2018-04-23

Ramallah

West Bank

Legal memo to: 
Attorney General, Dr. Ahmad Barrak
Minister of Education and Higher Education, Dr. Sabri Saidam
Child Protection Advisor at the Ministry of Social Affairs

Complaint from: 
Lawyer Ghandi Al-Rab’ee

Subject: 
“Deprivation of Liberty, Violation of the Right to Education”

Memo date: 
23/04/2018

Brief description:
On 22/04/2018, MUSAWA received a complaint from Adv. Ghandi Al-Rab’ee from Ramallah, stating that during his visit to a relative’s house in …………………….. Village in southern Hebron he witnessed some kids in strange clothing. When he asked the residents there, they reported that the children were …..............’s, who prevents his children from going to school or interacting with their peers. The father refused any interference from the villagers to enable the children to go to their school.

It is worth mentioning that the complainant stated that he had published the incident on his Facebook page, where the followers confirmed the information mentioned above.

MUSAWA’s intervention:
In view of what has been said, MUSAWA believes that the contents of the complaint, if true, entail a violation of the children’s right to live a normal life, it deprives them of their liberty, and it violates their right to education, to which they are entitled under the Basic Law, particularly Article (24), which states, “Every citizen shall have the right to education. It shall be compulsory until at least the end of the basic level. Education shall be free in public schools and institutions”. 

In its memo, MUSAWA demands that the father be held accountable and his children be guaranteed their right to attend school.