Palestinian Lawmaker Sentenced to 15 Months in Jail
  • 8 years ago
An Israeli military court sentenced leftist Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar to 15 months in jail on Monday. Jarrar, 52 years old, was detained in her home in the West Bank city of Ramallah last April on charges of incitement to violence and membership in an illegal organization. In 2006 Jarrar was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and was pointed as the head of the Prisoners Committee. Five out of 132 Palestinian lawmakers are held in Israeli jails, two of them in administrative detention. Noor Harazeen reports from Gaza for teleSUR