{"id":52162,"date":"2019-11-26T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52162"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:05:36","slug":"israel-deports-hrw-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52162","title":{"rendered":"Israel Deports HRW Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JERUSALEM, Nov 26 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Despite many attempts to challenge the court&#8217;s decision, Israel is set to expel the Jerusalem-based director of Human Rights Watch (HRW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Nov 5, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Omar Shakir, against a decision to deport him and gave him 20 days to leave the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli authorities accuse Shakir of supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which Israel has criminalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HRW office director, for his part, argues that the decision was politically driven and aimed to silence human rights organisations working in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Apr, the Jerusalem District Court approved a government decision, to cancel the residency visa of Shakir, a US citizen, claiming that he has showed support for the BDS movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move was the first of its kind since the New York-based HRW began monitoring events in Israel and Palestine, three decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Nov 26 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Despite many attempts to challenge the court&#8217;s decision, Israel is set to expel the Jerusalem-based director of Human Rights Watch (HRW). On Nov 5, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Omar Shakir, against a decision to deport him and gave him 20 days to leave the country. Israeli authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194,301,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}