# Palestine activists convicted of harassing minister
Two women have been convicted of harassing a government minister..
“terrified” Cardiff Magistrates’ Court heard that justice minister and Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones was after being confronted by two pro-Palestine activists while campaigning.
Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring found Ayeshah Behit, 31, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, from Treforest, Rhondda Cynnon Taf, guilty of harassment following a trial.
He gave them a conditional discharge and fine.
“scared and intimidated” Davies-Jones said she felt after being approached by Behit, 31, and Ahmed, 26..
“full-blown supporter of this genocide” The court heard Behit and Ahmed had leaflets describing the MP as a in Gaza.
Davies-Jones was approached while leafletting in the defendants’ hometown on 26 June last year ahead of the general election.
The MP said the confrontation escalated in intensity:
“It was escalating in terms of passion and intensity. We walked off in the opposite direction. We felt scared and intimidated and we wanted to leave the situation.
“They began to follow us..
They were shouting and bellowing down the street at us - ‘why do you support genocide, why are you murdering babies, Alex Davies-Jones, do you support genocide?’”
Sentencing, Mr Goldspring told Ahmed and Behit:
“This was part of a deliberate and sustained campaign targeting the complainant.
“This course of conduct was clearly designed to cause alarm and distress to her and she did experience alarm and distress..
She stopped canvassing.
“It was not reasonable and it was oppressive.”
Ahmed, a final year architecture student at Cardiff University with no previous convictions, was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge..
Behit, who has a conviction relating to a protest in Cardiff last year, received an 18-month conditional discharge.
They were both ordered to pay £650 costs and a £26 court surcharge, at a rate of £20 per month.
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