GENEVA, (PIC)-- A Switzerland-based rights group has petitioned for local courts to issue an arrest warrant against Shimon Peres as the Israeli president arrives Monday for a visit to the country.
The Rights for All group has filed charges with the Swiss Attorney General to have Peres arrested for war crimes committed during the latest Israeli war on Gaza in 2008-2009.
”[Switzerland's] humanitarian record obligates it to [arrest him],” Rights for All chairman Anwar al-Gharbi said Monday. ”Especially since the UN's Goldstone report regarding the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip accuses Tel Aviv and its leaders of committing war crimes and humanitarian crimes in the wake of the killing of more than 1,450 Palestinians, most of them children and women, within 22 days.”
More than 20 rights groups have staged demonstrations Monday near the government headquarters in Geneva to protest Peres's visit to Switzerland.
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