Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 20:01 Under signs reading "Hilltop youths have right too", approximately 400 demonstrators have gathered opposite the residence of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Ramat HaHayal neighborhood of Tel Aviv, in protest of the remand conditions of three minors detained by the GSS. The minors are being prevented from meeting with their attorneys and their condition is unknown. Large numbers of police forces are blocking access to the Justice Minister's residence.
The father of one of the minors spoke at the protest. The mother of one of the other minors spoke to Justice Minister Shaked as one mother to another: "I am a mother, and you are a mother. I ask of you Minister Shaked, this is a matter of crucial importance. I implore you that my son meet with an attorney, that our children be given their full right to meet with an attorney. This is what I ask of you, this is what my heart asks. I ask that it enter your heart as well. That is my entire request.
"Even terrorists receive an attorney, even Demjanjuk received an attorney, but our children, good children who are fighting for this Land, don't?? I beseech you. Intervene so that they will receive an attorney."
Michael Fuah, a social activist also spoke: "Minister Shaked, you have started something new. [reference to the political party Shaked recently co-founded] Start it tonight! Already once with the Duma case they lied to you and told you that there was no torture. Don't let them lie to you again. Stop the injustice. They [the GSS] torture people before they check alibis, before they interrogate, they do anything in order to get a confession. The Jewish Department of the GSS must be dismantled. Take your hands off of the youths. We won't sleep until they are released. We won't let anyone harm them," added Fuah.
In related news, on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 1, the GSS extended until Friday, January 4, the order preventing the three minors detained on Sunday, December 30 from meeting with an attorney. The minors have been interrogated, in violation of the Youth Law without the presence of their parents, and their remand has been extended until Sunday, January 6. The detained minors have not met with either an attorney or their parents since their detention.
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