The Honorable Head and Members of the High Judicial Council, Subject: 1-    The High Judicial Council’s Circular No. (1385/20), issued on 09/05/2017, which prohibits judges from giving statements or media interviews to any party whatsoever if they are not officially commissioned by the Head of the High Judicial Council or his appointed deputy, to which they will be held accountable. 2-    The High ...

In Defense of the Rule of Law and the Freedom of Expression   Following the recent media coverage of the referral of a judge in the Supreme Court and a member in the High Judicial Council, Judge Abdullah Ghazlan, for investigation after a decision was issued by the Vice-President of the Supreme Court/Deputy Head of the High Judicial Council, which came due to the views which Judge has published regarding matters of administrative judicial concern, the undersigned Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) called an urgent meeting to discuss and exam...

His Excellency the Attorney General Dr. Ahmad Barrak, Subject: Failure to Implement Judicial Decisions MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession received a written complaint on April 18, 2017 from the citizen Maamoon Azzam Al-Hassan, who is originally from Qalqilya and resides in the United Arab Emirates, in his capacity as the brother of the detainee Abdel Fattah Azzam Al-Hassan, who has been detained since May 25, 2009 until the date of the filed...