Prior to the elections, the Central Elections Committee (CEC) disqualified Arab MK Haneen Zoabi. Adalah successfully defended MK Zoabi before the Supreme Court, which allowed her to run. The CEC also banned an elections campaign video released by Arab party Balad/Tajammoa’, a decision that Adalah got overturned unanimously in the Supreme Court.
Adalah also represented Arab MKs Mohammed Barakeh and Said Naffaa on politically-motivated charges against them for participating in demonstrations and arranging a trip for Arab Druze religious leaders to holy sites in Syria respectively, with the Nazareth District Court deciding that MK Naffaa’s parliamentary immunity did not protect him.
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