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Two Jerusalemite female prisoners released under house arrest

Friday 29-September-2017

The Israeli Magistrate court approved on Thursday the release of two Jerusalemite female prisoners Hanadi al-Halwani and Khadija Khweis under house arrest.

The Israeli court ruled that al-Halwani and Khweis to be released and placed under house arrest for 14 days.

The court also imposed a fine of 5000 shekels on both of them.

The two instructors at al-Aqsa Mosque were also denied access into the holy shrine for a whole month and prevented from travelling abroad or entering the West Bank for six months.

The two female prisoners were arrested on account of maintaining vigil at al-Aqsa Mosque the third holiest site in Islam.

Both instructors had been subjected to several other arrests by the Israeli occupation forces and were banned from Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque for varying periods.

There are currently 64 female prisoners in Israel’s HaSharon prison including 23 from Occupied Jerusalem.

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