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Palestinian writer and journalist Lama Khater was released after having served a sentence of 13 months in Israeli prison. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency<\/span> <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> Khater’s husband Hazem Al-Fakhouri said she was released in the north of the West Bank at the Jalameh checkpoint and that she is good health.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Khater was arrested on 24 July 2018 in her home town of Hebron after Israeli forces<\/span> <\/span>investigated<\/span><\/a> <\/span>the journalist for her “writing and membership in a banned organisation”, suggesting that she was inciting violence through her articles published across Palestinian and Arab news media. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As Middle East Monitor<\/span> <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a>, days previous to her detention, Khater had published tweets criticising Israeli authorities preventing Muslims from entering and praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The same news agency also reported that in her years of working as journalist and writer, she had been threatened both by the Israeli and Palestinian Authority’s intelligence services.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After her arrest, Khater was taken to Ashkelon prison and the NGO Palestinian Prisoners Club<\/span> <\/span>stated<\/span><\/a> that she was forced to “a harsh and continuous investigation, which lasted for more than 20 hours a day, confined to a chair all the time”. Her trial was constantly postponed for months and she was transferred to different prisons without any officials charges revealed. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n