Of the ten Moslems, three of them women, charged with the murder last September of Jamil el Bakhri, the editor of the Haifa Christian Arab paper “El Jamir”, during the conflict over the respective claims of the local Arab Moslems and Christians to the ownership of the Haifa Cemetery, two have been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment each, one to four years’ imprisonment, two to three years, one two years, and one woman to one year. Two women have been bound over in a sum of £ each to keep the peace, and one man has been acquitted.
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