ISRAEL: MARWAN BARGHOUTI HEAD OF PALESTINIAN FATAH FACTION APPEARS AT REMAND HEARING

Record ID: 400185

  • Title: ISRAEL: MARWAN BARGHOUTI HEAD OF PALESTINIAN FATAH FACTION APPEARS AT REMAND HEARING
  • Date: 22nd November 2002
  • Summary: (U3) TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 21, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. MV FATAH LEADER MARWAN BARGHOUTI HANDCUFFED AND BEING BROUGHT INTO COURT TRYING TO RAISE HIS HANDS AND ARGUING IN ARABIC WITH AN ISRAELI COURT PATRON 0.29 2. MV SECURITY TRYING TO CALM DOWN COURT PATRONS 0.40 3. WIDE VIEW OF INTERIOR OF COURT 0.44 4. SLV BARGHOUTI SEATED AND AR
  • Embargoed: 7th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA6YRLLWVJJ41JDDEXDUR24IQQD
  • Story Text: Marwan Barghouti, head of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction
    in the West Bank, has appeared at a remand hearing in Tel Aviv
    as Israel continues to attempt to prosecute him for attacks on
    Israelis during the Palestinian uprising, or Intifada.

    Barghouti's trial began on September 5.

    Israel has charged Barghouti with murder, aiding and
    abetting murder, promoting murder, attempted murder, criminal
    conspiracy, and being an active member of a terrorist
    organisation.

    Court security attempted to prevent the popular
    Palestinian leader from turning the court into a pulpit on
    Thursday (November 21, 2002) as Barghouti raised his arms and
    launched into what has become a trademark speech at the
    beginning of each court appearance.

    Thursday's appearance was the fourth since the start of
    Barghouti's trial on September 5. Barghouti was arrested in
    April after Israeli forces took control of the West Bank city
    of Ramallah and surrounded his home.

    Thursday's appearance came just hours after a Palestinian
    suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem, killing
    11 Israelis and wounding 50. Many of the victims were
    children.

    Protesters outside the court in Tel Aviv on Thursday
    accused Barghouti of murdering Israelis.

    Israel blames Barghouti and the Palestinian Authority for
    ongoing violence against Israel. Barghouti's lawyers say the
    trial is unconstitutional and politically motivated.


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