\r\n\tThe arrest of journalist Majd Kayyal should worry Israelis.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tKayyal, a 23-year old journalist and activist and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was detained incommunicado for five days by Israel’s Shin Bet secret police without access to a lawyer, following a return from a professional trip to Lebanon.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tHaaretz editorial: At first, defense officials accused him of contact with a foreign agent and traveling to an enemy country, so extreme measures were taken.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tFor the five days Kayyal was detained he was not allowed to meet with his attorney, and his arrest was concealed under a sweeping gag order.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tOnly after intervention by human rights group Adalah and Haaretz was the gag order lifted; the suspicion of contact with a foreign agent vanished and Kayyal was released to house arrest.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe arrest and its concealment are serious matters.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tDetaining someone in secret sets a dangerous precedent, not to mention the discrimination.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tKayyal was arrested and interrogated secretly only because he was an Arab.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tFollowing criticism by The Electronic Intifada of how it handled Majd Kayyal’s case, The New York Times is forced to review its policies on observing Israeli gag orders censoring.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tMajd Kayyal was arrested and held incommunicado by Israel’s Shin Bet.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tMargaret Sullivan, The New York Times' public editor, has written a thoughtful and important piece criticizing the way the newspaper complied with an Israeli-imposed gag order on the case of Majd Kayyal.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-04-22 10:37:39","content_date_finish":"2014-04-22 10:37:39","content_date_register":"2014-04-22 10:37:39","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"122145","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1358221234","attach_date_register":"2014-04-22 10:37:45","attach_id":"118656","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"122","attach_img_height":"77","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"169","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 08:35:13","attach_title":"Arab journalist arrest ultimate false arrest","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]