Court convicts police for leaving Palestinian man on road to die
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Monday convicted two police officers, Baruch Peretz and Assaf Yakutieli, of negligent homicide for abandoning an injured Palestinian man on the side of the road to die. - Jariban had been seriously injured in a car accident on May 28, 2008 while driving a stolen car and had been in Israel illegally. Judge Haim Liran rejected the arguments made by the police officers, among others, that Jariban, who was found dead, was not the man who the police had left by the road-side. The court rejected this argument based on witnesses' testimony correctly identifying Jariban. The court also rejected all explanations the police made for why they left Abu Jariban, injured at the time, by the road-side on June 12, 2008, where he died of dehydration.