Lawyers for Justice

Between General intelligence and preventive and occupation.. Fahd Yassin scores dozens of arrests

Without an arrest warrant, with a police manner, the Palestinian intelligence service arrested Fahd Yassin from Tulkarm while he was going to his work, in Tulkarm to Industrial Secondary School on 17/9/2019, Fahad was on his way to school, before arriving to his workplace at 7:30 a.m., he was stopped by a public car, and they asked me to come with them. Fahd says that the car that stopped him was not for the government, and he told lawyers for justice the details of his arrest, saying: “Someone in civilian clothes got out of the car, and said: that he was from the General intelligence service, asking me to come with him, and I told him, you have to prove to me that you are, he showed me his card with his name hidden, and I saw the logo of the General intelligence.” On the other hand the Preventive Security Service in Tulkarm interrogated Fahed on unrelated charges, and the story was originally for someone else who was not in the investigation. Fahed points out that everything was clear to them and they knew very well that he had nothing to do with the charges that were directed at him, however, “the competition in detention and the speculation of the intelligence and preventive agencies against each other at work, prompted the intelligence service to arrest me after obtaining some information that I know, and the subject is a financial issue of union activity within the university, nothing more,” says by Fahed. Fahd stayed 19 days without any proof of the charges against him; in addition they prevented his family from visiting, or him contacting his family and workplace, although he was a new employee and needed to justify the reasons for his absence from work. Fahed assured to lawyers for justice that this time was not the first; Fahed was arrested in 2016 by the security services and stayed there for 51 days, At the time he was about to graduate, and he was deprived of graduation because he could not finish the rest of his credits, and after he was arrested, Israeli soldiers arrested him on 4/1/2019 and stayed for 19 months and paid a fine of 6,000 shekels, the administrative arrests did not end here, but the preventive security forces re-arrested him 40 days after he left. The numbers of Fahed arrests at the Palestinian Intelligence Service were 7 and more than 35 interviews, the first interview was in 2011 and the first arrest was in 2013, while the total arrests at the Preventive Security Service were 2 arrests, and 4 interviews, and the number of arrests in the occupation were 2 arrests and 6 interviews.

Lawyers for justice discovered the legal violations in Suha Jbara’s case

The former political prisoner Suha Jbara is still tried by the criminal court of Jericho, despite the decision of releasing her and the 50,000 Jordanian dinars bail. Although, more than nine trials have been held so far, they are still being tried in a slow proceeding and contrary to the principle of speedy adjudication, which is required by the rules of justice and fair trial standards. According to the Code of criminal procedure No.3 of 2001 the detention was unlawful, and involved the arbitrariness of the authorities in the use of the powers entrusted to them under the provisions of the law, where the law in force required the judicial police to abide by the procedures and abide by the legal controls provided by the legislator, such as obtaining a legal memorandum to fetch or arrest any suspects, taking into account the privacy of any girl being arrested. The lawmaker restricted these cases in narrow cases, including the case of flagrante delicto, which wasn’t achieved in the case of the activist Suha Jbara, and therefore the case of the arrest of Jbara beyond the exception provided by the law in this regard, and therefore the arrest and detention procedures are null and void. Jbara told lawyers for justice that she “was forced during the investigation to sign under threat, confessions on charges that weren’t true, such as collecting and receiving illegal money. She also said: “I was charged with intelligence with the Israeli occupation, and investigators pressed me to admit this charge.” According to these charges, Suha’s lawyer (Mohanad Karajah) said: the investigation was carried out on charges of “collecting and receiving illegal funds,” pointing out that most of the files he investigated with such a charge have not been referred to the competent court, reflecting the lack of seriousness in such files, which often come within the framework of Political arrests by security services against activists, he added, “Suha’s family has previously denied the charges against her.” Mohanad Karajah revealed that the leak of a document of concern to his client, fabricated and falsified, which goes beyond the law and the Public Prosecution, listed the details and facts of the charges against the detainee. Karajah pointed out that the prosecutor usually submits a request to extend the detention before the competent court of the accused for the required period, without explaining the details of the facts and the reasons for the accusation, the statement of the Public Prosecution announced on 22 November, in which it affirmed its commitment to the confidentiality of investigations in order to preserve the conduct of the investigation and to ensure access to completed justice. After interrogating with Suha, she was taken to the detective And then converted to what he called the “slaughterhouse” of Jericho for 4 days, and then transferred to Jericho Central Prison. Mentioning that on 3/11/2018, a Palestinian security force, known as Force 101, arrested the activist Suha Badran Jabara (31 years), after blockade her house by the security force and took her by force to a security center despite the deterioration of her health, at approximately 03:00, the forces surrounded her house for hours before broken into it by force.

