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Israel frees speaker of Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament
Jun 23, 2009, 10:44 GMT
Gaza - Israel released early Tuesday afternoon the speaker of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council who had been held in an Israeli jail for 34 months, his family said.
Aziz Dweik was arrested in August 2006, after Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was snatched in a cross-border raid Hamas and two other militant groups launched form the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli military court decided Wednesday last week to release him. According to Israel Radio, a military appeals court rejected the army's request to keep him in prison until he served out his three-year sentence.
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