Amnesty to fourteen prisoners in Palestine was officially announced today on the occasion of the King’s birthday tomorrow.
All fourteen will be released tomorrow. They were sentenced after the anti-Jewish riots in 1929. Thirteen are Arabs and one is a Jew, Simha Hinkis, who was found guilty of shooting an Arab assailant in self-defense during the riots.
In addition to the fourteen who will be released tomorrow, the sentences of other Arabs found guilty in connection with the anti-Jewish riots, have been reduced. Many who were sentenced to life terms will be relased next year under today’s amnesty. Yousef Orphali, one of the two Jews sentenced in connection with the 1929 riots, will be released August 1, 1936.
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