The Draft Decree-Law on VAT Violates both the Human Rights and the Principles of the Rule of Law. MUSAWA closely examined The VAT draft Decree-Law, without a number, for the year 2022, and reaffirmed its refusal and objection of the issuance of decree-laws, due to its direct conflict with The Basic Law for what it represents as a usurpation of the legislative authority’s jurisdiction, and its aim to tamper with the components of the legal system, by perpetuating the absence of the legislative authority, in addition to changing the structure of the legal system in a way that a...

The monitoring team of MUSAWA documented the trial proceedings in the case of the murder of community activist Nizar Banat, which was held at the military court’s headquarters in Ramallah today, Tuesday, 06/09/2022. The team's attention was drawn to the fact that the defendants were present at the trial session as free men, even though the court did not issue a release order during the previous court hearings. The team looked into the circumstances of the release, in which MUSAWA learned, from close and well-informed sources, that the defendants’ attorney had previously applied for the release of the defendants during the...

The Judicial Decision to Stop the Strike of the Engineers Association in Defiance of the Principle of Open Justice and the Right of Defense   Following the Administrative Court’s decision to stop the Engineers Association’s strike without calling it for trial, without hearing its defenses and in absentia, and in a secret manner that defies the principle of open justice and the right of defense, MUSAWA considers the said ruling, which came, according to its wording, an implementation of the Administrative Courts Decree-law, as a serious infringement on the r...