Occupied Jerusalem: A prominent Muslim cleric has been sentenced to jail for leading a violent demonstration in Occupied Jerusalem in 2007.
Raed Salah was given nine months in prison by an Occupied Jerusalem court for assaulting a police officer and leading a demonstration, near the Old City. His jail term begins on Sunday.
Around 200 supporters of the leader, who heads the radical wing of the Islamic Movement of Arabs in Israel, accompanied him to a prison in Ramla near Tel Aviv, waving the movement's green flag as well as Palestinian flags, an AFP reporter said.
Salah was convicted of assault for an incident that took place in February 2007 during a demonstration in Occupied East Jerusalem, in which court documents said he insulted a border policeman and spat in his face.
Earlier this month, an Occupied Jerusalem court reduced his sentence from nine months to five.
Salah has been detained on a number of occasions, most recently after taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla stormed on May 31 by Israeli naval commandos in an operation which left nine Turkish activists dead.
