{"id":2999,"date":"2011-08-04T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T10:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2011-08-24T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:23:35","slug":"counter-terrorism-bill-undemocratic-emergency-regulations-could-become-permanent-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2011\/08\/04\/counter-terrorism-bill-undemocratic-emergency-regulations-could-become-permanent-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Terrorism Bill: Undemocratic Emergency Regulations Could Become Permanent Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Wednesday, August 3) the Counter-Terrorism Bill passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum. The bill\u2019s purpose is to legally anchor the \u201cstate of emergency\u201d regulations regarding the fight against terrorism and turn them into permanent legislation. The bill\u2019s means: administrative detentions, control orders, and extremely broad definitions of \u201cterror organizations.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) recognizes the importance of protecting citizens against acts of indiscriminate violence; however, ACRI insists that Israel must fight terrorism in a manner that is consistent with the basic principles and fundamental rights that underlie its democratic character.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAccording to <strong>ACRI Attorney Lila Margalit<\/strong>, \u201cthe bill includes elements that may lead law-abiding individuals and organizations to be deemed as \u2018terrorists.\u2019 The bill grants the State draconian and unchecked authority to take extreme measures against individuals and organizations without due process, on the basis of suspicion alone, without guaranteeing the minimal right of self-defense in court. The bill therefore provides a huge opening for the State to intervene in the public debate and to limit the freedom of assembly and freedom of movement.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>To read ACRI\u2019s full position paper on the Counter-Terrorism Bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Counterterrorism-BillEng-3Aug2011.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSome of the harmful measures included in the bill:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n1. Administrative detention and control orders<br \/>\n2. Widespread use of secret evidence<br \/>\n3. Broad definition of \u201cterrorist organization,\u201d \u201cmember of a terrorist group,\u201d and \u201cact of terrorism\u201d<br \/>\n4. Anchoring draconian powers for investigating suspects in security offenses<br \/>\n5. Setting criminal offenses that violate freedom of speech in an unproportional way<br \/>\n6. Contradictions to basic principles of criminal law<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Wednesday, August 3) the Counter-Terrorism Bill passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum. The bill\u2019s purpose is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2011\/08\/04\/counter-terrorism-bill-undemocratic-emergency-regulations-could-become-permanent-law\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1,32],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-democratic-legislation","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-due-process","tag-in-the-knesset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}