RAMALLAH, January 3, 2010 (AFA)-Israeli authorities continue to detain Ryan Olander, US citizen and solidarity activist, who was illegally arrested on December 18, 2009 for his support of Palestinian families evicted from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.
Minnesota resident Ryan Olander is facing deportation after being held in Israeli prisons for over two weeks, International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said.
He spent his Christmas and New Year at a deportation facility in Ramle, where his request for release has been rejected by the prison judge. His lawyer submitted an appeal to the Israeli District Court in Tel Aviv on December 27, 2009 challenging the request of the Israeli Ministry of Interior for Olander's deportation. The lawyer is anticipating the decision of the judge within the next 48 hours, ISM added.
Ryan Olander was arrested from a tent the Palestinian Al-Kurd family built in their own backyard following a recent setter take-over of a section of their house. He was drinking tea and talking to the family members when six Israeli policemen walked into the tent and took him for questioning at the Russian Compound police station in west Jerusalem. Despite being released without charges the following day, Ryan was illegally re-arrested by immigration police only a few moments later, right outside of the same police station that told him he was free to go.
Following his arrest, Olander made the following statement: 'I have become a target of the police for standing in solidarity with the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah who struggle against the unjust and illegal evictions from the places they have called their homes for nearly 60 years. Now I face deportation from Israel.'
During the time Ryan Olander spent in Israeli prisons, the residents of Sheikh Jarrah in Occupied East Jerusalem have been subjected to further harassment and violence from the Israeli settlers and their supporters who recently took over the houses of several Palestinian families
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