Tali Fahima released to house arrest

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/531260.html

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"Pro-Palestinian activist Tali Fahima will be released from administrative detention and placed under house arrest, the Tel Aviv District Court ruled on Monday.
Judge Zvi Gurfinkel delayed the implementation of the court decision for 24 hours, in order to allow the state to appeal the ruling. Fahima will be confined to her mother's home in Kiryat Gat. She will be required to post bail of NIS 15,000."

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"It appears that reading from a document that falls into the hands of activists in a terror organization, and is translated by the accused, does not present a level of risk requiring her to be detained behind bars until the end of proceedings," Judge Gurfinkel ruled.

The judge referred to charges that Fahima, an Israeli Jew who had gone to live with members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin, interpreted an Israel Defense Forces aerial photograph the organization had obtained. The photograph showed the homes of wanted individuals in the city. Prosecutors argue Fahima thus helped members of the militant group escape arrest."

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"Fahima was arrested nearly six months ago. Her defense attorney, Samadar Ben-Natan argues that the state has reversed itself. When Fahima was arrested, Ben-Natan states, investigative bodies said there was not enough evidence for a standard indictment. Fahima was thus placed under administrative detention. However, the attorney argues that the state had the material in the current indictment before it decided to make use of administrative detention

[Englander]

1. From the archives;

Peace activist held as 'danger to Israel'

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
Tuesday September 7, 2004
The Guardian

Tali Fahima served her time in the Israeli army, voted for Ariel Sharon as prime minister and took it as given that her country was struggling for survival against terrorism.

Then last year, the 29-year-old legal secretary from Tel Aviv picked up a newspaper and read about Zakariya Zubeidi, the Jenin leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the group responsible for killing hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and shootings. Ms Fahima decided she would ask Mr Zubeidi why he killed Jews.

On Sunday, the military placed Ms Fahima in detention without trial using a law applied to thousands of Palestinians over the past four years of intifada but rarely to Israelis.

The authorities declined to reveal the precise reasons but the defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, who signed the order, described her as "a clear and present danger to all Israelis".

But Ms Fahima's lawyers and friends accuse the government of using draconian security laws to silence her because she has broken a taboo against befriending and explaining the enemy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1298770,00.html


Tali Fahima, an Israeli Jewish woman aged 28, was arrested on 9 August 2004 at a West Bank roadblock. The Israeli authorities claim she poses a security threat because of her contacts with one of the leaders of a Palestinian armed group in Jenin. However, they did not provide any evidence to substantiate their claims to Tali Fahima or her lawyer and have not charged her with any offence. After her arrest she was interrogated by the Israeli Security Agency for 28 days during which she was subjected to torture and ill-treatment. On 5 September she was placed under administrative detention without charge or trial for a period of four months. On 5 December she was taken back into interrogation and on 26 December she was charged. She is now awaiting trial.

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/iot_detention_previous


http://www.freetalifahima.org/eng.php?lang=en

[newyorican]

2. Democracies don't do things like this...

and continue to be democracies.