Ref: 5/2012 On Thursday, 19 January 2012, the Training Unit of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), in cooperation with civil society organizations in Khan Yunis, concluded a training course in human rights and democracy. The 20-hour training course was held in PCHR’s office in Khan Yunis in the...
Ref: 8/2012 On Monday, 16 January 2012, a civil court in Gaza issued a death sentence in absentia against (D. Y. Q.), 27, from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, after convicting him for murdering his brother in 2005. The General Prosecutor charged (D. Y. Q.) with murder...
Ref: 8/2012 On Monday, 16 January 2012, a civil court in Gaza issued a death sentence in absentia against (D. Y. Q.), 27, from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, after convicting him for murdering his brother in 2005. The General Prosecutor charged (D. Y. Q.) with murder...
Ref: 4/2012 In the past two days, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) received two delegations from the Irish Representative Office and Norwegian Reprehensive Office to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in its head office in Gaza City. On Tuesday, 17 January 2012, PCHR received a delegation from the Norwegian Representative...
Factsheet The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) represents 1,046 individual victims of Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip. Criminal and civil complaints on behalf of each of these victims were submitted to the Israeli authorities; to-date substantive responses have...
“As I arrived there I found many people in the area, working on their lands. It was calm so I felt comfortable and stayed there. Suddenly one of the jeeps on the border stopped and bullet after bullet was fired.” Abdel Azim and Ma’zouza Abu Rujailah standing besides olive seedlings On...
Ref: 7/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the attack against Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a human rights defender and Director of Communication and International Relations Unit in Al Mezan Center for Human Rights by unknown persons last Friday evening in Gaza City. PCHR calls upon the...
“Madleen refuses to sleep by herself; she will only sleep in her parent’s room” says Nujoud, “she’s afraid to be by herself at all. The other day we were in the garden and I asked her to go to the bedroom to bring something. She refused to go...
Ref: 06/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the use of excessive force by security officers against a number of Palestinians while performing Shiite rituals on Saturday, 14 January 2012, in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. PCHR calls for opening serious investigation into...
Ref: 5/2012 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) welcomes the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) recent contact with the Swiss Government requesting the convening of a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention. The conference is intended to address the measures necessary to enforce the...
