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Discourse Raed Salah will begin serving his sentence: "Political persecution"

The head of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement has arrived at the Kishon Detention Center, where he will be imprisoned for 28 months for inciting terrorism. About 200 of his supporters came to the entrance of the place and encouraged him with shouts: "We will redeem al-Aqsa." Former MK Zahalka: "The right to speak is outlawed"

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Yoav Itiel

Sheikh Raed Salah returned to prison this morning (Sunday) and will begin serving a 28-month prison sentence at the Kishon Detention Center for inciting terrorism. This is after he had previously been imprisoned for rioting, incitement and supporting terrorism. About 200 people came to accompany him to the entrance of the detention center, chanting "In the spirit, in blood we redeemed al-Aqsa."

"Discourse Raed Salah is starting to want imprisonment in the wake of political persecution," he told Walla! NEWS Former MK Muhammad Bracha, Chairman of the High Monitoring Committee of the Arab Public in Israel. "It did not start with the Nationality Act but it is now reaching unprecedented new highs."

Former MK Jamal Zahalka said in a conversation with Walla! NEWS outside the Kishon detention center that "it is clear that this is another milestone in the political persecution. "The Islamic movement has been outlawed, now the right to speak is also outlawed."

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Last month, the Haifa District Court rejected the appeal filed by Salah's defense attorneys, Avigdor Feldman, Ramzi Katilat, Khaled Azberga, Omar Hamaisiya and Mustafa Suhil. The judges, Dr. Ron Shapira, Batina Tauber and Tamar Neot Perry, stressed that "this case is not a restriction of freedom of expression but a prevention and prohibition of incitement and support for a terrorist organization." The

remarks of Sheikh Salah followed the Temple Mount attack in July 2017 three terrorists in Umm al-Fahm. the blast killed Sergeant Major ram Staoi resident Maghar, and Sergeant Major Kamil Shinan resident Horfesh, both patrolmen Druze who served in the Temple Mount.

Saleh, himself the son of a former Israeli police patrol officer "He gave speeches to a large audience on various occasions: at the Friday prayers a week after the attack, at the funerals of the terrorists involved, which he called" martyrs, "and at the Friday prayers at Umm al-Fahm Stadium. Let the hand calm down, we will continue the struggle "," In the spirit in the blood we will redeem you "

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For incitement to terrorism: Sheikh Raed Salah was sent to 28 months in prison

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Salah denies knowing the incident was a terrorist attack. His defense attorneys claimed that his words were misinterpreted and deliberately distorted in Hebrew translation. Dozens of his supporters accompanied him to each of his legal hearings.

"The defendant has the right, like everyone else, to criticize the government and its leader. However, as a person, and especially as a leader in his community, he has no right to incite and support illegal acts of terrorism," the district court judges ruled. "The leader is aware that the public looking at him learns from his statements, as well as from his silence, about his support for a criminal act. Hence his responsibility, whether he explicitly said words of support or whether he remained silent, turned a blind eye and supported the act by refraining from condemning him."

Defense attorneys believe that the punishment imposed on Salah is severe and heavy, and claim that it comes against the background of pressure exerted by the security forces and the Israeli government.

Sheikh Salah, a 66-year-old resident of Umm al-Fahm, is one of the leaders of the religious leaders of the Muslims in Israel. He served as mayor of Umm al-Fahm for about 12 years and as the leader of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement from its inception in 1996 until it was outlawed in 2015. He was arrested in August 2018 and after about a year in custody was released under house arrest with electronic restraint.

MK Yosef Jabarin (joint list), who visited the discourse at his home last night, told Walla! NEWS that "anyone who believes in freedom of expression and human rights should oppose the persecution of the discourse Raed Salah. It is a political persecution that continues to deepen a trend of silencing the political and religious leadership of the Arab public that disguises itself as "security considerations."