{"id":701,"date":"2010-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"701"},"modified":"2011-02-14T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:56:22","slug":"aclu-responds-to-arrest-of-israeli-civil-liberties-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2010\/01\/16\/aclu-responds-to-arrest-of-israeli-civil-liberties-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Responds To Arrest Of Israeli Civil Liberties Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lcass='pre'>ACRI Head Hagai El-Ad Arrested For Peaceably Expressing His Views<\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Hagai El-Ad, the head of the Israeli civil liberties group Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), was arrested today for peaceably participating in a protest in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>ACRI, Israel&#8217;s oldest and largest human rights and civil liberties organization, works to build a just and democratic society that respects the equal rights of all its members.<\/p>\n<p>The following can be attributed to Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply concerned that one of Israel\u2019s top human rights leaders has been detained for peaceably expressing his views. Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a democratic society, and the ACLU stands in solidarity with groups around the world who work to protect this most important of rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we take no position on domestic issues within Israel, we wish to express our steadfast support for the right of Hagai El-Ad and our sister organization, ACRI, to protect and promote civil liberties and human rights in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='footnote'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACRI Head Hagai El-Ad Arrested For Peaceably Expressing His Views NEW YORK \u2013 Hagai El-Ad, the head of the Israeli &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2010\/01\/16\/aclu-responds-to-arrest-of-israeli-civil-liberties-leader\/\">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":[59,1,3,77],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-jerusalem","category-democracy-and-civil-liberties","category-freedom-of-expression","category-police-and-security-guards","tag-international-relations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}