Israel sentences Palestinian teen to 11 years in prison

An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian teenage boy to eleven years in prison on the allegation of carrying out a stabbing attack in the southern sector of the occupied West Bank.

News ID: 442850

Date: 06 January 2019 - 08:08

RNA - The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs said in a statement that the Ofer military court passed the verdict on 19-year-old Daoud Manasra on Friday, and demanded that he pay a compensation of 270,000 shekels ($73,000) or serve three additional years of imprisonment in lieu of it.

Moreover, the court ordered the Palestinian teenage boy to pay a fine of 10,000 shekels ($3,000).

The committee condemned the sentence and the exorbitant financial compensation imposed on Manasra and other political prisoners in Israeli detention centers.

The Israeli military judiciary has sentenced Palestinian prisoner Daoud Manasra to 11 years in prison and a fine of 270,000 shekels ($72,000). pic.twitter.com/1Cxb7jvEXj

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