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Court denies Anat Kam's appeal for extenuated house arrest

Judge slams appeal by woman charged with leaking IDF documents, says 'no room to compare house arrest in central Tel Aviv to actual imprisonment'

The Tel Aviv District Court denied on Sunday an appeal by Anat Kam to ease the conditions of her house arrest. Kam, who is charged with leaking 2,000 confidential military documents to journalist Uri Blau, asked to be allowed out of her house for two hours a day.

 

The court determined that no new evidence had been uncovered justifying the altering of the conditions of her arrest.

 

Kam's attorney, Haim Yitzhak, said the request was filed out of "humanitarian concerns" as his client is a "young woman who lives in a small apartment in a very difficult reality."

 

Judge Oded Mudrik criticized the appeal, saying that in requesting that Kam not be held in police custody until the conclusion of legal proceedings, her lawyers had not insisted that she be allowed to leave her apartment for two hours a day.

 

"There is no room to compare house arrest in an apartment in central Tel Aviv – with the possibility of leaving the house for court hearings or to meet with attorneys - to actual imprisonment," said the judge.

 


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