Peace Now demonstrators in the Ramat Aviv suburb of Tel Aviv called for the release of Faisal al-Husseini, the head of the Arab Studies Institute in East Jerusalem, who was arrested and placed under administrative detention last week on suspicion of Palestine Liberation Organization activism.
Husseini was arrested after addressing an earlier Peace Now gathering in Jerusalem, during which he called for an independent Palestinian state.
Saturday night’s demonstration, attended by an estimated 5,000 people, also called for an end to the practice of administrative detentions without trial.
Afterwards, a torchlight procession was conducted to the nearby home of Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers demanded his resignation, saying he was responsible for the administrative detention of some 3,000 Palestinians.
A small group of right-wing hecklers was dispersed by police without incident.
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