‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Je from on (#6MC93)
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's legal team and employer speak out after arrest over podcast comments
The arrest and interrogation of a leading Palestinian legal scholar based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem marks a new threat to civil liberties in Israel, her legal team and employer have said.
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was detained by police on the afternoon of 17 April over comments made on a podcast more than a month earlier and held overnight in conditions her lawyers described as terrible" and designed to humiliate.
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