9-Months imprisonment for Freedom-Fighter
Local Editor, 15-01-2010
Senior Palestinian cleric Sheikh Raed Salah has been sentenced 9 months in prison for protesting illegal Zionist construction plans near Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sheikh Salah, a well-known critic of the occupation and an outspoken cleric, rallied against the ongoing excavations near Al-Aqsa Mosque, leading to his arrest on the hands of the Zionist police in an attempt to silence his efforts.
In August 2007, Sheikh Salah was indicted for "inciting racism and violence" for calling for a "third Intifada" to defend the holy site. He was arrested in October during similar demonstrations at Al-Aqsa, following reports that Jewish extremists were attempting to attack the mosque, the third holiest site for Muslims.
Senior Palestinian cleric Sheikh Raed Salah has been sentenced 9 months in prison for protesting illegal Zionist construction plans near Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Sheikh Salah, a well-known critic of the occupation and an outspoken cleric, rallied against the ongoing excavations near Al-Aqsa Mosque, leading to his arrest on the hands of the Zionist police in an attempt to silence his efforts.
In August 2007, Sheikh Salah was indicted for "inciting racism and violence" for calling for a "third Intifada" to defend the holy site. He was arrested in October during similar demonstrations at Al-Aqsa, following reports that Jewish extremists were attempting to attack the mosque, the third holiest site for Muslims.
Seikh Salah was consequently banned from the area where clashes between angry demonstrators and occupation troops had already given Tel Aviv enough headaches.
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Wednesday sentenced Salah to nine months in jail for the 2007 incident, beginning next month. He received an additional suspended sentence of six months and has until February 28 to appeal the decision.
Salah previously served a two-year jail sentence after sending money to needy Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, funds that Zionist prosecutors claimed to have been used by Palestinian resistance fighters.
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