Urgent Action update: Bedouin leader rejects conditional release

Prominent Bedouin leader Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi’s early release was scheduled on 15 May 2019. However, on that day Israeli police requested from the Israel Prison Service to include two conditions for release. First, a pledge from Sheikh Sayyah not to live in his village of al-‘Araqib in the Naqab/Negev, in southern Israel. Second, to remain under a night-time house arrest regime at his family’s house in the city of Rahat until October 2019, when his original prison sentence ends. The first condition was dropped following his lawyer’s intervention, and Sheikh Sayyah refused the second condition, and, therefore, has been not released from prison.

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PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 JULY 2019

Please write urgently in your own words or using the template letter included in English, Hebrew or Arabic to:

President

Reuven Rivlin 

President of the State of Israel,

Office of the President

3 Hanassi Street

Jerusalem 92188, Israel 

Fax : +972 2566 4838 

Email : public@president.gov.il

president@president.gov.il

Salutation: Dear Mr. President

And copies to:

Attorney General  

Avichai Mandelblit 

Ministry of Justice 

29 Salah al-Din Street Jerusalem 91010, 

Israel 

Fax: +972 2 530 3367

Salutation: Dear Attorney General

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.

His Excellency MR MARK REGEV Embassy of Israel 2 Palace Green Kensington W8 4QB 020 7957 9500 Fax 020 7957 9555 www.embassyofisrael.co.uk

Please check with your section before sending appeals after the above date.