Richard Falk’s expulsion from Israel
Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Cameron Reilly in General
Richard Falk is professor of international law at Princeton University and the UN’s special rapporteur (a person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation and report to that body) on the Palestinian territories. On Dec 14, while leading a mission to visit the West Bank and Gaza to prepare a report on Israel’s compliance with human rights standards and international humanitarian law, he was held at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, taken to a locked tiny room that smelled of urine and filth, detained for 15 hours, and finally denied entry.
When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were
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