Mon, 08 Feb 2010
An Australian woman, who was arrested in the West Bank, is being held in an Israeli jail, says her attorney.
Twenty-two-year-old Bridgette Chappell's Israeli lawyer Omer Shatz told ABC on Monday that she was arrested in a pre-dawn raid on her home.
Shatz says Chappell's detention is part of a campaign by the Israeli regime to silence pro-Palestinian foreigners.
Chappell was active in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) a pro-Palestinian organization committed to resisting Israel's occupation of the West Bank.
She was sharing an ISM apartment with two other activists, a Spanish woman and an American man, Ryan Olander. According to Shatz, about 12 soldiers broke down the door in the dead of night and burst in with M16 rifles.
The lawyer went on to say that Israel usually deports detained foreign activists within 24 hours by intimidating them into signing a paper stating that they are willing to leave immediately. Otherwise, they will face months of jail time. In order to avoid incarceration, most of the detainees sign the paper.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118171§ionid=351020202.
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