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Israel military court rejects appeal for jailed cartoonist
Published Monday 11/03/2013 (updated) 14/03/2013 14:59
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- An Israeli military court on Monday rejected an appeal to release jailed Palestinian cartoonist Muhammad Sabanah, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said.

A judge at Ofer military court ordered Sabanah to be detained for a further eight days to continue interrogations, Jawad Boulous told Ma'an.

The judge said that new elements in the case, namely the arrest of Sabanah's brother last week, necessitated further interrogation.

Boulous told Ma'an that Sabanah was brought to Ofer court from Jalameh detention center, where he had been held in solitary confinement.

Israeli forces detained Sabanah, 30, at the Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Feb. 16, without providing any explanation.

Sabanah's brother, Thamaer, was arrested on March 6 from his home near Jenin. Israeli soldiers also confiscated his laptop and cell phone, his wife told Ma'an.

Sabanah's cartoons are widespread in the Arab world. He is well-known for his criticism through his cartoons, which focus mainly on the Palestinian people's problems and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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1 ) Arnold / Canada
11/03/2013 18:50
If the Israeli authorities are holding him longer there is something more to this story than we are being told.
2 ) Gustavo / Argentina
11/03/2013 18:55
Here from a country that suffered state persecutions I send you all my solidarity and congratulations.Each day into a repressor jail is a measure of the fear and respect thy feel for your work.Mabruk laka!!
3 ) JoeUSA / USA
11/03/2013 20:40
#1 you are right. He is Palestinian, so the administrative detention laws apply. Nothing else....But you do not see this and you always think that Israel can never do anything evil or unethical. If there was no reason , you will create a reason in your mind so that the picture on the ground , fits somehow the beautiful image of Israel that you have in your little head...
4 ) Rami / Palestine
12/03/2013 08:37
"A judge at Ofer military court ordered Sabanah to be detained for a further eight days to continue interrogations"...aka: TORTURE. Apartheid is evident in that Jews are tried in civilian court with due process. Palestinians are tried in military court without due process and with 99% conviction. Israel's democracy is a farce. It is an ethnocentric racist apartheid state designed for bourgeois white European Jews and propped up by equally racist European and Americans.
5 ) Outsider / EU
12/03/2013 09:49
1) If there was more to this, he would be charged for something. Mohamed Othman was held for months like this, also in solitary confinement, and then released without charges. All it takes is a whisper in the ear of the judge and the detention is extended for another few weeks at a time.
6 ) JoeFattal / USA
12/03/2013 12:19
The man has a skill that defy the eye. You can see in a photo a Palestinian child throwing a rock at a tank, that will give you a sense of an oppressed person suffering from the occupation. In the contrary to a cartoonist that he will see the same image and will recreate the same image but with a little humorist approach but yet not hiding the same suffering and struggle behind his drawing. Remember bugs bunny in a boiling pot when said "what's cooking doc". Funny but sad.
7 ) carlos / usa
12/03/2013 18:00
israel is terror!
8 ) Zainab / UK
12/03/2013 23:12
Yet another violation of human rights by Israel; Article 9 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights states "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile". The violation in this case has occurred not because he is a Palestinian cartoonist, but because his cartoons have brought attention to both the Arab & now the wider world, the awful the reality suffered by Palestine & its people at the hands of their oppressor. This peaceful form of protest is powerful, too powerful for some!
9 ) Maureen / Australia
17/03/2013 19:27
Zionists pride themselves on their their technological skills.... marvelous how they have brought attention to the young Palestinian cartoonist. Now people world wide are able to see his cartoons using Zionist computer technology! 0
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