A poet in the dock as Israel hunts 'lone wolf' assailants online


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 Oct 2017

FILE PHOTO: Family and friends mourn around the fresh graves of Haya, Elad and Yossi, three members of the Salomon family who were killed in a stabbing attack in the Jewish settlement of Neve Tsuf, in the occupied West Bank, during their funeral in Modiin, Israel July 23, 2017 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

REINEH, Israel (Reuters) - A week after Dareen Tatour posted a poem on Facebook entitled "Resist, my people, resist," Israeli police came to her home in the middle of the night and arrested her.

The Arab-Israeli poet will hear next Monday whether she will be jailed on charges of incitement to violence and supporting a terrorist group. The average sentence in similar cases is nine months, though the maximum term she could face is five years.

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