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The Jerusalem Magistrates Court extended by a day, Thursday, the remand of a Jewish youth arrested, Wednesday evening, in connection with spraying teargas at Arab taxi drivers, according to the Honenu legal-aid organization, which is defending him. The police requested a ten-day extension but Judge Mordechai Burstein claimed their identification of the youthful suspect was problematic. The police plan to appeal ...

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended by five days on Tuesday the remand of Yitzhar resident Akiva Hacohen. Hacohen is one of several men who were given restraining orders by police last August and were forced to leave their homes. Since being deported he, his wife and their four children have been residing in an apartment in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood. He is now being accused by police of espionage, because he warned Jews residing in communities in Judea and Samaria of impending demolitions of homes. Hacohen’s wife, Ayelet Hashachar Hacohen, criticized the police and the State of Israel on Tuesday...

TUCSON — Two of three protesters arrested for trespassing on Fort Huachuca last month will have a detention hearing today. The Rev. Jerome Zawada, 70, and Frances Elizabeth Lamb, 69, were jailed Tuesday when a federal magistrate expressed concerns of their past histories of arrests during protests. The Franciscan from Las Vegas and the woman from Bend, Ore., were arrested Nov. 18 after they tried to enter the post, contending the Intelligence Center on the fort is the center of torture training. Mary Burton Riseley, 65, of Cliff, N.M., also was arrested on Nov. 18. However, she was not put...