January 2020 report
Lawyers for Justice January 2020 report:17 cases of ‘political detention’, and 4 of the detainees raise allegations of torture and miss-treatment A contribution from “Lawyers for Justice” group in monitoring and documenting the Palestinian human rights situation, publishes this third monthly report for January 2020, 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 January 2020 (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 January for political or trade union backgrounds, or against freedom of opinion and expression.2 of the political prisoners held during the month of January are university students.4 of the political detainees raised allegations of torture and miss-treatment during their arrest and / or investigation.The group’s lawyers and professors followed sixteen court hearings in cases of current and former political detainees or human rights defenders.Lawyers for Justice issued a set of press releases and urgent appeals for various cases.Lawyers for Justice has released its official website documenting cases that the group has been following in recent years, ” http://lawyers4justice.ps/ “.A political and human rights activist, a resident of Hebron, was presented to the Hebron Magistrate Court, where he is being tried on the background of his writing, which is published on the social networking site Facebook. And by a decision of the court, it was decided to give the public prosecutor a final deadline to submit all its evidence, as the session was adjourned to Wednesday 4/3/2020.The group launched an urgent appeal for the implementation of a judicial decision challenging the elections of the local authority in Al Samoua municipality, in which the group deplored the failure of the official authorities, including the Ministry of Local Government, not to implement the judicial decisions issued by the Electoral Court in Bethlehem, and then the Jerusalem Court of Appeals, the last of which is the Court of Cassation in Decision issued on 5/12/2019 in the case of vetoing No. 445/2019.Lawyers for Justice followed the session of the Political Detainee Court, Alaa Fahmi Abdel Karim Bashir, where the session was held on 15/1/2020, and she is a prisoner in the occupation prisons, who is serving a sentence of administrative detention. She is being tried before the Qalqilya Magistrate Court on charges of provoking racist prejudices. The session was postponed to 12/2.2020 as the Public Prosecution presented it .The session of the previous detainee court, Suha Badran Muhammad Dar Jbara, was held on 13/1/2020, and she is a community activist, who has been tried before the Jericho Court of First Instance since the past year. The sixteenth session, which was held on the date mentioned above, ended with a stamp of evidence between the Public Prosecution and giving a deadline to the “Lawyers for Justice “to present you have shown . Details of the political arrests the group followed in 1/2020: 1- A.B from the residents of Ramallah, a former prisoner who was arrested by the Preventive Security Service on 9/1/2020, and charged with collecting and receiving money from illegal associations, was released on 23/1/2020 after completing the sponsorship procedures that were It was issued in accordance with the decision of the Magistrate’s Court in Ramallah on 22/1/2020 and it is a judicial bail of 3000 dinars. 2- M.D from the residents of Ramallah Governorate, a former prisoner, who was arrested by the Preventive Security Service on December 24, 2019 by summoning him to the Preventive Security headquarters. The prosecution charged him with collecting and receiving funds from illegal associations. He denied the charge before the prosecution, and obtained “Lawyers For justice “on his decision to release him on 12/1/2020 with a cash guarantee of 500 dinars. 3- A.T resident of Tulkarm Governorate, arrested by the Preventive Security Service in Tulkarem on December 14, 2019, arrested on the authority of the Governor of Tulkarm. The “Lawyers for Justice” group lodged an appeal against his unlawful arrest before the Supreme Court of Justice, and a session was held for him on 12/30/2019, the session was postponed to 6/1/2020 to present the defense evidence, and they were released on 14/1/2020. 4- B.A resident of Ramallah Governorate, arrested by the General Intelligence Service on 12/12/2019, and the Public Prosecution charged him with collecting and receiving money from illegal associations, where he informed the group that he was subjected to torture and miss-treatment that he raised before the Public Prosecution, and he informed an agent The prosecutor said, “He was beaten while being interrogated. They were hooked by hands from behind, and they kept me locked.”It is noteworthy that he is still detained by the General Intelligence Service despite the issuance of a release order against him on 21/1.2020 after he deposited with his family the value of the monetary guarantee set by the court, which are one thousand Jordanian dinars. After that, he will be brought before the Public Prosecution office for possession of a weapon on 23.1.2020. 5- H.R residents of Ramallah Governorate, one of the wounded from the occupation and listed on the list of the wounded of the intifada, was arrested by the General Intelligence Service on December 22, 2019, and the prosecution charged him with collecting and receiving funds from illegal associations, but he told the Public Prosecutor’s office in the presence of “lawyers” For the sake of justice “that his investigation revolves around his political activity, and H.R raised before the Public Prosecutor allegations of torture and miss-treatment, as he said with the ghost, hanging his hands on the wall, and preventing him from showering; where he suffers from a skin disease that requires him to shower daily, and medications are not provided His own family until Monday evening, December 23, after his father was allowed to enter For medications, and in the context of the allegation of miss-treatment, H.R said that he was threatened with placing a wet pouch in