JERUSALEM: An Israeli court yesterday found Islamic cleric Sheikh Raed Salah guilty of obstructing the work of police when they quizzed and searched his wife, the firebrand’s latest run-in with the law.
The court said Salah, an Arab-Israeli, had “interrupted” police officers when they questioned his wife at the Allenby border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan.
Salah was questioned and searched on his way back into Israel in April 2011, said the ruling of the Jerusalem magistrate’s court.
But when a female officer wanted to search his wife, he began yelling and was eventually restrained by other police while the search took place.
The preacher then broke free from their hold and attempted to charge into the room where the search was being carried out.
AFP
