Open letter of Protest

Dear Sir or Madam....

We write to appeal to you, motivated solely by respect for human rights.
We are gravely concerned by the information we recieved yesterday, that four
international peace activists had been arrested.

They are Tobias Karlsson, Stockholm Sweden, Fredrick Lind, Vanlose, Denmark,
Bill Capowski, NY and PA (State College), USA, Tariq Loubani, Canada.

The international peace activists were in a Palestinian village (Arrabony) at the request of the local villagers. They were engaged in and supporting nonviolent expression of protest over the illegal confiscation of Palestinian land. The peace activists were repeatedly harassed and threatened with physical violence and arrest by Israeli soldiers, armed guards and settlers, and at all times remained nonviolent.

We would ask of you to make inquiries to satisfy yourself personally that the conditions of detention and arrest are in coherence with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The international peace activists were all transferred to the Ariel settlement police station last night and put under arrest.

May we take the liberty of drawing to your attention to Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says " No one shall be subject to artibitary arrest, detention or exile".

We understand that the lawyer for the four, Yoni Leherman, will visit them this morning, but has already been told that the four will be issued deportation orders from the Ministry of Interior.

We therefore appeal to you to look into this case urgently, with a view to release.

Yours sincerely

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