{"id":69502,"date":"2011-02-23T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=69502"},"modified":"2011-02-23T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:31:21","slug":"armenian-lawyer-defends-russian-speaking-prisoners-rights-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/23\/armenian-lawyer-defends-russian-speaking-prisoners-rights-in-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Lawyer Defends Russian-Speaking Prisoners&#8217; Rights in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of discrimination in Israeli prisons, Russian-speaking inmates do not receive parole, reports Mignews.com.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Israel Bar Association joined the lawsuit against the Israel Prison Service (Shabas) launched by lawyer Alexander Gambaryan, a member of the committee to supervise order in Israeli prisons, to stop discrimination against Russian-speaking prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Prisoners in Israeli prisons are entitled to parole after serving two-thirds of their sentence, which means they can spend the remainder of their sentence outside the prison walls. However, to be released early, prisoners must pass a special psychotherapy course, and this is where the discrimination against Russian-speaking inmates begins.<\/p>\n<p>The courses are group therapy sessions which are conducted in Hebrew. As a rule, Russian-speaking inmates don&#8217;t know Hebrew, so they don&#8217;t undergo the psychotherapy sessions and thus, are not eligible for parole.<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings of the suit filed by Gambaryan against the Israel Prison Service have already lasted a year and a half. Prison management recognizes that discrimination occurs, but also notes the government doesn&#8217;t have funds to allocate from the country&#8217;s budget toward offering therapies in Russian.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of discrimination in Israeli prisons, Russian-speaking inmates do not receive parole.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22421,22422,12628,665,22418,22419,22420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}