Lawyers for Justice

Lawyers for justice condemns the acts of security services for suppressing a peaceful protest that was held today in Ramallah to denounce the ongoing war and attacks against Gaza.

Lawyers for justice condemns the acts of security services for suppressing a peaceful protest that was held today in Ramallah to denounce the ongoing war and attacks against Gaza. During, the security services were present in both civil and military clothing, as repression occurred, assaults on children took place and while filming the demonstration, and personal sources also varied according to what was distinguished by attendance. During the past week, a solidarity march with prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons was suppressed as a result of what they had been subjected to since October 7. During the march, the protestors were suppressed. The group documented the attack and wounding of a prisoner’s son by security agents who suppressed the demonstration. The group also condemns the continued suppression practiced by security services, which breaches constitutional rights stipulated by the Palestinian constitutional law, and the increasing pace of political arrests that has targeted dozens of civilians over the past two weeks in various cities in The West bank under the grounds of opinion expression and political affiliation. the group also assures that the cases of repression and arbitrary arrests reflects the lack of seriousness of the decisions and statements issued by the new government related to correcting the conditions of public freedoms, and also contradicts the decree-law issued by the head of authority approving the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights within the system of national laws that guarantee civil and political rights and freedoms. Till here, Lawyers for Justice Issued in 10-5-2024.

A protest in front of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ramallah to demand the release of Ammar Banat

A group of human rights organizations and activists sit-in today in front of the headquarters of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ramallah, to demand for immediate release of Ammar Banat, one of the witnesses in the case of the assassination of the political critic Nizar Banat, who were arrested in May 19th, 2022. The statement as follows: An Invitation for immediate action  A call to the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations of Human Rights in West Bank, and to all Human Rights organizations in Palestine; we do request for immediate intervene to release “Ammar Banat” who’s one of the main witnesses in the assassination  NIZAR BANAT case, Ammar is  detained arbitrary in PA prisons charged by shooting on one of the accused persons in Nizar Banat case. The continuous restrictions on Banat’s family, the way of continuing the arbitrary arrest is a major violation to the Human Rights system and a violation to the International Conventions that Palestine joined. We request all the Human Rights Organizations to do all the possible work to release Ammar Banat. Freedom to Ammar and Justice to Nizar! The popular Alliance for Change