January 4, 2005
Kelly Bornshlegel on WORT 89.9 FM
Kelly Bornshlegel on A Public Affair, WORT 89.9 FM
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Noon — 1:00 pm
Kelly Bornshlegel has just returned from the West Bank and will speak on WORT's "A Public Affair" with guest host Donna Vukelich. Kelly will talk about what she experienced and witnessed during her time in Palestine and while being held and interrogated in Israeli prison. MRSCP's George Arida will also participate in the discussion, which will include a focus on the issue of divestment.
Kelly has spent most of the past year in Palestine, much of that time in Nablus and the Balata Refugee Camp. In early December Kelly was arrested by the Israeli Army in the Occupied West Bank for attending a peaceful demonstration by Palestinians and taking video footage of Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian youth participating in the demonstration. Kelly was illegally detained and imprisoned by the Israeli military and interrogated by the Interior Ministry, Military Police, Shabak (Israeli secret service) and a deportation "judge." In total Kelly was held in captivity for eleven days, during which time she was refused access to a lawyer, refused any information about formal charges or process, and moved between three different Israeli military prisons. Her last stay was at Tsochar prison in the Negev desert, just 10 km (6 miles) from the Gaza Strip. On December 24th she was deported; the immigration police put her on a flight to NY via Madrid, and she finally arrived back in Madison Christmas Day.
Please welcome Kelly back home, and please CALL into the show (256-2001) with your questions and comments this Tuesday at Noon on WORT.



