Angie Zelter "persona non grata" - activists removed from courtroom

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

Dec. 31, 2002
International alert

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International human rights activist Angie Zelter "persona non grata" in Israel.
Rabbi and peace activists surrounding Zelter removed from courtroom
Adv. Leibowitz trying to get injunction of deportation - pending an appeal
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After the verdict in the Tel-Aviv District Court in which judge Ruth Eliaz 
upheld the deportation order, a large group of peace activists - among them 
Rabbi Arik Asherman - surrounded internationally recognized UK human 
rights activist Angie Zelter in an effort to prevent police from taking her and 
were themselves forcibly removed from the courtroom by security personnel. 
(Most of them know Angie personally from having picked olives together.) 

Yesterday, Zelter was already forcibly put on a plane, only to be returned 
because the pilot of Austrian Airlines refused to take her against her wish. 
She had come to Israel to testify in the trial of Frank Carmel, a Kiryat Arba 
settler who had assaulted her last year.

Zelter's lawyer, Adv. Shammai Leibowitz started proceedings to get an 
injunction from the Supreme Court to stop the the deportation pending an 
appeal.

More details from: 
Adv. Shammai Leibowitz ph: 03-5327772 mob: 064-414505 
Rabbi Arik Asherman 050-607034 


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