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AI: Drop Baseless Charges against Palestinian Rights Defender

AI: Drop Baseless Charges against Palestinian Rights Defender
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"Israeli" regime authorities must drop all charges against Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who is facing prison time for his internationally recognized peaceful activism against the "Israeli" entity's illegal settlements in the city of al-Khalil [Hebron], Amnesty International said Tuesday.

AI: Drop Baseless Charges against Palestinian Rights Defender

Issa Amro, the founder of the al-Khalil-based Youth against Settlements campaign group is scheduled to appear before an "Israeli" court in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday 23 November over 18 charges.

"The deluge of charges against Issa Amro does not stand up to any scrutiny," said Amnesty's Magdalena Mughrabi. "If he is convicted, we will consider Issa Amro a prisoner of conscience," she added.

Mughrabi further noted, "As well as dropping the baseless and politically motivated charges against Issa Amro, the ‘Israeli' authorities should investigate his allegations of beatings in custody, and the physical and verbal abuse hurled at him by settlers, the army and the police. People who speak out about human rights abuses should be protected, not assaulted and harassed."

The "Israeli" apartheid regime's military claimed that Amro had "taken part in riots, attacks on soldiers, calls to violence, and prevented security forces from doing their work."

However, Amro denies ever using violence against the entity's forces; "On the contrary, I am a person who advocates non-violence," he said.

He stressed that his trial is a political decision by the apartheid Tel Aviv regime to target his human rights work.

There are reportedly more than 6,500 Palestinians held at "Israeli" jails.

Hundreds of the inmates had apparently been incarcerated under the practice of the so-called "administrative detention", which is a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in "Israeli" detention facilities without trial or charge.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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