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Salah Hamouri | |
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صلاح حموري | |
 Hamouri in 2012 (photo by Alain Bachellier) | |
| Born | 25 April 1985 Jerusalem |
| Nationality | Palestinian and French |
| Alma mater | Frères de Lasalle de Jérusalem, Bethlehem University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Salah Hamouri (Arabic: صلاح حموري) (born 25 April 1985)[1] is a French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.[2] His wife – who is French – has been barred since January 2016 from entering Israel or the Israeli-occupied West Bank to visit him.[2][3]
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,[4] 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.[3] A number of committees have formed to protest against his treatment and affirm his innocence.[3][5] Hamouri was released in exchange for the return of the Israeli POW Gilad Shalit in December 2011.[6]
He has been repeatedly placed under a regime of administrative detention – which Amnesty International described as "a major human rights violation"[7] It has been claimed that he has been held in detention for a crime of opinion.[8]
- ^ Lefort 2009.
- ^ a b AI: Feb 2018.
- ^ a b c Bastier 2017.
- ^ Misslin 2011.
- ^ Velilla 2010.
- ^ Reuters 2011.
- ^ Pilorget-Rezzouk 2018.
- ^ Dendoune 2015.