An Arab magistrate today pronounced sentence in the case of Ben Hilel who was assaulted in the Old City on October 28. This is the same case that Josiah Wedgwood questioned in Parliament. One assailant was sentenced to a fine of ten dollars or twenty days in prison and another was sentenced to six lashes.
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