Thursday, September 17, 2020, 14:39 On Tuesday, September 15, several hours before Amiram Ben Uliel was supposed to have his weekly meeting with his wife, Orian, and five-year-old daughter at the Eshel Prison, the Prison Service informed them that it was canceled. Amiram is not permitted to have a phone and does not have the opportunity to call his family. The weekly 30-minute visits with his wife and daughter, behind glass, are the only contact he has with the world outside of the prison. The Prison Service decided to cancel the visit because Amiram has been sentenced, and therefore, they claim, he is entitled to monthly, not weekly, visits. Amiram has been held in solitary confinement for almost five years.
Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir, who is assisting Amiram with arranging his prison conditions: "There is no limit to the callousness towards and abuse of Amiram. It is an embarrassment and a disgrace that in a country which prides itself on the citizens' rights of terrorists, of the murderers of Jewish children, of the arch-terrorists who carry out attacks, Amiram is treated so cruelly. The time has come for the Prison Service, the police, the courts, and the government of Israel to understand that Amiram Ben Uliel is entitled to equal rights, to human rights. It is time to treat him like a human being."
Amiram Ben Uliel's wife, Orian, together with his family, friends, supporters and Honenu, have launched a crowd funding campaign to finance an appeal to the Supreme Court in order to prove his innocence. As part of the launch, in an emotional video, Orian, with her daughter, who until now has not been seen in any photographs or videos, describes Amiram's detention, levels criticism at the court, talks about the isolation of her husband in prison, decries the injustice of the case, and announces the campaign to prove the innocence of her husband. To that end, a dedicated team of first-rate attorneys is being formed for the specific purpose of appealing to the Supreme Court.
The Hebrew video is here, and please see the post of this item on the website, here, for a version with English subtitles.
