Islamic leader slams police, wants all charges against him dropped.
By JPOST.COM STAFFraed salah outside court 248.88(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimksi )
Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement’s northern branch, was acquitted Tuesday by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in connection with a 2007 riot in Jerusalem’s Old City.Salah said he believed his acquittal to be the obvious outcome of his case.“The trial described the truth. The police should be blamed, and if true justice is sought, all of the four remaining cases against me should be closed,” he said.Salah was charged with assaulting a policeman during the February 2007riot. The incident took place near the Dung Gate, when Salah and fourother Israeli Arabs were protesting Israeli archeological excavationsthat were being conducted next to the Mughrabi Gate.According to the indictment, Salah waved a Syrian flag, spat in theface of a Border Police officer and yelled, “You are racists andmurderers! You have no respect!”Salah and his cohorts also allegedly attempted to force their way into the excavation site.
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