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April 8, 2010

Israeli Journalist Under House Arrest for Exposing Illegal Assassinations
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In Israel and the Occupied Territories, an Israeli journalist has been
revealed to be under house arrest since December for allegedly leaking
classified military documents on unlawful assassinations in the occupied
West Bank. Twenty-three-year-old Anat Kam is accused of copying the
documents and giving them to an Israeli newspaper during her time in the
Israeli military. The documents reportedly detail how the Israeli army
continued assassinating alleged Palestinian militants in violation of a
court ruling declaring the killings illegal. Kam is set to go on trial
later this month on charges of treason and espionage. An Israeli court
has imposed a gag order barring media coverage of the case.



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