Your Excellency Mr. Dia’ Al-Madhoun, President of the High Judicial Council, Your Excellency Mr. Mohammed Al-Nahhal, Gaza Attorney General, MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession extends its greetings to you. According to the monitoring and documentation of MUSAWA’s team in regards to bringing the defendants handcuffed before the magistrates and the panel in the courts of first instance, and remaining handcuffed until the end of the case proceeding in fu...

  Let the Decree-law on the fees of Administrative Courts be abolished immediately and without delay We look forward to a loud voice and active lobbying from the Bar Association and all other institutions and societal bodies to get its issuer to abolish it. Again, under the cover of darkness and in an individualistic manner that only takes into consideration the interest of the executive authority and the powerful individuals in governance, and on the altar of the Basic Law, the President promulgates a Decree-Law h...

Date: 26 May 2022   Position paper issued by Palestinian Human Rights and Civil Society Organizations On the adoption of the National Mechanism against Torture Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations have followed up the establishment of the National Mechanism against Torture since the State of Palestine's accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture in 2017 and have held a dialogue over four years with the official Government Team on the implementation of the State of Palestine's obligations under its accession to the Protocol, ref...