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...third setback for the government, the Supreme Court issued a ruling highly critical of Shin Bet, the domestic security service that only six months earlier had been cited for improprieties in the deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The court ordered former Lieutenant Azat Napso, 32, released immediately from prison, where he had spent 7 1/2 years on espionage and treason charges that were brought by Shin Bet but later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef...
...case centers on Azat Napso, an army lieutenant convicted in 1980 on charges of spying for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Throughout his military trial Napso, now 32, maintained his innocence, claiming that some of the evidence presented against him had been tampered with. Last February, under a new law permitting Israel's Supreme Court to review military verdicts, Napso won the right to an appeal. It is scheduled to be heard in late...
...Israeli press quickly identified the head Shin Bet investigator in the Napso case as Yossi Ginossar, who resigned from the agency in the bus- hijacking scandal. Ginossar, now director of the state-owned Israel Export Institute, issued a statement through his lawyer that news reports linking him to evidence tampering in the Napso case "were without any basis in reality." Shin Bet officials, who for security reasons want to avoid a public airing of their methods and operations in open court, have sounded out Napso on the possibility of a pardon. So far, he has rebuffed the entreaties...
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