Luisa Morgantini, 84, former vice
president of the European Parliament and well-known Italian
activist, and the journalist of Il Sole 24ore Roberto Bongiorni,
arrested this morning in Tuba (south of Hebron) because they
allegedly entered a "military zone", have been released by the
Israeli police.
Both were taken to the police station in the Kiryat Arba colony
and were then released thanks to the intervention of the Italian
embassy in Tel Aviv and the Consulate in Jerusalem, the
Farnesina in Rome reported.
Morgantini, a member of the small leftist Communist Refoundation
party, is a leading member of the Italian peace movement and was
one of the founders of the Italian branch of the Women in Black
anti-war organisation.
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