Jerusalem court convicts Sheikh Raed Salah of disturbing a policeman

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has been convicted of preventing a police officer from doing his job; Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.

According to the paper the incident took place on April 17, 2011, when Sheikh Raed pushed a policeman who came to calm him when he refused to allow the police to search his wife while crossing the Allenby border crossing.

A month ago, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court sentenced Sheikh Salah to an eight month prison sentence in addition to an eight month suspended sentence on charges of incitement to violence.