Victory in court
Women in Green applaud the decision by Judge Tamar Bar Asher Tsaban who, yesterday, ruled that there is no prohibition to hold vigils in front of private homes of public figures. The Judge also fiercely reprimanded the police who, in 2008, detained and arrested many activists on their way to a vigil in front of the home of Gadi Shamni, to protest the administrative eviction orders he had signed against residents of Judea and Samaria.*
The judge’s decision is of great importance to protect the freedom of speech, especially for the national camp, very often persecuted.
The day will come please G-d when a brave judge will also have the courage to protest against the administrative eviction orders against rightwing Jews who think differently than the editors of “Jenin Jenin”.
A special yashar koach to the Yesha Human Rights organization and to Orit Struck who heads the organization, for their dedicated and infatigable work for the human rights of Jews in Judea and Samaria. Struck’s dedication improves democracy in Israel.
Women in Green decided to devote the compensation received in the victory of this case to the planting of trees for the redemption of stateland in Judea.
Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818 Nadia Matar 050-5500834
Women For Israel’s Tomorrow (Women in Green)
*Translation of part of the Hebrew arutz 7 article by Shimon Cohen with Women in Green comments:
The police will compensate rightwing activists, and among them Itamar Ben Gvir, Noam Federman, Daniella Weiss, Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover for being detained by the police in 2008 when they were planning on holding a vigil in front of the private house of Gadi Shamni.
In September 2008 a vigil was supposed to be held in front of the private house of Commander Gadi Shamni to protest the administrative eviction orders he had signed against residents of Judea and Samaria. The police detained the activists while they were on their way to Shamni’s house.
Women in Green remembers how our cars were followed by undercover policemen, who, then, at a certain junction, on the highway, jumped out of their car and detained us, preventing us from continuing to drive-forcing us to drive with them to the Modiin police station.
The activists were detained for many hours at the police station.
They filed a civil suit against the police , some of them represented by the Yesha Human rights organization headed by Orit Struck, claiming their basic human rights and freedom had been abused. The judge decided yesterday that the police had no right to detain the activists and ordered them to compensate the activists, each with 4700 nis.