Summary
A 2011 law allowing the Knesset to withhold salary and pensions from current or former MKs who do not appear at a criminal trial or investigation, in a Description-only entry in Discriminatory Laws Database (lines 1861-1885).
Details
- The alleged crime must be punishable by at least ten years, have been committed in full or in part while the person was an MK, and the person must have been declared a suspect, defendant or convicted person by the Attorney General (lines 1871-1875).
- The entry says the law was drafted in response to the exile of former Arab MK Azmi Bishara, who left Israel in March 2007, and that no indictment had been filed against him (lines 1877-1881).