Ramadan arrests

Via Ma’an News Agency, we learn that “[Palestinian Authority] Police in Jenin detained three residents accused of ‘violating the sanctity of Ramadan’ by eating in the street Thursday. The three were detained and taken for interrogation before prosecution, police said … Six people were detained for smoking during the day in Salfit in August”.

This Ma’an News item (which notes that “fasting is rarely enforced by the police”) is published here.

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