In court hearing today, police filed a "secret appendix" and claimed existence of "agreements" with "leading representatives" of the protest against Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, none of which have so far been publicly disclosed.
The idea of secret "agreements" with unidentified "leading representatives" regarding the Freedom to Protest sounds like a bad script from a police state... but it works in the Israeli courts today...
Read the complete post: http://inproperinla.blogspot.co.il/2017/02/2017-02-19-urgent-request-forwarded-to.html
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OccupyTLV, February 19 - following a bizarre court hearing today in the Petah-Tikva Magistrate Court, where counsel for State and Police claimed the existence of confidential "agreements" with unidentified "leading representatives", which bind all protesters, Petah-Tikva police commander was urgently asked to disclose what such "agreements" were, and who "leading representatives" were...
Following is the complete inquiry:
February
19,
2017
Police
Commander Barak Mordechai
Petah-Tikvah
Station Commander, Israel Police
53
Stemperer Street, Petah Tikvah
By
email:
RE:
State of Israel v Zernik (38086-02-17) urgent demand for
disclosure of “agreements” with “leading representatives”
pertaining to protest against Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit
Your
response within
5 days is kindly requested. Time is of the essence!
Dear
Commander Mordechai:
Today,
hearing has been conducted in the Petah-Tikvah Magistrate Court in
the court file, referenced above, following my detention last night
during a silent protest, where I walked silently, with no singing and
no chanting.
In
such court hearing, counsel for the State of Israel and the Israel
Police stated on the record: “Leading representatives of the
protest reached through negotiation with the Police regarding ongoing
protest in an agreed upon location, which balances the right of the
participants to protest and the right of the residents for silence
and privacy. In contrast with such agreements in such case, the
suspect proceeded… while making noise into the heart of a
residential neighborhood...”
Obviously,
the claims regarding violation of “quite and privacy” are false.
I
also have no knowledge at all regarding “agreements” with
“leading representatives”… and obviously, one cannot be held
accountable for agreements, which he had not been party to and had no
knowledge of. Attorney Daniel Hacklai was the only one, who I had
known conducted contacts with Police in this matter. Even prior to
last night’s protest, I had approached him with a request for
clarifications regarding his contacts with Police, and he ha
dexplicitly denied that there had been any agreement, such as claimed
today in court regarding all the protesters (he had stated that there
had been such agreement only pertaining to individuals, relative to
whom temporary restraining orders were in effect for 14 days).
Following
today’s hearing I have also widely published the matter, and have
individually approached “leading representatives” and asked that
anybody who knew of such “agreements” let me and other protesters
know about them. “Leading representatives” have answered that
they had no knowledge of such agreements.
Therefore,
I herein demand that the Petah-Tikvah Police disclose to me and to
other protesters, what the “agreements” were that State of Israel
and Israel Police counsel referred to in court today, who the parties
to such “agreements” were, who “leading representatives”
were, the date of such “agreements”, the full details of such
“agreements”, and whether they were made in writing or only
verbally.
Truly,
Joseph
Zernik, PhD
Human
Rights Alert (NGO)
OccupyTLV
CC:
Association
for Civil Rights in
Israel,
Attorney
Daniel Hacklai, wide distribution
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