[ 03/07/2011 - 10:03 AM ] LONDON, (PIC)-- British authorities on Friday banned lawyers’ visits to Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, until 11th July, said the law firm handling Salah’s case.
A press release issued by the Irvine Thanvi Natas solicitors (ITN) on Saturday said:
On Friday 1st July Mr. Raed Salah was transferred from an Immigration Detention Centre to a formal prison. No good reason for this transfer has been given.
The transfer to prison will significantly interfere with the preparation of Mr Salah's appeal against the Deportation Order. The deadline for Mr Salah to Appeal is the 6th July 2011. The prison have informed Mr. Salah's lawyer that his legal team will not be able to visit him until the 11th July, 5 days after the deadline is due to pass.
Mr Salah's solicitor, Tayab Ali of ITN Solicitors, said 'Mr Salah remains resolute and determined to challenge the Deportation Order. Despite the difficulties his transfer to prison poses for us, a formal Notice of Appeal against the Deportation Order was lodged on Friday. We are confident that the Order will be overturned.
The Home Secretary has grossly misjudged my client. In stark contrast to the false picture that has been painted, he is a man of peace, a widely respected leader who campaigns tirelessly for his people. By attempting to silence him in the United Kingdom, the Government is turning its back on the Palestinian people.
The merits of the Home Secretary's Order are now a matter for the Courts'.
Meanwhile, Zahi Nujaidat, lawyer and spokesman of the Islamic movement who flew to London on after the arrest of Sheikh Salah, said that he tried to visit Sheikh Salah on Saturday but was not allowed.
Nujaidat commented the actions of the British government describing them as “irrational” and reflect confusion because they were expecting Sheikh Salah to succumb to the deportation order but were surprised by his determination to fight the order in courts of law.
Sheikh Salah was first allowed into the country, he delivered a number of lectures, then he was arrested by immigration police, but was taken to a police station were suspected terrorists are usually held, then taken to an immigration detention centre and lastly moved to a formal prison making some commentators say that Sheikh Salah has become the UK’s first Palestinian political prisoner.
Knesset to discuss ‘Raed Salah law’ Sunday[ 03/07/2011 - 08:39 AM ]
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Knesset will discuss Sunday the Raed Salah law, which provides that anyone who supports “terrorism” would be banned from lecturing or visiting Israeli educational institutions without a permit from the Minister of Education.
Under the law, anyone accused of breaching Israeli security and entering educational institutions without a permit could serve 18 months in prison.
The law came after Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was banned from lecturing at Haifa University and allowed to do so at Tel Aviv University, which was opposed to by many members of the Israeli Knesset.
Salah and others have faced prior charges relating to support of Hamas and other Palestinian factions and thus harming Israeli security.
Meanwhile, a new poll by newspaper Israel Today found that most Israelis would like the present Israeli political scene to remain unchanged.
It says that no major changes are expected to be made in the Israeli presidency and the majorly right-wing Knesset should elections take place.
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