Court To Release Minor Teens from Jail after 23 Days
(IsraelNN.com) A Jerusalem district court judge has ordered the release of six girls under the age of 16 who have been held in jail for 23 days without charges, following their arrest at the Givat Haor outpost at the entrance to Beit El. They had refused to identify themselves, but police reached their parents' homes with a court order that the parents turn over pictures of their children. A seventh girl was released on Thursday after police succeeded in identifying her through her possessions.
The court said the issue now is the responsibility of the police and not the prison system. There was no explanation why it took 23 days for the police to bring a court order that the children's parents identify their children.
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(IsraelNN.com) Police appeared at homes of arrested minor teenage girls Thursday and said they had court orders demanding that parents turn over pictures of their jailed children. The girls, most of whom are ages 13 to 15, have refused to identify themselves because they refute the right of a secular court to judge them.
The legal rights organization Honenu said that the action reflects intense public pressure on the courts to release the children. "These young girls have succeeded in forcing the entire system and have proven that Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is not a crime." They were arrested for trying to establish a hilltop community near Beit El, north of Jerusalem.
The girls have told their parents that prison guards and police have harassed them in prison, forcing them to strip and depriving them of sleep in an effort to break their will not to identify themselves.
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