Human rights organisations call for holding to account perpetrators of attacks on peaceful assemblies and warn of a breakdown of the human rights situation On Sunday, 27 June 2021, Palestinian human rights groups held an emergency meeting at Al-Haq in the aftermath of attacks by Palestinian security agencies on participants in peaceful assemblies organised over recent days in the city centre of Ramallah. Protestors expressed their open condemnation of the murder of political activist Nizar Banat, while he was being arrested by security services.

Stop Tampering with The Social Contract and People's Rights: Let the State of Emergency Be Canceled Immediately   The executive authority insists and perseveres in its singularity and dominance once again where it adheres to imposing measures that affect the right of citizens to participate in public life and decides to extend the new state of emergency that it declared last month which lasted for 16 months. This state of emergency takes the form of a declaration and then an extension, in clear contradiction with the Basic Law and the Declaration of Ind...

Respected Chairman and Members of the Central Elections Committee   Subject: Procedures that turn the exercise of the right to elections into a crime   MUSAWA - The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, greets you, stating that it has obtained a copy of a request to extend the detention for a period of fifteen days issued by the head of the Yatta Public Prosecution, which wa...