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Israel - Whistle-blower gets four and a half years, has 45 days to appeal

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the four-and-a-half-year jail sentence that a Tel Aviv court passed yesterday on online journalist Anat Kam for copying classified military documents while she was doing obligatory service with the Israel Defence Forces and for passing them to a journalist with the Tel Aviv-based daily Haaretz. The court also imposed a suspended sentence of an additional 18 months in prison. Kam has 45 days to appeal. “This severe sentence violates the right to the (...)

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