Once again, the appointed High Judicial Council issues instructions amending laws supplemental to the constitution-this time the Penal Code- without legal competence or constitutional legitimacy, and with a weak claim: “For better management of criminal cases, and fast, low-cost trial procedures” as described by its issuer. We stress the illegitimacy and unconstitutionality of such instructions, demanding that they be set aside and abolished immediately. Therefore, this position paper aims to show all the risks entailed in these instructions, as they restrict and blatantly interfere with the judges’ work, turning them i...

MUSAWA-The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, held in cooperation with the community committee a national conference on 25/02/2023 at the Red Crescent Society in Ramallah and the Roots hotel in Gaza via video conference. The conference witnessed a remarkable presence of Palestinian political parties and factions, non-partisans, civil society organizations, politicians, academics, intellectuals, former and current officials, human rights activists, jurists, businessmen, unionists, mukhtars and university students, in addition to a remarkable turnout of Palestinian women. Representatives of p...

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