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Jerusalem Women of the Wall win ruling against arrests
Jerusalem's district court has upheld a ruling that Israeli security forces were wrong to arrest women who were praying at the Western Wall.
The ruling comes after five women were arrested at the wall, one Judaism's holiest sites, earlier this month.
They were part of a movement seeking to overturn a 2003 High Court ban on women performing religious rituals which Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.
Police had appealed against an earlier ruling that the arrests were illegal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22298067
The ruling comes after five women were arrested at the wall, one Judaism's holiest sites, earlier this month.
They were part of a movement seeking to overturn a 2003 High Court ban on women performing religious rituals which Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.
Police had appealed against an earlier ruling that the arrests were illegal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22298067