{"id":570,"date":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"570"},"modified":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"rights-groups-decry-decision-not-to-reissue-indictment-in-nilin-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2008\/11\/04\/rights-groups-decry-decision-not-to-reissue-indictment-in-nilin-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights Groups Decry Decision not to Reissue Indictment in Ni&#8217;lin Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lcass='pre'>Despite Court recommendation, indictment remains too light<\/div>\n<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; November 4, 2008 &#8211; The Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the IDF today informed the High Court of Justice that despite the Court&#8217;s recommendation to issue a more stringent indictment against Lt. Col. Omri Borberg and Staff Sgt. L. for shooting a handcuffed detainee with a rubber bullet at close range, he would not amend the original charge.<\/p>\n<p>In response, ACRI&#8217;s Chief Legal Counsel Attorney Dan Yakir issued the following statement, on behalf of the petitioning organizations &#8211; ACRI, B\u2019Tselem &#8211; The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, and  Yesh Din &#8211; Volunteers for Human Rights: <strong>&#8220;We are very distraught that despite the Justices&#8217; severe rebuke, the JAG did not change his position: namely, that the abuse of a handcuffed Palestinian detainee by a senior officer and shooting him is at most &#8216;inappropriate conduct.&#8217; Therefore, it is the Court&#8217;s responsible to determine what the appropriate response is for such grave actions.&#8221;  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For background information on the Ni&#8217;lin shooting case, visit the following Web page: <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=527\">https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=527<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='footnote'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Court recommendation, indictment remains too light JERUSALEM &#8211; November 4, 2008 &#8211; The Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2008\/11\/04\/rights-groups-decry-decision-not-to-reissue-indictment-in-nilin-case\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-the-occupied-territories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}