Orthodox Jews trash prison vehicle over electronic tagging
Crowds trashed a prison vehicle in an Israeli city in a row over the electronic tagging of an Orthodox Jewish man.
Prison officers went to Bnei Brak after they stopped receiving signals from the high-tech device that local rabbis decreed could not be worn on a Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said Tuesday.
Confronted by an angry mob, the prison offers fled the city -- a stronghold of Haredi Judaism, the most conservative branch of the Jewish faith -- on foot, leaving their vehicle to be smashed and overturned with its windows broken.
The man had been electronically tagged as a form of house arrest for his role in a recent violent demonstration against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem that was subsequently canceled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070102/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionjudaism_070102104324
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