Muhanad Nasr
On 6/1/2020 Lawyers for Justice pursued the case of the political detainee Muhanad Nasr in front of the Public Prosecution Brigades in Ramallah, where he was interrogated on charges of collecting and receiving funds from illegal associations, a political charge that the Public Prosecution with respect to direct to political detainees. The effects of the political detainee Muhannad Nasr before the Public Prosecution in the presence of a representative of lawyers for justice, the lawyer Muhannad Karajeh, allegations of torture. Poor conditions of detention that he lives from the beginning of his detention on 5/1/2020, where he is placed suspicious in a small cell measuring 30 * 30 cm. Lawyers for justice the allegations raised by the detainee with the General Intelligence Service in Ramallah are considered a crime accountable by law, and in violation of the treaties and agreements signed by the State of Palestine. Lawyers for Justice considers this statement as a communication of the compassion of the Attorney General for the release of the detainee Muhannad Nasr and for the investigation of the allegations that have raised it.
December 2019 report, Lawyers for Justice
17 cases of political detention, and 5 of the detainees raise allegations of torture and miss-treatment A contribution from the “Lawyers for Justice” group in monitoring and documenting the Palestinian human rights situation, publishes this second monthly report of December 2019, on the cases it follows legally at the level of political and arbitrary detention and human rights.The following are the highlights of the group during the month of December 2019 (follow the details of the political arrests at the end of the report):• Lawyers for Justice continued to monitor 17 cases of detention in the West Bank in December 2019 for political or trade union activity, or against the background of freedom of opinion and expression.• 6 of the detainees during the month of December are still being held by the Palestinian security services.• Two political detainees are still being held by the security services; they were detained during the previous months, the first of February 2019, and the other in the month of November 2019. The total number of those who still in detention is 8.• 4 of the political detainees during the month of December are university students.• 5 of the political detainees raised allegations of torture and miss-treatment during their arrest and / or investigation.• 5 of the political prisoners were arrested illegally on behalf of the governors during this month, without presenting them to any judicial authority.• 4 of those arrested during previous months; they were released during the month of December, after legal follow-up from the group.• “Lawyers for Justice” obtained the acquittal of the released detainee A.A. from the charges attributed to him during the first session of the trial after the prosecution presented the investigative file without providing any other evidence, while the Public Prosecution decided to save the investigative file of the released detainee A.A., because there was no Any evidence linking him to the charge.• Lawyers for justice group have followed dozens of trial sessions in cases of political detainees or human rights defenders, current and former.• “Lawyers for Justice” attended the second session of the trial of the late Israa Gharib, as part of the legal supervision of fair trial guarantees, and issued a statement of its progress.• Lawyers for Justice issued a set of press releases and urgent appeals in various cases, and launched a legal and other educational campaign on the occasion of the International Day against Violence against Women, via social media.Notes and recommendations:• The group expresses its concern about the continuation of political arrests on the background of political, trade union and student activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and calls for a halt to the pursuit of university students due to their union activities.• The acquittal cases obtained by a number of detainees during the previous months due to insufficient evidence, and keeping the files of other detainees for the same reason, demonstrate the use of criminal charges by the human rights community to pursue political activists, human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience, where charges such as “collection” are used. And receive money, ”“ possession of weapons, ”“ inciting sectarian strife, ”“ vilification of power, ”and others, to cover up the real reason for the arrest.• The group recommends that an investigation be opened into the allegations of torture and miss-treatment raised by a number of detainees, a number of which have been recorded in the public prosecution records, in compliance with Articles 10 and 13 of the Palestinian Basic Law, Articles 5 and 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Articles 1, 4 and 16 of the Convention against Torture And other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, which the State of Palestine has signed, and Articles 7, 9 and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the State of Palestine has acceded.• The group calls for stopping the detention of the governors, which is considered an administrative detention without a decision or judicial permission, as the Palestinian Basic Law affirmed in Article (11/2) that “it is not permissible to arrest, search, imprison or restrict his freedom with any restriction or prevent him from moving Except by a judicial order in accordance with the provisions of the law, ”and in compliance with Articles 8, 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in compliance with Articles 9/3 and 14/3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which the State of Palestine joined. Details of the political arrests that the group followed in 12/2019:1. Q.F resident of Tulkarm, a university student, was arrested by the General Intelligence Service on 4/12/2019, and he was transferred to the headquarters of the General Intelligence Service in Jericho, his family did not know about his place of detention until lawyers for justice issued an urgent appeal To find out the location of his arrest after five days, and he was arrested on the authority of the governor of Tulkarm, he raised allegations of torture and miss-treatment, where he told “Lawyers for Justice” that he tortured, and that his hands were tied and hung in the door, and he was released on 11/12/2019, knowing that he was arrested because of his union activities at the university.2. A.A a resident of the Nablus governorate, arrested by the Preventive Security Service on December 11, 2019. The prosecution charged him with defamation against the authority. He denied the charge before the prosecution and said that he was arrested because of his participation in receiving one of the freed prisoners in his town. “Lawyers for Justice” on a decision of the Magistrate’s Court to release him on 12/17/2019 with 200 dinars guarantee.3. A.T resident of Tulkarm, a former prisoner in the occupation prisons, arrested by the Preventive Security Service in Tulkarm on 12/14/2019, he was arrested on the authority of the governor of Tulkarm. “Lawyers for Justice” group lodged an appeal against his illegal arrest. The project is before the Supreme Court of Justice, and