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Israeli court slaps 9-year sentence on Palestinian child

Wednesday 14-December-2016

The Israeli Central Court in Occupied Jerusalem at noontime Wednesday sentenced the 17-year-old Palestinian minor Akram Tawfiq Ibrahim Abu Sarhan to nine years in prison and a fine of 10000 shekels.

Palestinian child Abu Sarhan a native of Jabal Al-Mukbir town in Occupied Jerusalem was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces on January 9 2016. An Israeli court convicted him of knife-wielding and of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.

Minor Abu Sarhan has been subjected to several inter-prison transfers and is currently locked up in the Megiddo jail.

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