A 22-year-old Jewish youth, Zvi Saul Tabori, was sentenced today by a military court here to seven years imprisonment for possessing a revolver and several rounds of ammunition. He had been under arrest for about two months.
The youth, who declined the assistance of a lawyer, made the following statement to the court after hearing the verdict, “I confess the possession of arms, but do not consider that this was illegal and without any logical explanation. You have no right to try me. I do not recognize your sentence. I demand the status of a war prisoner. The sole authority which I recognize in issuing permits to carry arms is the ‘Fighters for National Liberation’ (the illegal extremist organization known as ‘the Stern Group’), which strives to return to the Jewish people its lawful status among nations prior to the establishment of a Jewish State.”
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