Suppressing dissent, Sharon government moves to indict Nadia Matar for insult
By: Israel Insider staff and partners
Published: July 8, 2005
In another lurch toward dictatorial suppression of dissent, the Sharon Government has decided to indict Women in Green protest leader Nadia Matar for "insulting a public official." She was served Thursday with this criminal indictment and was required to retain counsel to defend her against the charge.
Earlier in the year, Matar compared Jonathan Bassi, selected by Sharon to head the agency responsible for uprooting Jews from their homes, to the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Berlin during the Holocaust. She pointed out that Bassi was doing something even worse than the Judenrat during the Hitler regime, since those Jewish Leaders acted under duress of the Nazis, while Bassi voluntarily undertook his position to head this Agency.
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