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Free Palestinian Journalist Jared Malsin Let Them Know We are Watching
Submitted by Mark Johnson on January 16, 2010 - 3:29pm.
Jared Malsin, Chief English Editor of Ma'an News Agency is being detained at Ben Gurion airport pending deportation. The deportation is being challenged in Israeli courts, and with a hearing scheduled for Sunday, January 17th, in Tel Aviv Central Court (though we still don’t know the time). His luggage has been released. He was permitted a brief phone call Friday afternoon during a visit by US consular staff. Castro Daoud, his lawyer, was given access to Jared by the Israeli authorities yesterday.
Jared’s friend, Faith Rowold, was deported at 6am Friday morning and is now in Prague.
More details about the case and the Israeli authorities’ reasons for denying Jared entry are in the attached press release and on the Ma’an News Agency website at http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=254021 and http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=253864.
These are being updating as often as possible, though things have been confusing at times, so there’s been some delay. There is contact with lawyers, human rights NGOs, consulates/embassies/representatives offices, media NGOs, and the international press.
If possible, if people could do any/all of the following it would help:
-Continue to contact Congressional representatives/the State Department and express concern that Israel continues to deny Jared entry because of his activities as a journalist and his political views, that he is being held incommunicado and that he was denied access to his lawyer today. Ask them to remain apprised of Jared’s case and express their concerns to the Israeli authorities. For those not in the US, contact your MPs/representatives and the foreign ministry.
-Continue to contact the Israeli embassy in Washington DC and Israeli consulates by phone, e-mail, and fax. For contact info see http://www.israelemb.org/contact_us.html (embassy), and http://www.israelemb.org/israeli-consulate-in-usa.htm (consulates). For those not in the US, contact the Israeli embassy in your country.
-Please forward widely and continue to spread the word.
good job Israel
Israel has full right to deny or accept the request to pass its borders. Israel can say “no” to anybody if it choses to, especially to those who spit in its face and do anything possible to taint it with lies, fabrications and distorsions of facts.
Jared Malsin may have never comitted a traffic violation but this does not secure him ANY kind of automaitc right to enter Israel.
Let’s see how many Israeli Jews who have never committed any traffic violation would be allowed into Saudi Arabia with the purpose of demonizing it. For that matter, let’s see ANYBODY being let into Saudi Arabia with the same purpose.
Let this creep go into Gaza through one of the tunnels
As a sovereign country,
As a sovereign country, Israel has the right to determine who can and who cannot enter the country.
Many other countries refuse entry to certain people for various reasons, as is their right. When, say, the United States refuses entry to somebody, we never hear complaints.
Let this creep go into Gaza through one of the tunnels!
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