The sentence of Halil Ibrahim Asmar. an Arab of Jaffa, was confirmed yesterday by the Court of Appeal Asman was sentenced to three years imprisonment for leading a mob and inciting them to an attack on Tel Aviv.
Sentences of two Yemenite of Rehoboth were reduced to six months. The Yemenites had originally been sentenced to serve one year terms on the charge of keeping their revolvers during the riots last August.
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