Israel’s continues to jail university student representatives
| Student council members in Israeli prison 26.09.08 |  |
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Awais was a fourth year student at the Ramallah area university’s Faculty of Engineering Information Technology Department. Israeli forces arrested the young man at a checkpoint in the West Bank between eastern Nablus’ Atara Village and Birzeit. Three other student council members are in Israeli prisons including Fadi Hammad, former student body president. Israeli forces currently hold an estimated 11,000 Palestinians in its prisons. |
Ramallah / PNN – The Israeli military court in Beer Aseeba sentenced Birzeit University’s student body president to four years in prison. Abdullah Awais’ sentence was suspended to one year and an estimated 2,000 shekel fine.