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Sentencing two Jerusalemite prisoners...extensions of arrest
August 18, 2015

The District court in the occupied city of Jerusalem sentenced on Tuesday two Jerusalemite prisoners for actual imprisonment. Al-Dameer organization lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud and lawyer Tarek Barghouth from the Ministry of Prisoners explained that the District court sentenced the prisoner Mohammad Bseiso for 13 months of actual imprisonment and the prisoner Mohammad Muna for 7 and a half months of actual imprisonment on charges of assaulting a settler. The court also imposed a 2500-NIS fine on each of them  "compensation to the settler" and a suspended probation of 7 months for three years. Bseiso and Muna are currently imprisoned in Jalboo' prison. They were arrested on 29/3/2015 and are residents of the Old City of Jerusalem. Lawyer Mahmoud added that a session of "reading indictments" was held for the prisoners Ahmad Ghazzawi and Ibrahim Ghazzawi and the judge extended the arrest of Mohammad Qirresh until 23/8/2015. He added that the Magistrate judge decided to release Thaer Abu Sbeih with a 500-NIS bail and house-arrest for 5 days.