The PA Defies High Court Orders

Ramallah- Another time the PA shows disrespect to the law and human rights, when it refused to justify the continuos detention of our colleague Ghassan Al-Addassi. Where his lawyer has appealed, at the beginning of this month, to the Palestinian high court. The high court ordered on 5/5/1998 the PA to give reasons and justify their continuos detention of Al-Addassi, and gave them a period of 8 days to correct the situation; that is either to release Al-Addassi or to follow correct legal procedures in detaining him. The PA neglected the order, and behaved as there is nothing.

The irresponsible behavior of the PA means one thing, that there is no evidence against our colleague (even fake evidence). Where the only reason for detaining him and hundreds of political Palestinian prisoners is to please the fanatic Israeli government.

We want to ask Arafat and his men, aren't they ashamed when they demand Israel to release all political prisoners and in the same time they send to PA jails hundreds of Palestinians, many of them were just released from Israeli jails? Or is it part of Oslo agreement, that Israel releases political prisoners and the PA jails them?

After 50 years of Al-Nakbah, the PA should feel with its people, and stand with the 7 million Palestinians against the Israeli aggression. It is so sad to know while the PA executes directly Israeli orders, it does not even hear the voice of Palestinian courts, the Palestinian Legislative Council, the families of political prisoners, and human rights organizations. May be they did not hear our voice well, so it might be our responsibility to shout loud "STOP VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS".

Saturday, 16 May 1998

The Islamic Bloc in BZU - Palestine