This decree paves the way for a totalitarian regime and represents a reality that undermines The Basic Law, and it started to manifest with the issuance of the decree-law no. 5 of the year 2020 regarding the presidential office, which we warned against its implications, results, and risks on both the political and legal system that is adopted by The Declaration of Independence and regulated by The Basic Law. However, it was passed and implemented in silence in a subservient-like manner. We are now faced with a system that accumulates all the powers in the hands of the presidential office, by perpetu...

Litigation is a guaranteed and protected right for all people, and every Palestinian has the right to seek redress in the judicial system. Laws may not contain any provisions that provide immunity to any administrative decision or action or against judicial review and judicial error shall result in a remedy by the National Authority. The public perception of the justice system is an integral part that provides the litigants with confidence and ease in achieving justice, and any infringement on this part causes them to lose faith in the justice system and adversely affects their hope of reaching justice and protecting their rights. The main requirements that shape th...

Your Excellency, Attorney General Mr. Akram Al- khateeb Your Excellency Mr. Jamil Sajidya, Head of the Human Rights Unit in the Public Prosecution, MUSAWA – The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Legal Profession and the Judiciary extends its greetings and expresses that it received a complaint from lawyer Mr. Mohammad Hussein from Nablus, in his capacity as representative of Na’el Qasem Shtayyeh who was detained 8 days ago by order of the governor of Nablus. It states that the governor instructed t...