Tibi revealed: an Australian citizen committed suicide in prison under a false identity

An unusual event occurred this morning (Tuesday), when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the editorial committee, and asked them to silence a story that might be harmful to Israel. The story - already published in several major news sites – was removed from the air, and only remained on the blogs and foreign news sites.

However during the speech of the Minister of Justice Yaakov Neeman in the Knesset, MK Ahmed Tibi decided to blow up the affair, as he turned to the Minister in question: "It's been published today that an inmate holding Australian citizenship has committed suicide in one of the Israeli jails under a different identity. He was registered under an identity different to his original identity. Do you know about the case? Do you accept the fact that an Australian citizen committed suicide in prison, under a false identity, and without posting the fact that he was a prisoner and detained in a prison in Israel? "He asked.

Meretz Chairman MK Zahava Galon, joined the celebration, but with another claim: "Mr. Minister, I want to hear your view about the fact that journalists volunteer to censor information at the request of the authorities. Do you think it is right that the Prime Minister's Office summoned the Commission editors to prevent publication of an episode that could embarrass Israel? Can secret arrests be authorized for the sake of 'security needs'?

"I want to tell that at the time I revealed the existence of the interrogation facility 1391. I petitioned to the Supreme Court and they ruled in that unmistakably that you cannot hold people in detention in secret and that it would never happen again in Israel, and now we hear that a country that claims to be a democracy country, journalists cooperate with the government without a court directive that there is a definite danger of harm in the state security, that unnamed detainees commit suicide and no one knows about them. How does it go together with democracy and the rule of proper law amendment?

The last curious person was MK Dov Henin, who asked: "Do Israeli prisons have prisoners who their arrest is under secret? What are the legal control mechanisms on such imprisonment and non-publication of this? What are the parliamentary control mechanisms on such imprisonment and non-publication of this? How will the public be able to review these arrests? "

Neeman replied to Hanin: "As I said, I have no ability to answer the questions as this issue is not part of my office. It is something which should be checked. There is no doubt that if the allegations are true, it should be checked."

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