#Israel #Palestine #Ofer #Lawsuit
Campaigners demanded that the UN interfere after the Israeli military court in Ofer charged Palestinian activist Issa Amro for demonstrating against the "illegal occupation" without a permit.
Campaigners demanded that the UN interfere after the Israeli military court in Ofer charged Palestinian activist Issa Amro for demonstrating against the "illegal occupation" without a permit.
On Wednesday morning, he was sentenced after 18 charges were brought against him in 2016. Mr. Isso was convicted of six of the offences, including demonstrating without a permit, obstructing and attacking an Israeli soldier.
Amnesty International has said it would defend him as “a prisoner of conscience” and he has previously been supported by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sentencing will take place on February 8.
Bernie Sander along with three U.S. Senators and 32 Congressmen wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to urge Israeli authorities to reconsider the charges against Amro in May 2017. Even that there are clear evidence against him as he violated the law.
On September 2, 2017, he was also arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) on charges of violating the new "electronic crimes" law. The actual offense was "denouncing on Facebook the arrest of a journalist calling for the resignation of PA head Mahmoud Abbas"
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