PRESS RELEASE RELEASED @ 1:50 GMT 14 April 1998

Lawyers of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights are Denied Access to Visit Their Clients Dr. Abdel Aziz Al – Rantisi and Dr. Ibrahim Al – Maqadma

For the second consecutive day, Palestinian Police denied access to Raji Sourani and Iyad Alami, lawyers of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, to visit their clients Dr. Abdel Aziz Al – Rantisi and Dr. Ibrahim Al – Maqadma at the Police Headquarters in Gaza, despite of the special permission issued by the Palestinian Attorney General to visit them.

While PCHR expresses its deep concern over the unjustifiable denial to visit Dr. Al – Rantisi and Dr. Al Maqadma, it will continue its efforts to ensure that his lawyers visit their client. Until now neither of them has been brought before a judge, nor their file been brought to the Attorney General’s Office, according to Palestinian law.

Therefor, PCHR demands the immediate release of Dr. Al – Rantisi and Dr. Al – Maqadma for the illegal proceedures of their detention in accordance with Palestinian laws.