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| Israeli court to decide whether to expel US activist |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-08 19:12:45 |
JERUSALEM, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Tel Aviv District Court is to decide on Thursday whether to expel a US activist who has been under arrest for the past two weeks, the Ha'aretz daily reported.
As a member of the International Solidarity Movement in support of the Palestinians, New Yorker Anne Robinson-Peter was refused to enter the country at the Ben-Gurion International Airport two weeks ago for a 14-day visit, the report said.
The reason, the report said, is that she belongs to "a leftist organization," and "her guaranteed participation in hostile sabotage activity."
Robinson-Peter refused to hand over information about other members of the Israeli-Palestinian organization after she was questioned for some 10 hours by security agents at the airport, her attorney, Shamai Leibowitz, was quoted as saying.
She then has been put under arrest in the airport's holding cells reserved for people refused entry to the country by Immigration Polices.
As a graphic and video artist, 44-year-old Robinson-Peter planned to film a video about a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor traveling the country and to take part in demonstrations against the security fence.
After her lawyers appealed to the District Court on the day after her arrival, a temporary injunction was issued to prevent the authorities from deporting her. But the court refused to issue a release order for her.
"My client," said Leibowitz, "refuses to allow the state to impugn her with the stigma of being a terrorist who is involved in hostile terrorist activity, and she is disgusted by the way her activities on behalf of human rights are regarded as a so-called danger to the security of the state."
"She is fighting to prove that there is nothing wrong with her activities," Leibowitz added. Enditem |
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