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Hundreds of emails were sent as part of the fight to the ombudsman, calling for an appeal against the release committee's decision to shorten Muhammad Abu Ghanem's sentence. He was convicted along with some of his brothers of killing his sister Rim in 2006. "What message are we sending to girls and women at risk?"


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Women's organizations against early release for prisoner who killed his sister: "Demand justice"

Hundreds of emails were sent as part of the fight to the ombudsman, calling for an appeal against the release committee's decision to shorten Muhammad Abu Ghanem's sentence. He was convicted along with some of his brothers of killing his sister Rim in 2006. "What message are we sending to girls and women at risk?"

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Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 11:41

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Women's organizations launched a campaign yesterday (Monday) calling on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to appeal the decision of the Parole Board to shorten the imprisonment of a Lod resident convicted of killing his sister, Rim Abu Ghanem.

As part of the campaign, the ombudsman has been sent e-mails from about 200 people so far, calling on him to act to reverse the decision and return the prisoner, Muhammad Abu Ghanem, to prison.



"What message are we sending to girls and women at risk?" The campaign page said. "It is easy to murder you, we will not punish your murderers and we will not be able to protect you.

Next time they ask why women do not complain about violence, and why they do not trust the justice system, remember the face of Rim Abu Ghanem. "The



page also states that" women do not complain because the system does not do its job, does not hear the voices of victims, and there is no one May he reach out to them and do them justice, in their lives and in their deaths. "

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"What is the message we are sending to girls and women at risk?".

Prison inmate (Photo: Yotam Ronen)

Abu Ghanem and three of his brothers killed their sister, Rim, in 2006 because she ran away from home with her lover - even though her family forced her to marry another man.

One of the brothers, a pediatrician by profession, provided a sedative that the others injected into their sister’s drink.

When she fell asleep, they led her in the trunk of their car to an orchard near Rehovot.

After a while she woke up, and the brothers demanded that she thank them for violating the dignity of the family.

She was strangled to death and thrown into a well.



The brothers were convicted under a plea deal of manslaughter, not murder.

Three of them, including Muhammad, were sentenced to twenty years in prison each.

The doctor's brother was sentenced to 12 years in prison because he was not present at the time of the murder, and it was not clear to what extent he was complicit in his brother's decision to kill the nurse.

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An inmate convicted of killing his sister and sentenced to 20 years in prison will be released early

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Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem (Photo: Olivier Fitoussi, Flash 90)

Last week it was unveiled at Walla!

NEWS that the parole board has decided to shorten Muhammad Abu Ghanem's sentence by five and a half years.

The commission believed, according to the reports submitted to it, that Abu Ghanem had indeed come a long way rehabilitatively, noting that "today he understands the cultural and emotional motives that led him and his brother to commit the offenses."

Abu Ghanem's defense attorney, Adv. Moshe Palmor

Finally, the committee decided that Abu Ghanem could now be released for two years in a treatment hostel on boarding school conditions, and that even then he would remain under supervision until the completion of his original prison term.

A spokesman for the committee's spokesman opposed Abu Ghanem's release, claiming that he did not complete the rehabilitation process at the prison. However, after the committee rejected his position, he did not seek to delay his release to allow the state to appeal. As a result, Abu Ghanem was released from prison released.



IWN and organizations "women against violence", "Altufula" and No'am (Arab women in the middle) yesterday launched a mass campaign, calls to send requests to the Legal Advisor to make the decision. "we can not accept a killer's early release," reads the page The campaign. "We were not able to save Rim from the murderers, the justice system did not demand justice for her, the police behaved contemptuously in the management of the investigation file, the sentences were light, and now one of the killers is being released early?".

About 370 emails sent to Mandelblit: "Demands justice"

As of this writing, some 370 emails have been sent through the page, urging him to appeal or appeal against the decision of the Parole Board, as well as to take action to increase the punishment for women murderers.

"We demand justice, demand to live in security," it read.



Abu Ghanem's defense attorney, Adv. Moshe Palmor, responded that “the parole board has decided to shorten Abu Ghanem's sentence in light of his long and effective rehabilitation campaign.

Professional bodies such as the Domestic Violence Committee and the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority believed that the early release of the prisoner and the continued treatment of the hostel would contribute most significantly to reducing the prisoner's danger, which was also underestimated.



" Execution, "added Adv. Palmor.

"There is an important public interest in that prisoners who have undergone a significant procedure in prison will continue the rehabilitation process even outside it under the guidance of the professional bodies."

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