Israeli Torture Witness Jailed on Trumped-Up Charges
Israeli Torture Witness Jailed on Trumped-Up Charges
by I.P. Dailey, UnPromisedLand channel
STOUGHTON, WI – August 16, 2012. An Israeli magistrate court in Haifa extended the detention of Guy Shamir who has been held without bail since last Friday. The complaint against him alleges that he threatened the children of Esperanza Alon, a family court judge in Haifa. Each day this week the police extended his detention for an additional 24 hours. Concurrently the state prosecutor’s office announced its intent to indict. Now the prosecution is asking to keep Shamir in jail without bail until the end of the trial.
According to the complaint, the incident arose during a telephone conversation between Alon’s secretary and Shamir on August 6th – four days before Shamir’s arrest. The indictment states that Alon’s secretary called Shamir directly instead of contacting his attorney to make sure that Shamir would clearly receive the judge's ruling against him on the custody of his children. Shamir allegedly said in response, "I don’t care about the judge’s ruling. Tell her to mind her own children . . . ." At that point the secretary hung up the phone before Shamir could finish his response.
Attorney Raz Misgav, who was appointed yesterday to represent Shamir, points out that the complaint which the police filed against Shamir is only made by the judge’s secretary. Alon herself did not make a complaint against him at all. Furthermore, the 4-day wait to arrest Shamir is not consistent with seriousness of the allegation - as if the charges were in fact trumped-up.
"I tell you, I saw a lot of wacky claims in my life,” said Misgav. “This claim is the most surreal thing that I have seen so far. He never threatened anyone. The call was cut short by the secretary. Moreover, I certainly will recommend my client to submit a counterclaim against the police and state prosecutor with the Appellate Court. They arrested him, imprison him without bail and prosecute him over this? It is something completely unrealistic which I have never seen in my career.”
"It is important to note that my client signed affidavits as a witness for lawsuits pending in the United States. These lawsuits allege the Israeli judicial system hunts down divorced fathers exactly as they are doing to my client right now."
On July 12th police raided the home of David Weisskopf, a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits. They confiscated his documents related to his lawsuit against Israeli officials alleging he and other divorced fathers are torture victims. The police confiscated several documents including witness affidavits and reference to another lawsuit pending in New Jersey against the same Israeli officials. Since then, they have been using those confiscated documents to harass plaintiffs and witnesses in these lawsuits. According to an injunction requested today in the New Jersey lawsuit, the Israeli officials are even trying to bully a rabbi into allowing that plaintiff’s body to be desecrated “after his death”. Now Guy Shamir, a divorced father of two, is the latest victimized विटनेस.
“They are using our children as pawns to attack us,” says Weisskopf. “In Shamir’s case they are retaliating by trying to sever all contact between him and his children. I know Guy; he is one of the most loving & gentle fathers I have ever met. Their extreme tactics will only galvanize us in our fight for our children’s basic human rights.”
Social Justice activists have announced they will continue protesting against the arrest of Guy Shamir. They hope that by raising public awareness the government will take notice and clean up corruption that currently permeates the Israeli judicial and welfare systems.
משגב: "זו התביעה ההזויה ביותר שראיתי עד כה"
ע''י אליק מאור
גיא שמיר, פעיל מחאה, נעצר ומואשם על ידי פרקליטות חיפה כי איים על שופטת בית המשפט לענייני משפחה. השופטת לא התלוננה. מזכירתה כן. הבוקר יובא שמיר לדיון בדרישת הפרקליטות לעוצרו עד תום הליכים. פרקליטו ייעץ היום למרשו להגיש מייד בג"ץ נגד משטרת ישראל והפרקליטות על מעצר ותביעת שווא.
