Palestinian teens spend three months in Israeli jail due to cops' false reports

Two Palestinian teens who spent three months in jail on suspicion of throwing a firebomb were released this week because the border policemen who incriminated them turned out to have submitted false reports.

The bomb was allegedly thrown at a Jerusalem checkpoint on October 21. But according to Border Police records, there were no firebombings on October 21, and an officer who testified that he had witnessed the incident was not at the checkpoint that day, either.

The border policemen who gave the testimony were apparently "helped" by investigators, who supplied them with information from the teens' confession to serve as the basis for their report.

Nevertheless, the charges against the teens have not yet been dropped. more