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Un juge de la Haute Cour se récuse dans l affaire du film Jenin, Jenin
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High Court justice recuses himself from Jenin, Jenin film case
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A general view of the Jenin refugee camp, September 12, 2011. (Photo: Wagdi Eshtayah/APA Images)
Last week an Israeli district court ruled against a Palestinian filmmaker and actor, Mohammad Bakri in a defamation and libel case, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an officer in the Israeli military who was accused of carrying out war crimes in the 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin.”
On January 11 Bakri was ordered to pay Lt. Col. (res.) Nissim Magnagi $70,000 and the court seized 23 copies of the film and banned all future screenings.
The film captures Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank during an Israeli military invasion at the peak of the second Intifada.
Mohammad Bakri at the Lod District Court on December 21, 2017 (FLASH90)
The Lod District Court ruled on Monday that the controversial 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin” could not be screened in Israel and that all copies should be seized, and ordered the payment of damages to an army reservist officer who was defamed in the film.
Lt. Col. (res.) Nissim Magnagi filed his suit against the filmmaker, Mohammad Bakri, in November 2016, demanding NIS 2.6 million (approximately $820,000) in damages and an end to the screening of the documentary.
The court ordered Bakri pay Magnagi NIS 175,000 ($55,000) as well as NIS 50,000 ($15,500) in legal expenses.
“At the end of the day, and looking closely, we are dealing with a defendant who found it appropriate to produce a film that purports to be a documentary, based on a group of interviews with those who are presumed to be residents of the Jenin refugee camp,” wrote Judge Halit Silash in her ruling. “The evidence in this case shows th
La justice israélienne interdit la diffusion d un film polémique sur Jénine
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