Peace Activist Nathan Freed After 4 Months
Israeli peace campaigner Abie Nathan was freed from prison Friday after serving four months in prison for meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.
“I am free, absolutely free,” Nathan told army radio after his release from Eyal prison north of Tel Aviv, where hundreds of supporters greeted him outside the gate.
Nathan, a popular broadcaster, was convicted last year of violating a 1986 law barring contact with members of what Israel brands terrorist groups, including the PLO. He met Arafat in Tunis in 1988.
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