Israel would be legalizing a “war crime” if it enacts a proposed law to indefinitely jail two Muslim fundamentalist leaders from Lebanon, according to a New York-based human rights group. Human Rights Watch said the planned legislation could also be used to imprison others for their political beliefs.
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