Hassan Jabareen, lawyer and the general director and founder of Adalah, with MK Barakeh in court, Tel-Aviv, March 23, 2014 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Barakeh on the verdict: “This was a political trial”

The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Sunday convicted Hadash chairman and leading Communist Party member, MK Muhammad Barakeh for attacking a right-wing demonstrator during a protest eight years ago. The lawmaker was acquitted of the more serious charge of striking a soldier from an undercover unit during another demonstration against the West Bank security barrier…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration against occupation in Tel-Aviv (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Court decision in MK Barakeh’s political trial on next Sunday

On Sunday 23 March 2014 at 10:30 am, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court will issue its decision in the political case against leading Communist Party of Israel member, MK Mohammed Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash). The indictment against MK Barakeh, filed in 2009, included four different charges, in…

The occupation army against MK Barakeh, Bil'in 2005 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Film footage shown at trial confirms that MK Barakeh is innocent

The Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court held last Wednesday (October 2) an evidentiary hearing in the criminal trial of Communist Member of Knesset (MK) Mohammed Barakeh, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash/Jabha). During the hearing, the court heard two witnesses for the defense. The witnesses gave their testimonies regarding charges made against…

Extreme right wing MKs wants Dov Khenin on trial

Extreme right wing MK Miri Regev (Likud / Yisrael Beytenu) called Wednesday for criminal charges to be filed against three Knesset Members who exposed the “Prisoner X” affair in the Knesset plenum, thus using their parliamentary immunity to circumvent a gag order imposed by the Chief Military Censor. Regev asked the Attorney General and the…

Criminal trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh begins

The trial of Knesset Member (MK) Mohammed Barakeh, head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (“Hadash” or “Jabha”), begins yesterday, Wednesday (April 18) in the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court. The trial opened with two days of evidentiary and witness hearings to be held on Wednesday 18 April and Sunday 22 April 2012. The…