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Last update - 11:57 03/12/2007 Four men get heavy sentences for rape, kidnap of 4 women, girls By Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Haifa District Court  The Haifa District Court on Monday handed down heavy sentences for four men from the village of Bir al-Maksour in the Galilee, convicted of raping and kidnapping four young hitchhikers from the north. The four were also convicted - in the framework of a plea bargain - of conspiring to commit crimes. The acts attributed to them took place between December 2005 and November 2006. The harshest sentence handed down is for 20 years in prison and a three- year suspended sentence for Salem Hujeirat. His cousin, Ala Hujeirat, was given 15 years in jails and a three-year suspended sentence. Ruhi Hujeirat and Mohammed Radir received nine years in jail and a three-year suspended sentence each. Advertisement The court also ordered the men to pay a total of NIS 190,000 to the complainants. The indictment against the men charges them with the rape of a female soldier kidnapped at knifepoint and three other kidnappings - of a 16-year-old girl in Kiryat Bialik, a 26-year-old woman from a bus station near Bir al-Maksour and a 13-year-old girl. The verdicts in the cases of two other suspects in the crimes will be handed down later on. Related articles: Charges filed against 6 men suspected of raping hitchhikers in north Bookmark to del.icio.us   Lost giant Endangered sea turtle washes up on Gaza's shore and is eaten. Not worried Nearly half of Israeli Arabs say let Iran develop nukes.   1.   If the perpetrators were Jews and the victims were Arabs... 12:22  |  Abdul 03/12/07   2.   Peres will pardon them soon,he needs "Israeli" arab votes 12:31  |  Absolute Sweden 03/12/07   3.   Abdul - #1 12:34  |  Yael G 03/12/07   4.   If my grandmother had wheels... 12:38  |  nina 03/12/07   5.   Abdul the slave of Arab mentality 12:48  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/12/07   6.   Abdul - does the name Benny Sela ring a bell? 12:49  |  Simon van Dam 03/12/07   7.   they should have been sentenced in iran 12:49  |  victor hardman 03/12/07   8.   Yael, Abdul the slave is insinuating that 12:53  |  Genuine Tosefta 03/12/07   9.   Victor, #7 13:27  |  eddie 03/12/07   10.   Heavy sentences,sounds like a joke 13:55  |  Yoav Naor 03/12/07   11.   Abdul is a muhammedan 14:01  |  Johnny 03/12/07   12.   No wonder Arab women... 14:09  |  MaryRose 03/12/07   13.   Propoer Sentences 14:10  |  Wael Hendawi 03/12/07   14.   Abdul #1 14:30  |  Joan 03/12/07   15.   HEAVY SENTENCES??????????? 15:03  |  Robert 03/12/07   16.   #9eddie in iran they hang them from acrane 15:38  |  victor hardman 03/12/07   17.   Ruining two families 15:42  |  sconro 03/12/07   18.   # 12 Marie-Rose - Don`t make me laugh! 15:44  |  Robert 03/12/07   19.   re: MaryRose, #12 15:51  |  Puzzled 03/12/07   20.   Is that a heavy punsihment??? 16:09  |  Ofer 03/12/07   21.   Abdul your very wrong 16:28  |  Kipperraes 03/12/07   22.   #1 simply justice. Stop your racism in the name of the victims 17:06  |  Alain 03/12/07   23.   If the victim was arab, family would have honoury killed her 17:07  |  Alain 03/12/07   24.   #1 Abdul, What is your problem??? 17:08  |  TOMY 03/12/07   25.   Raping is OK, cartooning Mahoma is what deserves death 17:11  |  Alain 03/12/07   26.   # Yael G - they will never understand it anyway! 17:23  |  Absolute Dane 03/12/07   27.   Suggestion for judgment of rapists 14:27  |  Petra 04/12/07

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