{"id":654,"date":"2009-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"654"},"modified":"2011-02-14T21:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:39:38","slug":"acri-to-a-g-drop-charges-against-gaza-war-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2009\/06\/23\/acri-to-a-g-drop-charges-against-gaza-war-demonstrators\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRI to A-G: Drop Charges Against Gaza War Demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lcass='pre'>Indictments were hastily filed against six demonstrators who participated in a peaceful protest in Beersheva.<\/div>\n<p>ACRI intervened before Israel&#8217;s Attorney-General, Menahem Mazuz, demanding he drop the charges against six Israelis who participated in a protest demonstration in Beersheva during Operation Cast Lead on January 14. The six demonstrators, who were among a crowd of several dozen protesters, were arrested during the demonstration and a day later indictments were hastily filed against them. One demonstrator, who had participated in a different protest 10 days earlier, was kept in custody and later discharged to &#8220;town arrest&#8221; at his sister&#8217;s home in the Galilee. Three demonstrators were released following their interrogation, while the two others were released on condition they do not enter the premises of Beersheva for 14 days. <\/p>\n<p>In his letter to Mazuz frrom June 7, ACRI&#8217;s Chief Legal Counsel, Dan Yakir, states that the demonstration was in fact a peaceful vigil, condemning acts of violence at the hands of the IDF and Hamas. Though police dispersed the crowd on the grounds that they had not received the necessary permit, a protest gathering of this scale does not actually necessitate obtaining a permit. &#8220;It is most unfortunate that this is not a rare incident of the police unnecessarily harassing demonstrators&#8221;, writes Yakir. &#8220;Time and time again we have brought this matter to your attention, including steps taken [unlawfully by the security forces] during Operation Cast Lead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class='footnote'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indictments were hastily filed against six demonstrators who participated in a peaceful protest in Beersheva. ACRI intervened before Israel&#8217;s Attorney-General, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2009\/06\/23\/acri-to-a-g-drop-charges-against-gaza-war-demonstrators\/\">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":[1,3,69,5],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-freedom-of-expression","category-gaza-strip","category-the-occupied-territories","tag-legal-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}