However, the decision adopted can still be appealed by the State, so Ruiz will not yet be released. The humanitarian worker was sentenced to 13 months in prison for working for an illegal organization and for having smuggled money into the West Bank under false pretenses.
The Israeli prison authorities have granted this Tuesday the parole to the Spanish aid worker Juani Ruiz, sentenced to 13 months in prison for working for an illegal organization and for having introduced money under false pretenses in the West Bank, as confirmed by her lawyer, Avigdor Feldman.
However, the decision made by the Parole Board “can still be appealed by the State, so Juani he won’t be released yet“, the lawyer has specified. After the sentence occurred last November, the defense already tried unsuccessfully to obtain the conditional freedom of the cooperator.
Ruiz, a resident of the occupied West Bank and married to a Palestinian Christian, has worked for decades as a project coordinator for the Works for Health Committees, a Palestinian NGO that provides assistance to the population in terms of health and development while fighting for their rights (organization considered illegal by Israel).
Last November the defense of Juani Ruiz reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office. After the agreement, the charges were reduced from five to two: “providing services to an illegal organization” as well as “receiving money and illegally introducing it” into the West Bank.
Source: Eitb
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