{"id":15846,"date":"2018-09-21T05:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15846"},"modified":"2018-09-21T05:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:25:55","slug":"turkey-frees-prominent-opposition-lawmaker-berberoglu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15846","title":{"rendered":"Turkey frees prominent opposition lawmaker Berberoglu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1375406\/middle-east\" readability=\"94\">\n<p>\nAn Arab Israeli woman jailed for five months for incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization in online poems and other social media posts was released from prison on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\nDareen Tatour posted a video clip of herself reading her poem \u201cResist, my people, resist them,\u201d in October 2015, accompanied by pictures of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe posts on YouTube and Facebook came as a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence was erupting, including Palestinian knife attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 36-year-old Israeli citizen was sentenced in July.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe was released on Thursday due to time served before her conviction, she and a prison spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cFreedom is something so sweet that I can\u2019t even describe it,\u201d Tatour said after her release.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added that she planned to publish a collection of poems and a novel on her experience in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\nInternational writers\u2019 group PEN defended Tatour\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe was \u201cconvicted for doing what writers do every day \u2014 we use our words to peacefully challenge injustice,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe offending verses were quoted in Hebrew in the charge sheet, but according to an English translation on the Arabic literature site ArabLit, they contained the following:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cFor an Arab Palestine, I will not succumb to the \u2018peaceful solution,\u2019 Never lower my flags, Until I evict them from my land, Resist the settler\u2019s robbery, And follow the caravan of martyrs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nProsecutors said that on Oct. 4, 2015 she also quoted a statement by Islamic Jihad calling for \u201ccontinuation of the intifada in every part of the West Bank,\u201d alleging it showed her support for the outlawed militant group.<\/p>\n<p>\nTatour, from the Arab village of Reineh near Nazareth, was arrested a week later.<\/p>\n<p>\nArab Israelis are descendants of Palestinians who remained on their land following the creation of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey account for some 17.5 percent of Israel\u2019s population and largely support the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arab Israeli woman jailed for five months for incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization in online poems and other social media posts was released from prison on Thursday. Dareen Tatour posted a video clip of herself reading her poem \u201cResist, my people, resist them,\u201d in October 2015, accompanied by pictures of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}