Communist Member of the Knesset Mohammad Barakeh is again the target of the Israeli government

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Communist Member of the Knesset Mohammad Barakeh is again the target of the Israeli government

The Office of the Attorney General of the Israeli Government’s Counsel General Menachem Mazuz issued today (Tuesday, April 28, 2009) a decision to provide a new indictment against MK Mohammad Barakeh, Chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) and leading member of the Communist Party of Israel. The Attorney General targeting Barakeh, Mazuz, is the same who made the decision to close the investigation into the killers of 13 of young Arab people during the demonstrations in October 2000.

This time he is being persecuted for participating in a demonstration against the killing of Palestinians and the role of then-Security Minister Ehud Barak. The demonstration was held in July 2007 in Nazareth during which Barakeh is being accused of “interfering with police action” as they began brutalizing nonviolent demonstrators.

Barak was inside a hotel to meet with supporters of the Israeli Labor Party. The demonstration against him was for direct responsibility in the killing of 13 youth during the attacks on Palestinian demonstrations by police and security services in October 2000.

Barakeh said of the Israeli Attorney General’s latest decision to prosecute him, “This is a political decision of the first degree. The issue is not a personal issue, but a clear message of intimidation directed against the Arab masses and democratic forces in a desperate bid to deter the struggle for legitimate and necessary rights.”

Of the approval of the Israeli Attorney General to submit the indictments against him, Barakeh said, “It is a nail trim for political action on the Arab street. But our response is clear as when two months the intention was announced to provide a three-item indictment, one being for participating in a demonstration in Bil’in, I was the next day at the weekly demonstration in Bil’in Village. And tomorrow I shall be again with the broad masses of displaced persons in the village being destroyed to commemorate the plight of our people.”

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