Summary
Amendment No. 120 (2015) to the Israeli Penal Code imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for stone-throwing, enacted as a temporary order, which Adalah’s Discriminatory Laws Database presents as targeting Palestinians who are citizens of Israel or residents of East Jerusalem, in a Description-only entry (Discriminatory Laws Database, lines 1118-1140).
Details
- The minimum sentence is set at one-fifth of the maximum sentence: two years where the maximum is 10 years, and four years where it is 20 years. Adalah’s account is that mandatory minima ignore individual circumstances and judicial discretion, including on rehabilitation, although most stone-throwers are young people (lines 1130-1134).
- The amendment is officially a temporary order valid for three years. An earlier related law added a 10-year maximum for stone-throwing without proof of intent to cause harm; the pre-existing 20-year maximum applies where courts find such proof (lines 1132-1136).