Two minors detained by GSS, 15-year-old prevented from meeting with attorney
Sunday, May 18, 2014, 21:59 Two additional youths have been detained by the GSS and the Central Unit of the Yehuda and Shomron Police on suspicion of involvement with a “Price Tag” incident. Both of them, one of them only 15 years old, are being prevented from meeting with an attorney. On Monday, May 19 the detainees’ families will protest in front of the courthouse. On the afternoon of Sunday, May 18 the GSS and the Central Unit of the Yehuda and Shomron Police detained two minors, one a resident of the Har Hevron region and the other a Jerusalem resident. Honenu attorney Adi Kedar, who attempted to make contact with the detainees, discovered that police detectives have banned them – both minors – from meeting with an attorney. Honenu will file an appeal on the draconian ban and request a urgent deliberation on their case. These two most recent detainees join three youths, two of them minors, being held in remand by the GSS. One 16-year-old and one 18-year-old were detained on Sunday, May 11; one 16-year-old was detained on Wednesday, May 14. Only the 16-year-old detained on May 11 has been allowed to meet with an attorney. On Thursday, May 15 a deliberation took place at the Jerusalem District Court and the court ruled that 16-year-old detained on Wednesday, May 14 would be allowed to meet with an attorney on Friday, May 16 at 14:00, however immediately after his ban on meeting with an attorney ended it was renewed. A ban on meeting with an attorney is an extreme measure normally reserved for the most dangerous of terrorists. On Monday, May 19 the five detainees are scheduled to be brought to deliberations on their cases. Outside of the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court relatives and friends of the detainees plan to protest and demand that they be allowed to meet with an attorney. A gag order has been placed on the details of the investigation, however the court has permitted publication that the six detainees, five of whom are in remand, have been detained on suspicion of involvement with a “Price Tag” incident. “Arabs detained on similar charges have not been interrogated by the GSS and certainly have not had the basic right of legal counsel taken from them,” said a friend of the detainees. “The [legal] system is in complete hysterics because of pressure from the media, and the ones paying the price are Jewish youth.” On Sunday, May 18 Member of Knesset Moshe Feiglin
Photo: Member of Knesset Moshe Feiglin (Likud-Beiteinu)
Photo credit: Olivia Fitusi