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Salah Hamouri ( Arabic : صلاح حموري ; born 25 April 1985) is a French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association . His wife – who is French – has been barred since January 2016 from entering Israel or the Israeli-occupied West Bank to visit him. Hamouri was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Ovadia Yosef , founder of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel . After over 3 years' detention without trial, on the advice of his lawyer, while protesting his innocence he admitted culpability in a plea bargain in order to avoid a 14-year term of imprisonment, and was sentenced by a military tribunal to serve a 7 in jail. A number of committees have formed to protest against his treatment and affirm his innocence. Hamouri was released in exchange for the return of the Israeli POW Gilad Shalit in December 2011. He has been repeatedly placed under a regime of administrative detention – which Amnesty International described as "a major human rights violation" It has been claimed that he has been held in detention for a crime of opinion .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Salah Hamouri ( ), born on 25 April 1985 to a French mother and a Palestinian father, is a French sociology student at Bethlehem University . He is known for his 2005 indictment for planning to assassinate rabbi Ovadia Yosef and for being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . He pleaded guilty to the latter, in the hope of obtaining a lighter sentence, according to his lawyer. After a three-year administrative detention , following the advice of his lawyer, Leah Tsemel , he accepted to plea bargain to avoid to 14-year sentence and was sentenced to 7 years by a military tribunal. A number of committees constituted to protest against this sentence and to affirm his innocence.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Salah Hamouri ( ), born on 25 April 1985 to a French mother and a Palestinian father, is a French sociology student at Bethlehem University . He is known for his several confrontations with the Israelian justice and military systems, which started in 2005 with his indictment for "planning to assassinate rabbi Ovadia Yosef " and for "being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ". Despite claiming his innocence, he pleaded guilty to the latter, in the hope of obtaining a lighter sentence, according to his lawyer. After a three-year administrative detention , following the advice of his lawyer, Leah Tsemel , he accepted to plea bargain to avoid to 14-year sentence and was sentenced to 7 years by a military tribunal. A number of committees constituted to protest against this sentence and to affirm his innocence.
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French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri ( ) (born 25 April 1985) is a French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association .His wife – who is French – has been barred since January 2016 from entering Israel or the Israeli-occupied West Bank to visit him.Hamouri was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Ovadia Yosef , founder of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel .After over 3 years' detention without trial, on the advice of his lawyer, while protesting his innocence he admitted culpability in a plea bargain in order to avoid a 14-year term of imprisonment, and was sentenced by a military tribunal to serve a 7 in jail.A number of committees have formed to protest against his treatment and affirm his innocence.Hamouri was released in exchange for the return of the Israeli POW Gilad Shalit in December 2011.He has been repeatedly placed under a regime of administrative detention – which Amnesty International described as 'a major human rights violation' It has been claimed that he has been held in detention for a crime of opinion .
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french sociology student at bethlehem university
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french-palestinian lawyer and field researcher for the addameer prisoner support and human rights association
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