The Supreme Court reduces the sentence against a boy…extensions of arrest
The Israeli Supreme Court approved the appeal submitted by Al-Dameer organization lawyer, Mohammad Mahmoud, regarding the prison sentence his 17-year old client Mohammad Nammari received. The lawyer explained that the judge reduced the prison sentence imposed on the child Mohammad Nammari from 16 months to 12 months. Mohammad was arrested by the Musta’ribeen (undercover police unit) in October 2013 after he left his school and accused him of throwing stones at settlers’ vehicles and endangering their lives. He was them detained and interrogated for two weeks and was then released on condition of open house-arrest. After spending 14 months under house-arrest, he turned himself in to serve his actual prison sentence. Extensions of arrest On the other hand, lawyer Mahmoud said that the Magistrate judge extended the arrest of Mohammad Za’atra until 10/9/2015 and Mahmoud Hadyeh until 16/9/2015 while the District judge extended the arrest of Ahmad Abu Sharkh until 12/10/2015 after a “witnesses hearing session” was held for him. The District judge refused the appeal submitted regarding extending the arrest of 4 Jerusalemite activists (Samer Abu Eisheh, Adnan Najib, Abdullah Hamad “Sinjlawi” and Wahid Marazeeq) and approved the Magistrate judge’s decision to extend their arrest until next Sunday. Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer explained that the Magistrate judge extended the arrest of Yazan Jaber until Thursday (10/9/2015) to submit an indictment against him. The judge decided to release the child Abdel Karim Haddad with a 500-NIS bail, house-arrest for 5 days and a third-party bail of 5 thousand NIS.
