Memo Addressed to Attorney General and Director of the Ombudsman and Human Rights Office on Preventing a Lawyer from Meeting her Client   Respected Attorney General Mr. Akram Al-Khatib, His Excellency Brigadier Rudayna Bani Odeh, Director of the Ombudsman and Human Rights Office,   MUSAWA - The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession expresses its greetings, and demonstrates that it received a complaint from lawyer Ms. Marwa Raddad, the lawyer of client S.H who is arrested in Tulka...

Based on MUSAWA's role as an independent civil monitoring body, and its belief in democracy and the principle of direct periodic elections, the peaceful transfer of power, and the right of citizens to choose their representatives, MUSAWA formed a team to monitor the elections of the Palestinian Bar Council for 2022-2025 in the Jerusalem and Gaza stations, which was held on May 15, 2022, with the approval of the Central Elections Committee of the Bar association. MUSAWA’s monitoring team included 24 observers, distributed over 11 stations in all of the northern governorates, and one station...

Respected ladies and gentlemen of the Bar Council, Subject: Bar Association's opinion on Decree-laws amending the judicial legislations, the enforcement of which is deferred until first of June MUSAWA- The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession expresses its greetings and demonstrates that, despite its commitment to its legal position opposing the issuance of Decree-laws, it demands that in light of the working mechanisms followed by your distinguished Council with regards to Decree-laws, and the Bar Association’s members...