Palestinian Security Violates the Palestinian Law by Arresting the Coordinator of “Youth Assembly against Settlements”

The violations of the Palestinian security forces continues by arresting the activists, specially the Popular Resistance Activists, namely Issa Amro, which the Palestinian security forces arrested him in 06/09/2017, against the background of writing a post on social networking site “Facebook”. The coordinator of the human rights initiative “Youth group against settlements” Issa Amro, is considered as an illegal initiative by the Palestinian security services because of the violation it may cause to the Palestinian security services. Issa Amr told lawyers for justice that what he wrote does not affect, or harm, nor infringe on the Palestinian security service pointed out that he has the right to express his opinion freely and other publications on social networking sites. Issa Amro said: “Preventive security forces raided my house on Sunday night, the day before I was arrested,” and I was not at home at that time, I was in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida, which is threatened by settlement. “ Added to that “They left me a summons to come on Monday morning for the purpose of an interview. I went to the “interview” then I stayed there until evening, then I was told that I was being detained, in the preventive headquarters in Hebron. ” Issa Amro considered the post he wrote as a personal opinion expressing, in which he said “in a journalist with threats from members of the security services against the background of publishing news of the arrest of Ayman al-Qawasmeh, “I wish that every journalist in the country publishes the news because it is 100 percent true and not a rumor, and secondly everyone who was being threaten tell me so we can document for the Europeans and show them how they violate the international law, not everyone should act as a law or a state. The law is clear and unequivocal, the detained journalist Ayman Qawasmeh, there is a district, a society, journalists’ union, and activists who will stop with him, the security men are enforcing laws and regulations. ” Freedom to Ayman Al – Qawasmi.” The decision of Law No. (16) On Cybercrime contains serious provisions that would violate and unjustifiably restrict a range of citizens’ rights and fundamental freedoms, especially their right to freedom of opinion and expression, and their right to privacy is guaranteed by the amended Basic Law, the Declaration of Palestinian Independence and the international human rights conventions to which the State of Palestine is a party. (16, 20, 28, 51), as well as articles (32, 33, 34, 35, 37 -40, 41, 42, 43, 44), these include many provisions that would prejudice the right to privacy and the privacy of citizens’ by living without providing any legal controls, and the most important is judicial authorization, and notifying the accused of these procedures. Under this law, ‘Issa’ Amro was arrested several times from the occupation for his previous work as a researcher at B’Tselem, which is an Israeli non-governmental organization active in documenting human rights violations in the occupied territories, and this reinforced the Palestinian security apparatus by arresting him for his previous activities and writings, which are considered freedom of opinion.

The General Intelligence prevents to publish a book for a prisoner

The General Intelligence Service has banned the publication of the prisoner’s book “The Path of the Truthful” in the Israeli jails, Mohammed Subhi Abu Tabikh. One of the printing presses in Beitunia refused to publish the book in Palestinian libraries after the families of the prisoners went to it under the pretext, and there was a decision by the General Intelligence in Ramallah to prevent the publication and the distribution. Lawyers for Justice had applied to the Attorney General to allow the publication of the book as partly affecting the right to culture and education. Whereas, banning the publication of the book violates the principles protected by Palestine, by preserving the cultural situation of Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli jails. Abu Tabikh has spent more than 15 years in Israeli jails and is sentenced to life in prison. The prisoner Mohammad Abu Tabikh, had contacted lawyers for justice in order to help him legally to publish the book, which was banned by the General Intelligence Service, and lawyers for justice volunteered to provide any agency to him in the future.

Security cooperation between Preventive Security and Israel, leads prisoners to administrative detention

