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Mohammad Sabaaneh (30) was arrested on February 16 while returning from a work-related trip to Jordan. After taking part in an Amman conference of the Arab-American University in Jenin (a private institute that works in coordination with the PAs Ministry of Education and the California and Utah State Universities), where he works in the spokespersons office, Sabaaneh was captured by Israeli authorities at the Allenby border crossing and taken for interrogation.
The young cartoonist, whose drawings are regularly published in the Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper, was not allowed to see an attorney for the first three weeks of his interrogation, and so far, no official charges have been brought against him. The Ofer Military Court has prolonged his detention time after time, and an appeal against the latest addition to his detention was denied by the Military Appeals Court on Monday. Attorney Jawad Boulos, who was finally allowed to see Sabaaneh last week, told his family that he is doing well and that he is being broadly interrogated for allegedly aiding an illegal organization. Last week, soldiers raided the familys house and arrested Sabaanehs brother, and confiscated computers.
Since his arrest, local and international artists and journalists have been calling for Sabaanehs release, claiming that his only crime is criticizing the occupation with his pen and palate of colors. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Reporters without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists and several Israeli cartoonists and artists have already taken a stand against their colleagues prolonged detention without charge, and some demonstrated outside the courthouse during the latest detention hearing. Cartoons advocating his release were published on the Cartoon Movement website, and other works of art by Israeli artists were gathered as a form of petition in the Erev-Rav website. As Israeli artists we call for the release of Mohammad Sabaaneh, they wrote, his pictures of reality are not a crime reality itself is the crime, and the criminals are the ones who had made it so.
The independent prison of Palestine according to Sabaaneh
Members of the Sabaaneh family, who have not yet been allowed to see their son, also released a statement, calling on individuals and NGOs around the world to work hard to save our son and all prisoners from the Occupation prisons to end their suffering by raising their case in international forums to assure their safety and their legal right.
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shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)just another meaningless distraction from the much more worthwhile pro-Israel articles in Times of Israel. And the Gatestone Institute.