" An Arab citizen of Israel who was detained by the Israeli authorities over the weekend after a visit to Lebanon was released Thursday but ordered to be kept under house arrest. He was being held on suspicion of conducting an unauthorized visit to an enemy state and contact with a foreign agent, according to his lawyers and Israeli security officials.
The man, Majd Kayyal, 23, a Palestinian rights advocate from the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, was arrested on Saturday at a border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. Mr. Kayyal is a web editor at Adalah, a legal center promoting Arab minority rights in Israel, and a freelance contributor to several publications. He had been invited to Beirut, the Lebanese capital, to attend a conference marking the 40th anniversary of As Safir, a Lebanese newspaper where his writings have appeared regularly.
Under sweeping security restrictions, Mr. Kayyal was not allowed access to a lawyer until Wednesday night. A court-imposed gag order on the case was lifted on Thursday, though reports about the episode had already surfaced on social media and on some foreign websites."
The man, Majd Kayyal, 23, a Palestinian rights advocate from the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, was arrested on Saturday at a border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank. Mr. Kayyal is a web editor at Adalah, a legal center promoting Arab minority rights in Israel, and a freelance contributor to several publications. He had been invited to Beirut, the Lebanese capital, to attend a conference marking the 40th anniversary of As Safir, a Lebanese newspaper where his writings have appeared regularly.
Under sweeping security restrictions, Mr. Kayyal was not allowed access to a lawyer until Wednesday night. A court-imposed gag order on the case was lifted on Thursday, though reports about the episode had already surfaced on social media and on some foreign websites."
