VIDEO | Stanley Cohen (@StanleyCohenLaw) speaking at The Meeting for Justice in Egypt

Published on Sep 2, 2013 by IHH IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has hosted “The Meeting for Justice in Egypt” on 31 Aug and 1 Sept 2013 in Istanbul with attendance of more than 50 jurists and activists from 20 countries such as USA, Spain, France, Sweden, Belgium, South Africa, Libya, Tunis, Egypt and Turkey including […]

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Palestinian lawyers protest against attack on their colleague

MEMO | June 17, 2013 The PBA has asked all its advocates to gather in front of the Palestinian Police headquarters in Ramallah on Tuesday morning for a press conferenceThe Palestinian Bar Association (PBA) has announced that industrial action will take place on Monday and Tuesday in protest against an attack on one of their […]

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Israel banned Shireen Issawi from practicing her job as a lawyer for 2 more years

[ PIC 13/06/2013 – 09:16 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli authorities banned the Jerusalemite lawyer Shirin Issawi, the sister of prisoner Samer Issawi, from practicing her work under “security reasons.” The decision was issued by the Israeli prosecutor, where she was banned over the 3 previous years from practicing her work as a […]

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Lawyers banned from seeing suspect in settler stabbing

Maan News Agency | May 1, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have banned lawyers from visiting a man suspected of fatally stabbing a settler in Nablus, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Wednesday. Salam al-Zaghal, from Tulkarem, on Tuesday fatally stabbed a settler while he waited at a hitch-hiking spot in the occupied West Bank. […]

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#ArafatJaradat | Palestinian lawyers to boycott Israeli courts

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT Continuous Updates Maan News Agency | Febr 24, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Lawyers representing Palestinians will boycott Israeli courts on Monday in protest at the death of Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody. The Ministry of Detainee Affairs announced the strike on Sunday, a day after 30-year-old Jaradat […]

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Tunisian lawyers to sue Israel over Abu Jihad assassination

Khalil al-Wazir, known as Abu Jihad, was the deputy of late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. (File photo) PressTV | Mon Nov 5, 2012 2:58AM GMT Two Tunisian lawyers plan to file a lawsuit against the Israeli regime for the 1988 assassination of the deputy of late Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat. […]

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International lawyers call for the prosecution of Israeli war crime suspects

MEMO | Monday, 01 October 2012 13:30   The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) ended its bureau meeting in the Gaza Strip yesterday, 30 September, with a declaration affirming that Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip constitute a form of collective punishment and “a precursor to genocide” which has resulted in war crimes and […]

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Eichel prisoners punished by shackling their hands during lawyers’ visits

[ PIC 02/08/2012 – 12:24 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Eichel prison administration in Be’er Sheva started shackling the prisoners’ hands during their meeting with lawyers as an imposed punishment. Lawyer Rami Alami, who visited Eichel prison on Wednesday, said that he met prisoner Amjad Izzat Kabha, 43, sentenced to 18 years, who told him that […]

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#PalHunger | Lawyer: No deal to free Mahmoud Sarsak

URGENT | June 14, 2012 | 20 children started hunger strike in Israeli prison Maan | June 18, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — No deal has been reached to free Mahmoud al-Sarsak, who entered his 92nd day of hunger strike Monday, his lawyer said. Mohammad Jaberein, who visited al-Sarsak in Ramle prison clinic on Sunday, told […]

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Lawyers for Freedom Flotilla victims reject Palmer report

[ 05/09/2011 – 12:21 PM ] ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Lawyers for the victims of Freedom Flotilla massacre strongly denounced the UN report (Palmer report) about Israel’s deadly attack on an aid convoy of six ships on May 31, 2010 in international waters of the mediterranean sea. The lawyers expressed their condemnation in response to leaked documents […]

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Inhumane treatment meted to lawyers visiting Palestinian captives

[ 26/08/2011 – 05:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC) Anan Oudeh, layer for Al-Dameer Institute for Welfare of Captives said that layers visiting Palestinian captives suffer inhumane treatment when visiting their clients in Israeli occupation jails. Oudeh said, in a statement on Thursday, that he went to visit some captives at Askalan central prison but discovered […]

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Arab-Israeli Lawyers File Law Suit Against Israel’s Airport Authorities and Shin Bet

PNN – Palestine News Network – 28.07.11 – 10:56 Tel Aviv – PNN – Three Arab-Israeli lawyers, Yamin Masalha, Shakieb Kubti and Daniel Drabkin, filed a law suit at Nazareth court against the three Israeli  airline companies  El Al, Yesral, and Erkia and also against  the Airports Authority in Israel and the General Security Service […]

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#Airflotilla | Israel blocks lawyers access to detained activists‬‏ – video

RT NEWS Forty pro-Palestinian activists, detained in Israel for trying to reach Gaza, are being denied access to see lawyers. They’re currently detained in Tel Aviv for taking part in airplane aid mission, after their boats were blocked in Greece. RT talks to pro-Palestinian activist Ronnie Barkan, who’s in Tel Aviv.     RT on […]

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MADA Trains Lawyers to Handle Freedom of Expression Violations

23.02.11 – 10:23 Ramallah – PNN – The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) started on Tuesday a three-day workshop aimed at enhancing lawyer’s abilities to manage freedom of expression cases, with a particular focus on media freedoms. Archive The workshop, in partnership with Birzeit University’s Institute of Law, is part of MADA’s […]

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Lawyers from 20 countries discuss charges against Israel over flotilla massacre

[ 12/10/2010 – 07:34 PM ]   BRUSSELS / LONDON, (PIC)– The Freedom Flotilla alliance, meeting in Geneva on Monday, announced that dozens of lawyers from more than 20 countries will meet to discuss suits filed against Israel over its May 31 attack against the Gaza-bound flotilla that ended in the death of nine activists. […]

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