Hi, Friends, Supporters.

Today [22? February] the trial continued at 13:00, in the same court in Jerusalem. Mr Feldman could not come to the hearing so there was only Mr Michael Sfard as my lawyer.

Few supporters were with me in the court, Jerry Levin was there plus three from Norway and one from Belgium. No press or any media people.

First, the judge Mr Yoel Zur, already this week gave a decision that the court will not accept all the evidence from the Internet and from ‘Internet Chats’ taken without any authority from my computer by the police.

Sfard cross examined the policeman Peterburg, who interrogated me months ago in the police offices, about his methods especially with going through my computers to see my emails and chats, and going to court to ask for my arrest, and search my room. Sfard proved to the court, according to the police documents, that they asked Microsoft to give them details of my Hotmail account, my passwords, and the IP address. All this was after [this is probably a mistake, the word should have been before!] the police went to the court , asking the judge for permission to read my emails.

Microsoft obeyed these requests and gave them all the details, but not the Passwords. This took place on Aug. 12th, 2004, three months before arresting me and confiscating my computers. Sfard pointed out that it is strange to ask Microsoft to give this information if they [the police] don’t have the court’s order permitting them to listen [the defence claims that written chats are legally protected just like phonecalls] to my private conversations. It means they wanted to go through my emails in secret or maybe with the help of the secret services, the Shabak, Mossad – not as the police stated, ie. Peterburg, that he searched my email account – and all his material came – only from my [confiscated] computer.

More important revelation was, that the police each time went to the court claiming that I am being suspected with spying activity. Not just not following the restrictions. So Mr Sfard wanted the police to tell the court what kind of espionage was I involved with. The policeman did not have any answers and said that he brought all the evidence to the court. When Sfard asked Peterburg again, about any material related to the ‘espionage’, Peterburg had no answers.

It had been also revealed the the State came to the court with two special secrecy Government orders {Hisaion}, which allow the prosecution to keep documents related to the court hearing, in secret! One by the Minister for Interior Security and one by the Minister of Defense. What are they about? We don’t know. One thing is the secret cooperation, work, between the police and Shabak, Mossad.

So Sfard proved that the police had misled the judges who gave orders to arrest me, to search my room, to go through my email, confiscate my computers (for almost a year), and also misled Microsoft to believe they are helping in a case of espionage, otherwise Microsoft would not have cooperated with such orders.

This case, interrogations, arrests, confiscations of private properties and more, all done from the start under the false and misleading statements to the courts of ‘suspicion of espionage’, and yet they are not charging me with spy crimes.

{All these issues should had been raised in the early testimony of the policeman, by Feldman.}

The judge also asked questions. He wanted to know what the police said to the judges when it asked all these orders, how the proceedings have been conducted then.

Peterburg most of the time said he does not remember. It looked like he did not want to answer a lot of questions.

The prosecutor wanted the court to have the tapes, where they videod me in secret when I was interrogated by the police in their offices.

The court decided to give time until May 1st, for each side to write their arguments for and against “No case to answer” .

That was it for today.

Please anyone who could suggest prominent names who could testify on the subject of freedom of expression and hopefully could come to testify or write on the matter etc. Any ideas or help in this matter of my right to freedom of speech and that I have not committed any crimes, include donation for legal expenses, would be very welcome.

Thank You

vmjc

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 Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take

 That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love,

 And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above

 Enjoy such liberty. Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657