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[IsraelTimes] Risk of COVID outbreak cited as reason for releasing on bail those on trial for Nizar Banat’s death; rights advocate says move ’illegal’ without judicial orderFourteen Paleostinian security force members on trial over the killing of prominent
The group formally asked for their release on Tuesday, which was granted by the prosecution on the condition that they attend their court hearings, a top Paleostinian security official who requested anonymity told AFP.
The risk of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...spreading in the West Bank prison where they were held was cited as grounds for their release in a letter seen by AFP, written by the prosecutor responsible for oversight of Paleostinian security forces, Abdelnasser Jarrar.
Banat’s widow slammed that justification and further charged that Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s administration could not credibly judge her husband’s accused killers.
"The murderer cannot be a judge," Jihan Banat told AFP, describing the decision to release the suspects on bail as "political."
"If the Paleostinian Authority is worried about the spread of the coronavirus, why doesn’t it release all the other prisoners held on charges?"
Banat died in June last year after security forces stormed his home in the flashpoint city of Hebron and dragged him away.
A post-mortem found he had been beaten on the head, chest, neck, legs and hands, with less than an hour elapsing between his arrest and his death.
The top Paleostinian prosecutor has accused the 14 security force members of beating Banat to death. The PA has promised accountability through a military trial in the West Bank.
The Independent Commission for Human Rights, a Paleostinian public body, said there were "irregularities throughout the release process."
"Preventing the spread of coronavirus does not justify departing from the rule of law," it said.
Majed al-Arouri, a Ramallah-based legal expert and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
advocate, told AFP that the release of the suspects without a judicial order was "illegal" and pointed to wider concerns about the PA’s handling of the case.
"The last six months have revealed an intentional procrastination in court procedures with regard to the people accused of killing Nizar Banat," Arouri said.
"There is real concern about the lack of legitimate court procedures in this case," he added.