TWO Newport women held in Israeli prison cells for five days arrived home yesterday.
Pippa Bartolotti, 57, of Malpas, who is the deputy leader of the Green Party in Wales, and Joyce Giblin, of Bassaleg Road, landed in Luton airport at around midnight.
They were picked up by Ms Giblin’s husband Tony and they arrived back in Wales at around 5am.
The pair were part of a host of British people detained by Israeli authorities at David Ben-G urion Airport, Tel Aviv, after travelling out on a peace-making exercise in the West Bank.
Despite being locked up, neither woman was charged with any crime, and were arrested as they arrived in the Middle East.
Ms Bartolotti was allowed through passport control but was handcuffed and arrested by police after she began talking to journalists.
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