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Israel releases MP Khaled Tafesh from administrative detention

18:00 Aug 19 2012 West Bank

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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities released a Palestinian lawmaker on Sunday evening after he had spent seven months in Israeli detention without facing charges.

Khaled Tafesh, MP for the Hamas-affiliated Change and Reform Bloc, was seized by Israeli forces from his Bethlehem home on January 19, 2012.

In May his administrative detention order was renewed for a further three months.

On Wednesday, Israel released two other Change and Reform party members of the Palestinian parliament from administrative detention.
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