{"id":23,"date":"2006-09-20T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/index.php\/2006\/09\/20\/set-halemo-free\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:51:54","slug":"set-halemo-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2006\/09\/20\/set-halemo-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Halemo Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Moshe Halevi<\/strong> (aka: Halemo<\/a><\/strong>), a provocative Israeli blogger, was arrested yesterday <\/a>for allegedly revealing the identity of the person which complained against former Minister of Justice, Haim Ramon<\/strong>. Halevi was placed in custody until he will pay bail. Currently, Halevi refuses to bail. Moreover, the court, in a strange manner, decided to order Halevi to refrain from accessing the Internet for a month. This said time is the time required by the police to copy all the alleged material from his computer.<\/div>\n
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Several scary things happen from this sad story. The first is that for the first time, a blogger was arrested for not even saying something illegal, just linking to a website which states it.<\/div>\n
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What Halemo did was link to two articles, where he did not say anything<\/em> regarding the identity of the alleged victims of Moshe Katsav<\/strong>, israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president which is accused for rape and sexual assult and Haim Ramon<\/strong>, israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former minister of justice which is accused (and currently trialled) for sexual harassment.Halevi wrote the names of both Katsav and Ramon, where beneath their names he left a link to their personal websites. The Link to the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website showed (and still shows) the name of Katsav\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former chief of staff, and the Link to Ramon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site (dead now) showed a thank you letter from the alleged victim.<\/div>\n
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Halemo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest came as a surprise to the Israeli blog community and struck waves all around. That is for three reasons: The first is the amount of censorship on the Israeli bloggers, where they do not even breach any standing warrants \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only report on the location of another crime; In my humble opinion, were this report published in a mainstream paper under the title: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website linking to name of alleged victim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, there would be no problem.<\/div>\n
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Second, Halevi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest is against all due procedure laws. An arrest of a suspect shall only be done in order to protect the public or to prevent a suspect from fleeing the country or tempering with evidence, none of these are supposed to happen now.<\/div>\n
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Third, the restriction on Halevi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s internet access is not reasonable, where his profession and social ties are done through the net. Halemo was not the one which presented the victims\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 details, it was the flaw of the sysops (webmasters?) of the sites of Katsav and Ramon.<\/div>\n
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Halemo was the reporter which showed the flaw, He put a provocative, yet true, finger in the face of the king which walked naked. After weeks of conversations around various forums, and after a lot of user comments with the names of the victims, Halemo was the first to say to everyone: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the age of the internet, nothing can be hidden from the public\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/div>\n
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Though i grief along with the victims for the publication of their names, i believe that the arrest of Halemo did no good. Now everyone knows how to reach his website and find out the details of the alleged victims. Now everyone knows their dirty little secret. Will this help? Keeping Halemo in custody will not help us have a safer country, keeping elected politicians from harassing women might will. Halevi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freedom of speech was deprived today. For the first time an Israeli blogger was shut up. We, as bloggers cannot stand this, we are here for more than just writing, we are here to find out what is corrupt in the system.<\/div>\n
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Please link to this article from your blog and let others know the story of Halemo:<\/div>\n
Set Halemo Free Now!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moshe Halevi (aka: Halemo), a provocative Israeli blogger, was arrested yesterday for allegedly revealing the identity of the person which complained against former Minister of Justice, Haim Ramon. Halevi was placed in custody until he will pay bail. Currently, Halevi refuses to bail. Moreover, the court, in a strange manner, decided to order Halevi to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}