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http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=6/19/01&
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Panel passes bill allowing inciting violence against terror suspect
Ha'aretz Knesset Correspondent
By Gideon Alon
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee yesterday passed the
second and third reading of a bill that includes an article that
decriminalizes inciting a lynch mob to against a suspected terrorist.
The article is part of a bill being prepared by the committee on incitement
to violence in Israel. It generally seeks more severe punishment for such
incitement, setting a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit, Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein, and
State Prosecutor Edna Arbel tried to dissuade the committee's MKs from
passing the bill, to no avail.
Sheetrit said a bill that legalizes attacking a suspected member of a
terrorist organization "is a very dangerous measure that undermines democracy
and basic human rights in our country. It accomodates 'field trials' ... and
even a lynching or sentencing to death by a mob that suspects someone is a
terrorist."
Five of the MKs supporting the bill were Shaul Yahalom (National Religious
Party), Nissim Zeev (Shas), Yuval Steinitz (Likud), Yosef Lapid (Shinui) and
Yael Dayan (Labor). Against it were the chairman of the committee, Ophir
Pines-Paz (Labor), Nehama Ronen (Center) and Anat Maor (Meretz).
Sheetrit said he intends to propose removing this article when the bill is
brought to the Knesset plenum for a vote in the next few days. Sheetrit,
Rubinstein and Arbel did manage to change one article in the bill making it
possible to charge those suspected of inciting violence.
Sheetrit said the original wording of the article prevented authorities from
indicting suspects of incitement - because police had to prove "with near
certainty" that the incitement would have led to an act of violence. The
article was changed to "with reasonable possibility.
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