An Israeli court has decided to deport a British freelance journalist
who had come to work in the occupied Palestinian territories. Ewa
Jasiewicz has been held in a detention centre since appealing a
decision to deny her entry into the West Bank and Gaza over two weeks
ago. Her lawyer said he will challenge the deportation order. Jasiewicz
had come to the occupied territories to write a story on the Israeli
Left for Britain's Red Pepper magazine.A Tel Aviv District Court had
ruled last week that the British journalist "is not a threat to Israeli
security" and should be released from detention, but the state
attorney's office appealed the decision.Jasiewicz lost the appeal on
Wednesday when the second judge felt that despite not posing a security
risk, her "naïvete" and "ideological beliefs" could be taken advantage
of. [more ]
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