Adalah :: Newsletter

Volume 73, July 2010

Political Rights

	Inter-Parliamentary Union emphasizes that revocation of MK Haneen Zoabi’s parliamentary privileges amounts to illegal punishment for political expression and urges Knesset to rescind its decision; Adalah to represent MK Haneen Zoabi

	Following Adalah’s intervention, Inter-Parliamentary Union emphasizes that deportation of Palestinian Parliamentarians is illegal and a cruel and inhuman act; urges Israel to stop deportation proceedings immediately

	Adalah petitions District Court to demand change from “Druze” to “Arab” nationality in the Population Registry for citizen of Israel

Prisoners' Rights

Obstacles to prisoners' access to Israeli courts: Position paper by Adalah and the Legal Clinic for Prisoners' Rights & Rehabilitation at Haifa University

Police Brutality

Adalah to the Justice Minister and Attorney General: Pardoning a police officer convicted of killing an Arab citizen of Israel will show the state's unwillingness to change patterns of violent behavior

Land and Planning Rights

Adalah and the Arab Center for Alternative Planning demand cancellation of regional plan to establish “Harish”, a new Jewish ultra-Orthodox city in the Arab Wadi ‘Ara area of Israel

Adalah submits amended Supreme Court petition demanding cancellation of "admission committees" for excluding Arab citizens from state lands

Economic and Social Rights

Supreme Court: State must explain why Arab village of Aramshe receives no state subsidies to produce and market eggs and why there are no clear and equal criteria for the allocation of these benefits

Adalah to Israeli Government: Lift ban on West Bank Palestinian-manufactured products from entering East Jerusalem

New Report

Launch of new report by PCATI and Adalah: "Exposed: The Treatment of Palestinian Detainees During Operation Cast Lead"

The Cases of
Ameer Makhoul and Dr. Omar Saeed

(Omar Saeed and Ameer Makhoul)

Ameer Makhoul’s defense team requests that the Haifa District Court stop all judicial proceedings against him until they are allowed a private and confidential meeting with him

Dr. Omar Saeed sentenced to seven months in prison

UN Advocacy

New submission to UN Committee Against Torture by Adalah, PHR-I and Al Mezan

	End Israeli Torture

Adalah’s Fifth Annual Law Students’ Conference

New Position Paper of NGO Partner

PHR-I: The Humanitarian Committee - A false hope to the many who have been affected by the Citizenship Law

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