In violation of the Basic Law, the Public Meetings Law, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Palestinian security forces disperse a peaceful gathering in front of the cabinet. This assembly was called by the founding body of the state employees union, which followed the applicable laws and notified the appropriate official bodies of the meeting's time, location, purpose, and peaceful nature. We demand an investigation to ensure that all those responsible for dispersing this assembly and preventing journalists from covering it, as they deemed it illegal, are held accounta...

The undersigned CSOs examined the draft of decree-law No. (….) of the year 2023 regulating publication, press, and media, that is being secretly in prepared. It's ironic that the government and the Ministry of Information are attempting to pass legislation regulating copyrights, media, and the press, and yet they're doing so behind closed doors, without any public input or consultation with the media, despite being those most affected by its provisions. The undersigned parties have noted that this proposed legislation contains provisions that constitute clear violations of the interna...

MUSAWA obtained a copy (attached above) of a presidential decree issued on August 16, 2019, amending the formation of the High Coordinating Council of the Justice Sector, which was formed pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 7 of 2019 issued on July 31, 2019. This new amended decree added the following members to the Council: Chief justice of "Sharia Judiciary", president of the Supreme Administrative Court "Administrative Judiciary", and chief of the Security Forces Judiciary “Military Justice”. This new decree came shortly after the issuance of presidential decree No...