Nazi war crime suspect John Demjanjuk appealed to the High Court of Justice last Friday against the decision by a lower court to hold him in custody until the end of legal proceedings against him.
The Jerusalem District Court ruled that Demjanjuk would remain in detention, after the state charged him last month with murdering thousands of Jews at the Treblinka death camp in Poland during World War II.
Demjanjuk, 66, was extradited from the U.S. last February. He has continuously argued that he was not the Nazi criminal known as “Ivan the Terrible,” and that he had never been to Treblinka. In the petition filed Friday at the High Court, his lawyer, Mark O’Connor, said he could not present the full arguments against his client’s continued detention, because he was not presented with all the evidence against Demjanjuk. The appeal will probably be heard this week.
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