Court extends remand of Jerusalemite child

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Magistrate court in occupied Jerusalem decided to extend the detention of a 12-year-old Jerusalemite child till Wednesday.

The court hearing afternoon Monday said that the child Muslim Oda would appear before the central court on Tuesday to decide on the lawyer’s appeal for his release.

The Magistrate court charged Oda with throwing stones and firebombs and manufacturing firebombs and distributing them on children based on secret intelligence information, refusing to release him on bail or to house arrest.

Oda was beaten on his arrest at dawn Monday from Bustan suburb and during his interrogation, which his mother was banned from attending and remained waiting in the street in front of the Salahuddin police station where he was being held and questioned till noon. He was then taken to the Magistrate court in the afternoon.