JERUSALEM, June 4, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli police Monday arrested a Palestinian scholar and charged him with disobeying a gag order banning him from talking to the press, according to Palestinian sources.
They said Israeli police arrested Najeh Bkeirat, head of the Manuscripts and Heritage Department at al-Aqsa Mosque, from his East Jerusalem home and took him to the Russian compound detention center in West Jerusalem for interrogation.
Police had previously issued a gag order against Bkeirat banning him from talking to local or foreign media about the situation in Jerusalem, particularly Israeli digs under the Old City of Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site.
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