Після того, як Служба превентивної безпеки Палестини видала наказ про звільнення політичного ув’язненого Алаа Башира після її арешту під час перебування в мечеті Османа Бін Аффана в місті Калькіля на північному Західному березі, двадцять п’ять співробітників сил безпеки заарештували її без вказуючи будь-які причини або висвітлюючи ордер на арешт, ізраїльська окупація заарештувала її безпосередньо, також без попередження. Команда захисту вказала громадській думці, що з моменту призначення в цій справі вони змогли бути присутніми на перших слідчих засіданнях 12/05/2019, під час яких затриманий Алаа заперечував будь-який зв’язок із звинуваченням, яке розслідувало, розпалюючи расову ворожнечу, додавши, що захист прийшов на засідання слідства після важких зусиль, як зазначено в першій заяві захисту, зробленій з цього приводу. Директор юристів з правосуддя (Моханад Караджа) сказав: ізраїльська газета (Yedioth Ahronoth) цитує високопоставленого чиновника Палестинської влади, який сказав, що арешт Алаа відбувся на тлі планування вибуху в Тель-Авіві як запит від ІДІЛ, який викликав гнів комітету захисту Алаа, особливо тому, що результати остаточного розслідування не були розголошені компетентним судом. “ «Адвокати за справедливість», які захищають Алаа Башира, заявили в заяві, що «Алаа Башир була повторно заарештована 13 червня, незважаючи на рішення про її звільнення, вони також просили продовжити її затримання на 15 днів вдруге, за загалом 30 днів за звинуваченням у розпалюванні расової ворожнечі, що є посяганням на верховенство права та втручанням у роботу судової системи. Караджа зазначив, що Алаа страждає від наслідків свого тривалого голодування у в’язницях ПА, і немає жодного компетентного органу, який би розглядав її справу та стан здоров’я, він також додав, що “всі міжнародні закони, які слід враховувати в цьому питанні, не тільки справа Башира була проігнорована, але багато справ були приховані через політичні, релігійні, расові тощо». і Алаа аль-Башир була однією зі справ, яку Ізраїль проігнорував з політичних причин без чітких доказів, і досі Моханад Караджа, її адвокат, намагається надати Алаа її основні права згідно з міжнародним правом, але немає відповіді. Башир була заарештована 9 травня всередині мечеті Османа Бін Аффана в одному з сіл Калькільї, коли вона готувала уроки запам’ятовування Священного Корану протягом місяця Рамадан. Це сталося після того, як 25 співробітників сил безпеки вторглися в мечеть, не отримавши ордер і не повідомляючи їй або її родині причини арешту, ізраїльська окупація намагалася уникнути свого статусу окупанта палестинської території, намагаючись виправдати своє існування як адміністратора окупованої території, виходячи з того, що Ізраїль має вдалася до військових наказів для перевірки своїх бойових дій, використовуючи привід своїх «військових цілей» для порушення міжнародних гуманітарних норм, прав людини та резолюцій Ради Безпеки ООН азартних ігор. Після підписання в Осло в 1993 році Ізраїль видав тисячі військових наказів, щоб розглянути свої плани з консолідації свого контролю над окупованими територіями, тому будь-яке адміністративне затримання походить від Ізраїлю представляє превентивну безпеку, і проблема в цьому випадку полягає в відсутності медичної допомоги За словами палестинського адвоката Муханнада Караджа, він буде наданий затриманому Алаа аль-Баширу.

Basil Flayyan

After the Magistrate Court based in Ramallah issued to arrest the political and the human rights active Basil Flayyan for 15days, Basil went on hunger strike since August 26, Basil was a student in Berzeit University and his graduation was in September 2/2019. After lawyers for justice group called the international and national organizations to take action about Basil’s case, he finally had the chance to attend his graduation ceremony, with no charges against him.

Izz Aldeen Abu Dayyah

Izz Aldeen Abu Dayyah is from Tulkarim, the preventive security service arrested him on 07/24/2019, with no legal evidence. Since then Abu Dayyah was detained 27 days without any court decision to release him, according to Tulkarim’s governor Abu Dayyah was arrested because he’s a political active.

Lara Kanan

Ms. Lara Kanan is a 33 year old Palestinian journalist who works as the Nablus Representative for Altra News.  She also works for the Mada Center for Developments and Media Freedoms.  She is a member of the Journalist Union of Palestine.  She has no political affiliations. The June 30, 2018 protest against the blockade of Gaza was organized by factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the Martyr’s Square in the center of Nablus.  Ms. Kanan believes she was targeted by these individuals because she is a member of the media.  Before taking part in the assault, one of these four individuals asked Ms. Kanan to stop filming the protest.  When she refused to stop filming, he was joined by three other men and they all attacked her, including by pulling her hair, hitting her arm, and dragging her backwards.  After the assault, they were able to flee, despite the presence of security personnel in the area. On July 2, 2018, Ms. Kanan filed a criminal complaint against these four individuals with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Nablus Court of Reconciliation.  While she did not name the individuals specifically in the complaint, she is aware of two of their identities and is willing to come forward with their names.  On July 3, 2018, Ms. Kanan went to Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus.  She had pain in her left upper extremity, neck, and back and the physician observed that she had cyanosis and gave her medical attention.