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On 5 August 2002, the Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Adalah on 21 July 2002, against the Official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 protest demonstrations (hereafter "the...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a historic 92-page decision on a petition filed in June 1999 by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), against the mixed Arab-Jewish...

At a hearing on 9 July 2002, the Jerusalem Magistrate Court sentenced Mr. Abdel-Menem Abu Saleh to two months of community service for assaulting Police Sergeant Guy Raif at a March 2001 session of...

On 14 July 2002, the Tel Aviv Administrative District Court heard a petition filed by Adalah on behalf of Ms. Nuran Yigit, a representative of the Belgian-based International Cultural Youth...

Protesting the inhumane conditions faced by approximately 500 Palestinian detainees currently held in Ansar III Detention Center. Arguing that the detention conditions in Ansar III violate the...

On 11 June 2002, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Adalah, seeking to lift the house arrest imposed on Mr. Basil Said, 23, of Kufr Kanna by the Nazareth Magistrate Court. Mr. Said was...

Today, 19 June 2002, Adalah filed a motion to the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events calling on the Commission to allow the families of those killed in October 2000 to...

On Monday, 17 June 2002, the official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 events will enter the second phase of its proceedings - the holding of "warnings hearings." In February 2002, the...

Today, the Supreme Court held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah and the National Committee of Arab Mayors on 6 June 2002, against Knesset Chair Avraham Burg, seeking cancellation of an...

The Government Press Office (GPO) issued a decision on 6 June 2002, announcing that it would cease internal procedures related to the case of Palestinian journalist Ms. Layla Odeh, thereby allowing...

On 4 June 2002, the Supreme Court held a hearing on a petition filed by Adalah demanding that the government reject the criteria currently applied by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) to determine...

On Monday, 10 June 2002, the Supreme Court began hearing a petition challenging the travel restrictions imposed on Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Adalah filed the...

On Sunday, 9 June 2002, the second hearing in the political speeches case of MK Dr. Azmi Bishara took place in the Natserat Illit Magistrate Court before a panel of three judges: Judge Tawfiq...

Today, Adalah and the National Committee of Arab Mayors filed a petition to the Supreme Court against Knesset Chair Avraham Burg, seeking cancellation of an amendment to Article 68 (a) of the...

Today, Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel; Al Meezan Association for Human Rights; and in its own name,...

Today, Adalah submitted an important medical research report to the official Commission of Inquiry on the danger of using rubber bullets (rubber-coated steel bullets) and requested that it be...

On 31 May 2002, the Supreme Court ordered the State to respond to a motion for a temporary injunction and a petition filed by Adalah on 30 May 2002 seeking to urgently freeze the Israeli...

Yesterday, 29 May 2002, Adalah appeared before the Supreme Court to announce the decision to withdraw a petition filed two days earlier against the Knesset. On 27 May 2002, Adalah's General...

Yesterday, 28 May 2002, the Knesset House Committee voted 12 to 5 in favor of restricting MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi's freedom of movement for the remainder of his term as a Member of Knesset. The Knesset...

On 21 May 2002, the Supreme Court heard a petition submitted by seven human rights organizations, asking that the Court order the Israeli government and army to stop using Palestinian civilians as...