Esteemed Head of the Advisory and Legislation Bureau Advisor Kamal Ibrahim,   Subject: Issuance of the Palestinian official gazette contrary to the law MUSAWA - The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession extends its warmest greetings to you. After studying the Palestinian official gazette no. (130), MUSAWA observed that the publication, issued on 05/03/2017, contains items in English (an annex of tables related to drugs, psychot...

Honorable Attorney General Mr. Ahmad Barrak, Subject: Violation of a lawyer’s right to contact their client MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession receibed on 06/03/2017 a written complaint from two lawyers from Ramallah, Salameh Halaseh and Mohammad Al-Hareeni. The complaint states that, on 26/02/2017, as they were attempting to visit their clients, who are being held at Jericho’s Preventive Security Service and the Preventive Secur...

Unfortunately, the full memo is only available in Arabic.  Following is a brief of the most important points addressed in the memo:     BRIEF: MUSAWA’s memo (13/03/2017) on Draft Decree-Law Amending Supreme Constitutional Court Law MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession sent a legal memo to Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, demanding that the Draft Decree-Law Amending the ...