US teenager freed on bail by Israeli court

15-year-old banned from Shuafat in East Jerusalem, ordered to pay $850 bail bond and complete 10 days house arrest.


Jerusalem -  A Palestinian-American teenager who activists say was subjected to a brutal beating by Israeli police has been freed on bail by a Jerusalem court pending an investigation.

Tariq Abu Khdeir, 15, was arrested on Thursday in Shuafat in occupied East Jerusalem, during the second day of violent clashes that followed the killing of his Palestinian cousin, who was also a teenager.

His lawyer said Abu Khdeir was ordered to pay $850 bail and complete 10 days of house arrest. He was also banned from entering Shuafat for 15 days. The bail bond, which was reduced from an initial $2,857, is returnable if the conditions are met.

Speaking after the hearing Abu Khdeir's father, Salah Abu Khdeir, told Al Jazeera there was no evidence.

"If my son was involved in throwing rocks, the Israelis would have kept him," he said. "If he was involved in the situation in Shuafat, they would have kept him."

A video released by Palestine TV showed three masked officers beating a handcuffed teenager and then dragging him away.

The boy could not be identified from the tape, but photographs released on Friday by Addameer, a local rights group, showed the badly beaten Abu Khdeir, with severe injuries to his face.
Abu Khdeir's father told Al Jazeera that the boy in the video was his son, and no other Palestinians have come forward to report similar injuries.

The boy's mother, Suha Abu Khdeir, told Al Jazeera her son was "not recognisable".

The US state department said it was "profoundly disturbed" by the video and demanded a full investigation. Abu Khdeir lives with his family in Florida, and was in Jerusalem on holiday.

An Israeli police spokesman said the videos were "edited," and accused Abu Khdeir of taking part in clashes with police.

The violence in Shuafat came after Abu Khdeir's cousin, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, was abducted and later found dead. Palestinians say he was killed in a revenge attack for the murder of three Jewish settlers last month.

His badly burned body was found in a Jerusalem forest earlier this week.

Tariq Abu Khdeir's family had been due to return to the US on July 16th.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ambode meets Tank Farm owners over Apapa gridlock

Image
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday met with tank farm owners in Apapa on how to resolve the perennial traffic jam in the area, vowing that the state has the capacity to make parties involved play by the rule. He said the State Government will take a second look at the truck park at Orile with a view to expanding it to have the capacity to accommodate 1000 trucks. The governor who spoke at an interactive session held at Lagos House, Ikeja, which also had other stakeholders in the petroleum storage industry in attendance, said the State Government is ready to embark on the project with inputs from the tank owners. “If the tankers must come in every day into Lagos, we must have a location for them but not on the bridge. As immediate solution, I will continue to use my task force to clean up the bridge. And I will also immediately look at the truck park at Orile and expand its capacity from 350 to 1000 trucks. “So for us to be able to accommodate you, you must come to
Read more

Stop wishing Buhari dead – Okowa tells Nigerians

Image
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has stated that the recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari from ill health deserved to be celebrated. Okowa said those ‎who have been wishing the president dead were only heartless because God had put them to shame by bringing the president back alive. The governor also called on Nigerians to promote what would unite the country rather than vices that would rather tear the nation apart. Okowa stated this on Sunday during an inter-denominational anniversary thanksgiving service to mark the 26th years of the creation of the state at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Asaba, the state capital. Okowa said, “We must be cautious of the statement we make because, the unity of this country is what all of us must work to sustain; we must learn to partner ourselves and engage in actions that will deepen our love for one another. “We thank God for the return of Mr. President to the country, death is not a thing that one can wish any one and the retu
Read more

Fani-Kayode speaks on meeting Fayose at PDP National Convention

Image
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has spoken about meeting Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, at Saturday’s PDP National Convention. Fani-Kayode and Fayose joined over 3,000 delegates at the Eagles Square in Abuja for the event. The non-elective convention was the first of such gathering, since the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstate the National Caretaker Committee (NCC) led by Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi. Fani-Kayode posted an image of the two men at the event on Twitter, and wrote: “Greek meets Greek, lion meets lion, warrior meets warrior…..God bless PDP!!!” Fayose unveiled his presidential campaign at the convention. The Governor, who is the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum stormed the venue of the party’s non-election National convention in an attire bearing his 2019 campaign ambition. He arrived the Eagles Square wearing his 2019 presidential campaign shirt and cap. He also had his entourage carrying his 2019 presidential
Read more