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Arab Lawyers Urge Demonstrations on Behalf of Palestinians Held in Switzer Land

May 6, 1969
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An organization of Arab lawyers has called for massive demonstrations throughout the Arab world next Saturday to demand “Swiss neutrality” in the case of three Palestinian terrorists arrested after their fatal attack on an El Al airliner at Zurich Airport last Dec. 26. The Arab Lawyers Federation called for “silent protest marches” against Swiss embassies in all Arab capitals. They said the terrorists, two men and a woman, were in the 14th day of a hunger strike in the Zurich jail. They face a charge of murder as a result of the death of El Al pilot trainee Yoram Peres who died in a Swiss hospital of wounds he received in the attack. A fourth Arab terrorist was gunned down by an El Al guard.

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