Sheikh Salah gets 9 months in jail for assaulting officer
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The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court sentenced head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch Sheikh Raed Salah to nine months imprisonment and six months probation for rioting and assaulting a police officer some three years ago.
"This is a significant sentence, in order to clarify to the defendant the severity of the offence he committed," Judge Yitzhak Shimoni said. In addition, Salah was ordered to pay NIS 7,500 (Some $2,000) to the officer his spit on in February 2007. (Ronen Medzini)