[מאמר שלם בעברית נמצא כאן: http://megafon-news.co.il/asys/archives/73306]
Israeli Fathers Allege Torture in Lawsuits
HOUSTON,
TX -
April 26, 2012. A federal court in
Houston this week held its first hearing on a $20 million lawsuit alleging
systematic torture upon divorced fathers in the Israeli judicial and welfare
systems. This is one of four lawsuits
which Israeli fathers have filed in the United States and Europe. Legal consultants are also helping the
Israeli fathers prepare to file lawsuits in Canada. David Weisskopf, the plaintiff in the Houston
case, describes the Israeli environment as an ‘open season’ on divorced
fathers.
“Men are literally dying,” says
Weisskopf. He points out how 45 froze to
death on the “tropical” streets in Israel last winter and that the suicide rate
among divorced fathers is more than 250 times higher than the overall Israeli
population. “These statistics are by far
the world’s worst and are thanks to all the lobbying, training and ongoing consultation from the defendants.”
In an unprecedented move, the Houston court
is allowing Weisskopf to add parties to his lawsuit regardless of their
citizenship. This opens the door for
Israeli fathers to join the American lawsuit as well as immigrant fathers who
have endured torture in the Israeli judiciary or welfare system. The diversity of plaintiffs will show how
widespread and systematic the torture has become in the Israeli judicial and
welfare systems.
Nearly two dozen Israeli bureaucrats and
their donors have been named as defendants between the four lawsuits –
including Israel’s minister of welfare, minister of justice and even a Supreme
Court judge. However, the plaintiffs may
have a right to add more defendants which then implicates more Israeli
bureaucrats and their American donors.
Though all the current defendants have been
summoned in the American lawsuits, some of them have not yet filed their
appearances. Israeli defendants who fail
to appear in American courts may have default judgments entered against them. Plaintiffs may then petition Israeli courts
to enforce default foreign judgments.
Legal consultants assisting these fathers in
Israel plan to use the same tactics against these Israeli bureaucrats to
enforce judgments which the Israeli bureaucrats commonly use to harass divorced
fathers in Israel - who cannot declare bankruptcy when these bureaucrats drive
them into destitution. These tactics
include, stop-orders from leaving the country, revoking driver’s licenses,
freezing assets including bank accounts, arrests at 2am and imprisonment in
debtor’s prison, garnishing all wages except $375 per month, calling in
employers to testify in court, and seeking similar court orders against family
members.
Two of the bureaucrats involved in the
lawsuits forced Weisskopf to endure an interrogation at their office within
hours of his emergency surgery. The
interrogation lasted an hour though he was suffering from a fractured sinus and
bone cyst at the time. Weisskopf
recorded the meeting audibly, superimposed visual animation and posted a
three-part satire on YouTube:
To date the three-part satire has received
over 100,000 views ranking them 40th place as the most-viewed
Israeli videos on YouTube. Weisskopf’s
inbox has been flooded with messages from police and social workers worldwide
denouncing the brutal treatment he endured at the hands of Israeli
bureaucrats. Meanwhile Israeli
authorities have stonewalled efforts to investigate wrong-doing by their
bureaucrats.
The international contact for these lawsuits
is the Coalition for Children and the Family in Israel (www.ccfisrael.org). Jury
trial on the first lawsuit has been set for May-June 2013.
Lawsuit in the USA
שלום חברים יקרים
אתמול היה
לי דיון הראשון שלי בבית משפט אמריקאי נגד
אלה תורמים
לג'יהאד פמיניסטית נגד אבות פה בארץ. השופט
נתן לי רשות להוסיף כל אב להיות תובע כפי שאני
בוחר אם הישראלי, האמריקאי, הקנדי, הקמבודי - לא משנה. אני
מזמין כל מי שרוצה להצטרף
לענות באופן פרטי לקבלת פרטים נוספים
המשפט נקבע לחודש מאי 2013.
המשפט נקבע לחודש מאי 2013.
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I had my first hearing in the
American court against donors to the feminist jihad against fathers here in
Israel. The judge gave me permission to add any father as a plaintiff whom
I will chose whether Israeli, American, Canadian, Cambodian - doesn't
matter. I invite anyone who wants to join to reply privately for more
details.
The trial is set for May 2013.
R.
David Weisskopf
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