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This Arab Poet has been sentenced by Israeli Court to 5 Months in Prison for inciting violence through her Poems


Dareen Tatour
02 Aug 2018
Categories: International News

August 2, 2018

An Israeli Court has sentenced an Arab poet to 5 months in prison for incitement to violence over social media posts she made during a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Dareen Tatour’s case drew international attention after Israel put her under extended house arrest for her poems.

More than 150 literary figures, including authors Alice Walker and Naomi Klein, called for Tatour’s release.

Critics called her arrest a violation of freedom of expression.

In delivering its sentence Tuesday, Court stated that Tatour’s poem was inciting and that free expression has limits. She was also convicted of supporting a terror group. She stated that her poem was not a call to violence.

Israel stated that the two-year outburst of attacks that began in 2015 was fuelled by Palestinian incitement spread on social media.

Source Hindustan Times



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