14 Sheikhs from Occupied Golan Boycott Israeli Courts, Start Open Sit-in

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Courts of the Israeli occupation issued a decision to postpone conducting the trail of 16 sheikhs of the Muslim al- Muwahideen community to July 12th after the boycott of 14 sheikhs.The Israeli courts issued warrants to arrest and bring the Arab sheikhs to the court on charges of visiting the motherland, Syria, as a religious delegation that included people from Golan and the occupied Palestinian territories between 2007 – 2010.The National Committee for Communications in the occupied Arab territories, of which the sheikhs are members, held an urgent session before the court and decided that the charged sheikhs should not attend the court, instead they will head to the north of Palestine in an open sit-in.Hundreds of people expressed solidarity with the sheikhs and participated in the sit-in where they delivered speeches that condemned the decision taken by the occupation courts.The Committee issued a statement accusing the occupation of being unjust and of violating the human and religious rights of the Muslims./129