JERUSALEM, May 30, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - An Israeli court on Friday ordered the 
remand of Arab-Israeli activist Sanaa Salameh, whose husband, the writer 
Walid Daqqa, died in prison last year, her lawyer said.

Salameh was remanded in custody until June 3 on charges of "incitement and 
identifying with terrorist organisations", following her arrest on Thursday, 
her lawyer Fadi Bransi said.

Salameh is the widow of Walid Daqqa, a renowned writer and activist who spent 
nearly 38 years in Israeli prison on charges of kidnapping and killing an 
Israeli soldier before he died in April last year.

Israeli authorities have since held on to his remains.

Salameh was arrested after Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir 
submitted a formal request to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel to deport her 
based on a law stipulating the expulsion of family members of "terrorists".

In the request, submitted on May 19, Ben Gvir said the attorney general had 
agreed to investigate Salameh based on social media posts in which she was 
accused of "incitement and identifying with terrorist organisations".

It was not clear which social media posts the request referred to.

Israeli police on Thursday announced Salameh's arrest in Jerusalem, accusing 
her of posting "statements considered to incite against the State of Israel 
and the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces".

Her lawyer Bransi said the attorney general's office "did not present any 
tangible evidence to support its accusations" against Salameh.

He described the proceedings against her as "political persecution", adding 
that it was "not new" and saying that the whole family had been persecuted 
"since the first day that Walid Daqqa was arrested" in 1986.

Bransi added that the Israeli authorities view "any requests from Sanaa or 
other relatives to release his (Daqqa's) body in order to bury him as 
identification with a terrorist act or terrorists".