Israel imprisons man on spy charges
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January 31, 2011, Monday
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AN Israeli court sentenced an Israeli-Arab human rights activist to nine years in prison yesterday after convicting him last year of spying for the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.
Amir Makhoul had confessed to the spying charge as part of a plea bargain at Haifa District Court, which added a further year's suspended sentence to the nine years behind bars. The court dropped a separate charge carrying a longer sentence.
In passing sentence, the court said: "(The accused), an Israeli citizen, chose willingly and with cognizance, apparently due to nationalistic motives, to aid Israel's most bitter enemies."
Makhoul was director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Based Organizations, a network of Arab non governmental organizations in Israel. He agreed to a guilty plea in exchange for reduced charges, and to drop his complaints of maltreatment while under interrogation.
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Amir Makhoul had confessed to the spying charge as part of a plea bargain at Haifa District Court, which added a further year's suspended sentence to the nine years behind bars. The court dropped a separate charge carrying a longer sentence.
In passing sentence, the court said: "(The accused), an Israeli citizen, chose willingly and with cognizance, apparently due to nationalistic motives, to aid Israel's most bitter enemies."
Makhoul was director of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Based Organizations, a network of Arab non governmental organizations in Israel. He agreed to a guilty plea in exchange for reduced charges, and to drop his complaints of maltreatment while under interrogation.
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