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<p><strong>14 year old Islam Tamimi will spend another night in jail as a  military judge did not grant his release this morning. Later in the  morning, Bassam Tamimi, the Popular Committee leader of Nabi Saleh, was  briefly arrested in the village. Two 15 year old children were also  arrested. Currently, their where abouts are unknown. </strong></p>
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<p>Shackled and drowning in an adult prison uniform, 14 year old  Islam Tamimi was brought before a military court this morning for a  hearing on his detention. Exhausted and nervous, Tamimi sat before a  court room of soldiers. Tamimi was arrested during a night raid in the  village of Nabi Saleh early Sunday morning. After soldiers arrested the  child, they forced him to stand outside in the cold until 09h00 Sunday  morning. Soldiers also repeatedly threatened the child while he was in  their custody.</p>
<p>Upon hearing the news, defense lawyers for Tamimi contacted the army  and police to ask permission to meet with the child before his  investigation. Interrogators responded that access would be granted to  the child’s lawyers and parents, however this never happened. Tamimi was  taken for investigation at 09h30 on Sunday morning and only at 14h00 in  the afternoon did his lawyers gain access to their client. The  investigation of the child, who was taken from his bed in the middle of  night, forced to stand in the cold and received threats from fully armed  soldiers, took eight hours in total.</p>
<p>In the courthouse this morning, after explaining the arrest and  interrogation of the child, Tamimi’s defense lawyer pleaded with the  judge to view the child as a scared and traumatized 14 year old.  However, the army prosecutor said that the child was considered  ‘extremely dangerous’ and for that reason must stay in jail for the  entire period of his trial. The army prosecutor also informed the court  that the army had ’secret’ evidence against the child which the defense  was not entitled to view. The military judge presiding over the hearing  asked the prosecutor why the child was not given proper legal recourse  nor allowed access to his lawyer. The army prosecutor responded simply  “it was authorized.” The judge pushed furthur and asked, “it was  authorized by whom?” Again, the answer from the army was short and  Kafkaesque , “it was authorized by the person who authorizes.”</p>
<p>With that the child was taken back to jail from the courtroom. He  will have another hearing tomorrow morning to determine if he will stay  in jail during the entire process of his trial.</p>
<p>One hour after Isalm Tamimi was taken back to his jail cell, the  popular committee leader of Nabi Saleh, Basama Tamimi, was arrested in  the village along with two 15 year old boys. Tamimi was taken in for  questioning, most likely in reference to the testimony unethically  gleaned from Isalm Tamimi. After two hours Bassam was released however,  at the time of this writing the two 15 year old children remain in  custody. According to Tamimi, he was beaten while in Israeli custody.  The location of the two arrested children currently unknown.</p>
<p>Villagers fear that in the coming days there will be another round of  night raids and arrests of the village’s youth. The strategy that  Israel is using against Nabi Saleh is very similar to the one employed  against the village of Bil’in. The popular committee leader of Bil’in,  Abdallah Abu Rahmah has been in jail for over 13 months on charges of  incitement. His conviction was based on testimonies of three 14 year old  children from the village.</p>
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