Esteemed President and Members of the Central Elections Committee of the Sharia’ Bar Association in Gaza, Subject: MUSAWA's Monitoring Report on the Elections of the Sharia’ Bar Council (2023-2027) MUSAWA-The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession - extends its warmest greetings and is pleased to share with you its monitoring report on the Sharia’ Bar Council (2023-2027) elections, which took place on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. t...

Once again, the appointed High Judicial Council issues instructions amending laws supplemental to the constitution-this time the Penal Code- without legal competence or constitutional legitimacy, and with a weak claim: “For better management of criminal cases, and fast, low-cost trial procedures” as described by its issuer. We stress the illegitimacy and unconstitutionality of such instructions, demanding that they be set aside and abolished immediately. Therefore, this position paper aims to show all the risks entailed in these instructions, as they restrict and blatantly interfere with the judges’ work, turning them i...

Esteemed Attorney General Dr. Mohammad Al-Nahhal / Gaza, Subject: A Complaint of Serious Physical Assault Pending Investigation since September 2019 MUSAWA-The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, extends its best greetings and expresses that it received on 23/01/2023 a second complaint from Mr. Iyad Othman Kamel Shbeir from Khan Yunis, in regards to being physically assaulted in his workplace at the Shbeir Press in Khan Yunis by unknown persons. In addition to that, the complainant...