The court denied the police’s request to extend the man’s detention, saying that while the sticker ‘could offend public sentiments and certainly the feelings of the soldier’s family,’ it considered it an expression of opinion, protected by the right for freedom of expression
Israeli police arrested a pro-Palestinian activist on Thursday at a café in Tel Aviv after he recorded himself attaching a sticker bearing the Palestinian flag, with the words “Free Palestine,” to a memorial honoring a fallen soldier in the southern city of Sderot.