The monitoring team of MUSAWA documented the trial proceedings in the case of the murder of community activist Nizar Banat, which was held at the military court’s headquarters in Ramallah today, Tuesday, 06/09/2022. The team's attention was drawn to the fact that the defendants were present at the trial session as free men, even though the court did not issue a release order during the previous court hearings. The team looked into the circumstances of the release, in which MUSAWA learned, from close and well-informed sources, that the defendants’ attorney had previously applied for the release of the defendants during the...

The Judicial Decision to Stop the Strike of the Engineers Association in Defiance of the Principle of Open Justice and the Right of Defense   Following the Administrative Court’s decision to stop the Engineers Association’s strike without calling it for trial, without hearing its defenses and in absentia, and in a secret manner that defies the principle of open justice and the right of defense, MUSAWA considers the said ruling, which came, according to its wording, an implementation of the Administrative Courts Decree-law, as a serious infringement on the r...

Conveying threat messages does not legitimize nor contribute to the stability of the regime   MUSAWA - The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession warns against the forces of darkness and backwardness reformulating the Palestinian political system, changing its identity, nature and essence into some kind of medieval regimes of darkness that do not recognize intellectual pluralism and shut the door in the face of the right to participate in public life and the right to opinion and expression, and the...