The Honenu civil rights organization is acting against several recent decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court, including rejection of Ofer Gamliel's right to vacations, the sentencing of two brothers to 30-40 months for planning to block a highway, and more.
The Supreme Court has rejected a request by Ofer Gamliel of Bat Ayin to allow him the same vacation rights accorded other prisoners. Gamliel, father of seven, has been in prison for six years, after having been sentenced to 15 years for his role in a plot to bomb an Arab school in response to the murderous terrorist wave of the Oslo War. He has been allowed out of prison for only a few hours throughout this period.
The Shabak (General Security Service) forbids Gamliel and jailed co-conspirator Shlomi Dvir, also of Bat Ayin, to receive vacation time, claiming they are hiding information on other Jewish underground activity. Shlomi's wife Ettie told Arutz-7 this is a "ridiculous claim, and the Shabak knows it."
Nonetheless, on Monday, the Supreme Court accepted the Shabak's position, and overturned a District Court ruling of six months ago that would have allowed Gamliel to receive vacation time.
Honenu's Response
In response, the Honenu organization announced the following: "At the same time that the State does not accept the Shabak's position regarding Palestinian terrorist prisoners, and decides to free even prisoners who have blood on their hands, the Supreme Court chooses to accept the Shabak position regarding Jewish prisoners, and to continue to harass and abuse Jewish prisoners. The authorities' approach to the Jewish prisoners borders on evil, obtuseness and lack of basic humanity."
Protesting Police Treatment of Girls
On Monday, a large rally was held outside the Shaar Binyamin police station, between Adam and Psagot, just north of Jerusalem, in protest of the treatment of six teenaged girls who were briefly detained there. The girls were originally arrested at the site of a new unauthorized Jewish settlement outside Beit El, and ended up in prison for three weeks because they refused to identify themselves or otherwise cooperate with the authorities. They were finally freed with no restrictions.
On their way to prison, however, the religious girls were detained at the Shaar Binyamin police station, and forced to undergo a stripping and body check for drugs. In the middle of the "examination," a male police officer walked in, seemingly by mistake, thus violating their basic right to modesty and privacy. 
In this case, it is clear that the girls will not file a complaint because they have lost all faith in the system. 
Three prominent rabbis - Tzfat's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon Moreh, and Hispin Yeshiva Dean Rabbi Amnon Sugarman of the Golan - penned an open letter of protest to Police Commission Dudu Cohen, reading, "...This trick is not new. Other female detainees have also complained about being threatened that if they did not cooperate, they would be body-checked for drugs after being totally undressed - and that a policeman would come in 'by mistake', on the girls' own responsibility..."
The rabbis wrote that the police might try to hide behind the dry claim that they cannot investigate charges of this nature if the alleged victims do not complain, "but in this case, it is clear that the girls will not file a complaint because they have lost all faith in the system... The situation at present is that no inquiry committee has been established to investigate these suspicions, despite very grave declarations and testimonies. If you do not act strongly on this issue, these suspicions are liable to place a stain on the entire system."
The rabbis wrote, "Mr. Commissioner, there is no consensus within our public regarding whether the girls' refusal to recognize the courts' authority is correct or not... However, in this case, our entire public believes that the action by the police in this case was absolutely abominable... If strong action is not taken, we will have to announce that we were apparently mistaken, and that the girls who denied the ethical authority of the courts and the police were actually correct."
Some 600 people took part in the protest, with signs calling for the policemen and women involved in the case to be charged in a rabbinical court.
Two Brothers Sentenced to 30-40 Months
Just a day earlier, on Sunday of this week, two anti-Disengagement activist brothers were sentenced to 30 and 40 months in prison, respectively, for planning a road blocking in 2005. Rabbi Mordechai and Elitzur Harel were sentenced by Tel Aviv’s Magistrates Court Justice George Kara. The brothers were arrested while preparing to block Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Expressway with a burning vehicle, in protest of the Disengagement expulsion/withdrawal plan. Several other roads and highways were blocked at the time for similar reasons.
The two were found guilty of the crime of “endangering human life on a transportation route,” with the judge comparing their scheme to the placement of a bomb in the middle of a freeway. "The judge and the prosecution turned them from planners of a roadblock protest into planners of a mass-casualty bombing," a witness said.
The Harel brothers have already been in prison for a total of eight months each.
Honenu's Response
Honenu responded to this case as well, saying that legal experts and jurists who have reviewed it expressed shock at its “travesty of justice, which is totally out of proportion even to the treatment of murderers and rapists... There is a general sense that this case constitutes a settling of accounts with those who opposed the expulsion from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. In addition, in similar cases of university students blocking roads, the punishments were much lighter, and many were not even indicted."