JERUSALEM, Aug 19 (AFP) - An Israeli court on Thursday overturned an expulsion order against a British journalist who was detained for eight days at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, her lawyer said Thursday.
Ewa Jasiewicz, 26, from the leftist magazine Red Pepper, was questioned for seven hours when she arrived in the country on August 11 over her alleged links with pacifist movements, said Yael Barda.
The interior ministry, acting on the advice of the internal Shin Beth security service, refused her entry into the country. It said she was a security threat, based on her presumed links with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).
The Tel Aviv district court ruled she could stay in Israel as long as she did not enter the Palestinian territories and did not join anti-occupation protests.
She also had to post bail of 30,000 shekels (6,500 dollar/5,250 euross).
Since April 2002 more than 60 members of the ISM have been thrown out of Israel. The group is blacklisted by the Jewish state on the grounds that it hinders security operations in the occupied territories.
In March 2002, ISM activist 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she protested against the flattening of a Palestinian home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Just over a year later, April 2003, another activist, 22-year-old Briton Tom Hurndall, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier in Rafah. The soldier is under investigation.