Israeli police raided a bookstore owned by famous Palestinians in Jerusalem and detained two owners after using Google Translate to check the shop’s stock.
Rights groups demanded immediate release of men, describing the arrests on Sunday as part of a wider campaign to harass Palestinian intellectuals.
After breaking the educational bookstore stores, Mahmud Mona and his nephew Ahmed Mona were accused of “violating public discipline” overnight. Pictures on social media show that the books of the books reach the floor, and the choice of others that was seized.
He was scheduled to appear in court in Jerusalem on Monday morning. The crowd of protesters gathered out in support. Read a play card, “Not for censorship, not booking.”
“They took every book that contained the Palestinian flag,” a man of men told Heritz. He shared a photo of the books that were seized by the police and later returned.
They included the wall and piece of the artist Banksi through the American academic Nam Chomsky and Israeli scholar Alan Peppei, and the victory of love by Canadian film maker and photographer Afzal Hooda.
The owner of the owner said that the police also reviewed the copy of the English language of Hearts, which contained pictures of the robbers, and told the owners that it had formed provocation.
All the legalism related to freedom of expression must be approved by the Attorney General’s office, but the police can take arrests on their authority on suspicion of violating a public order.
The educational bookstore is an East Jerusalem Establishment with three branches, two on Salahuddin Street, the main shopping road in East Jerusalem, which was raided on Sunday.
The third is in the American Colony, which is the Jerusalem Hotel, which has been famous for decades of popular leaders and celebrities, Mikhail Gorbachio and Tony Blair from Bob Dylan, Uma Thorman and Georgio Armani.
Rights group B’Sttelem called for the immediate release of the two men, and the end of the persecution of Palestinian intellectuals.
The group said in a statement, “Including the harassment and arrest of intellectuals in an attempt to crush the Palestinian people.”
“In the cultural scene of Jerusalem, celebrities, Mahmud and Ahmad Mona, run the educational bookstore. Israel should immediately release them and stop oppressing Palestinian intellectuals.
Last year, police arrested and questioned Nadira Shalab-Kiwakian, a leading legal scholar of Palestinians based at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Israeli Palestinian citizens also have widespread detention, who have publicly criticized the war in Gaza.
