Israel’s magistrate court in Haifa city decided to defer issuing a verdict on a request filed by the defense of Sheikh Ra’ed Salah asking it to reconsider his detention until the end of legal proceedings.
According to his lawyer Khaled Zabarqa the magistrate court fixed next Tuesday March 6 as a date to study the request.
“The file pertaining to the detention of Sheikh Salah is not based on proper legal procedures as the public prosecution is stalling over presenting witnesses to the court who were absent from a previous hearing” Zabarqa told Quds Press on Monday.
“The court listened to the request filed by the defense team of Sheikh Salah which asserted the need for his release even if this could happen under restricted conditions and lead to his house arrest in his city Umm al-Fahm” the lawyer stated.
“We affirmed during the hearing the systematic procrastination used by the prosecution in order to prolong the detention of Sheikh Salah as well as the legal proceedings of the file and we has stressed the Israeli prosecution’s attempt to hide a great deal of the investigation material not to mention its reluctance to present witnesses in this case” he added.
