[GushShalom] No bail after all - please send your protest to the Minister

[Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)]

GUSH SHALOM  pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 www.gush-shalom.org

Dear friends.

Sorry for clogging your mailbox, but we just heard from Adv Shammai 
Leibowitz that the 8 imprisoned ISMers were NOT released on bail - 
the prosecution, representing the state, being adamant on depicting 
them as "great dangers to state security.".

background in our earlier mails:

https://mailman.gush-shalom.org/pipermail/gush-shalom-
intl/2003/000335.html

https://mailman.gush-shalom.org/pipermail/gush-shalom-
press/2003/000387.html

Here comes what you can do:

Send a protest to:

The Honorable Mr. Abraham Poraz
Minister of Interior
By Facsimile: 972-2-5666376

Dear Sir, 

Re: Imprisonment of 8 human rights activists

I have been informed that your office has ordered the arrest and 
deportation of eight international human rights activists, who are now 
incarcerated in Ariel Police Station, where they have been detained 
since July 10 without any charges filed against them. 

I kindlyrequest you to releasethe eighthuman rights activists 
fromtheir prison cell.I kindly request you to cancel any deportation 
proceedings being conducted against them. Fromthe information we 
have gathered from them and their lawyers,theywere arrested solely 
fordoing humanitarian work in the WestBank,notwithstanding the 
facttheywere not involved in any violent action. 

We are very much concerned about the imprisonment and deportation 
ofinternational humanitarian activists. It has been seen, time and 
again, that the presence of an international observer subdues, if only 
slightly, what is often the aggressive behavior of occupation soldiers 
and settlers against Palestinian civilians. 

Deporting non-violent human-rights activists can only give ammunition 
to those who seek to ridicule and undermine the State of Israel. 

I would kindly ask you to inform me of your decision, and will continue 
to follow developments regarding this case. 


yours faithfully

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copies: 
Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, by Fax 972-2-6274481

Important: 
After sending fax, confirm arrival of fax by the following numbers: 
Ministry of Interior - 972-2-6701402
Attorney General - 972-2-6466521




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