Press Releases

On 10 December 2001, the prosecution of MK Dr. Azmi Bishara and two of his parliamentary assistants, Mr. Ashraf Qurtam and Mr. Musa Diab, began before a panel of three judges at the Nazareth...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled on a petition submitted in January 2000 by Adalah, on behalf of the National Committee of Arab Mayors, regarding the government’s discriminatory...

On 6 December 2001, Adalah Staff Attorney Marwan Dalal sent a letter to the Minister of Education, Limor Livnat, demanding an end to the involvement of the General Security Services (GSS or...

On 19-20 November 2001, Shlomo Ben Ami and Ehud Barak, the Minister of Internal Security and the Prime Minister respectively in October 2000, testified before the Commission of Inquiry (“the...

On Monday, 10 December 2001, at 9 am, the trial against MK Dr. Azmi Bishara and two of his parliamentary assistants, Musa Diab and Ashraf Qurtam, will begin. The trial will take place in the...

Today, MK Dr. Azmi Bishara submitted a motion to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel asking to transfer one of his criminal case files, opened before the Jerusalem Magistrate Court, to...

On 27 November 2001, Jerusalem District Attorney Moshe Lador filed a motion to the Jerusalem Magistrate Court requesting that MK Dr. Azmi Bishara’s trial, currently set to begin on 21...

Today, family members of four Palestinian citizens of Israel killed by Israeli police in October 2000 responded to a recommendation to exhume the bodies of their sons. Adalah’s General...

On Thursday, 15 November 2001, five Haifa University students were convicted by the University’s Disciplinary Committee on charges stemming from their involvement in a demonstration held at...

On 12 November 2001, the Magistrate Court of Akka ruled to quash a demolition order, issued by the head of the Misgav Local Committee for Planning and Building (“Misgav Planning...

Adalah Argues That They Have Direct Responsibility for the Killing of 13 Palestinian Citizen Demonstrators and for the Injury of Hundreds of Others Former Minister of Internal Security Shlomo Ben...

On Tuesday, 13 November 2001, the Supreme Court began hearings on a petition concerning the discriminatory policy applied by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) in distributing balance grants to the...

Today, Israeli police released two Palestinian citizens from the Arab village of Kufr Manda, Saleh Hassan Bushnaq, 18, and Addel Jamil Abed el Halim, 40, following two weeks of detention. The...

Adalah has begun preparations for the legal representation of Arab Member of Knesset (MK) Dr. Azmi Bishara. Following yesterday’s vote by the full Knesset Assembly to remove his immunity, as...

At a Supreme Court hearing held on 5 November 2001, Adalah rejected two proposals from the Attorney General’s office submitted in response to a petition demanding that seven unrecognized...

On Monday, 5 November 2001, the Magistrate Court of Jerusalem refused Adalah’s request to dismiss the indictment against Mr. Abdel-Menem Abu Saleh, the bereaved father who was charged with...

In a hearing today in the Haifa District Court, Justice Ginat overturned the decision of Professor Hayim Kutiel, head of the Haifa University Disciplinary Committee, to suspend three students...

On 31 October 2001, the Haifa University Disciplinary Committee issued a decision to expel three Arab students, members of the Arab Students Committee, from the University. On 2 November 2001,...

On 30 October 2001, Adalah submitted a legal opinion to the Knesset House Committee, the Committee's legal advisor and Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein asking the Knesset Committee not to remove...

On 30 October 2001, Adalah Staff Attorney Jamil Dakwar filed a complaint with Eran Shindar, the Director ofMahash (the Ministry of Justice Police Investigation Unit) and MK Avraham Burg, the...