Detainees Denied Justice / / edited by Gerald Simpson.

This book was originally researched by the author for the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. The aim was to analyse the Palestinian High Court's judgments ordering the Palestinian Authority to release Palestinian political prisoners whose penal procedural rights - together with the High...

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Superior document:Nijhoff Law Specials ; 48
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Nijhoff Law Specials ; 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface. Words on the judiciary and political prisoners. 1. The historical and political background. 2. The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and the aims and structure of the research. 3. Palestinian Political Detainees held in Palestinian Prisons: the Political and Legal Context. 4. The High Court of Justice and its evolving approach to Palestinian Detainees. 5. Training of lawyers and judges. 6. Further issues relating to the Annexes, to observations concerning access to laws and judgments and to the issue of cooperation between Palestinian human rights NGOs. 7. Recommendations. 8. Table I: High Court Cases on the detention of political prisoners. 9. Tables II and III: lawyers/court's use of applicable law. Annexes I-XIV.