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On 26 March 2023, the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy informed the Palestinian human rights group Lawyers for Justice of their final decision to not renew the registration of their organisation as a civil company. According to the Ministry, the decision is based on a request from the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) to freeze the registration of the organisation.
Lawyers for Justice is an independent Palestinian group of lawyers based in Ramallah, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The organisation works to support Palestinian human rights defenders and political prisoners held by the Palestinian Authorities through the provision of free legal aid. It also monitors and documents human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authorities in the OPT. Additionally, Lawyers for Justice launches campaigns, represents many local human rights organisations and has partnered with multiple national and international organisations to publish reports on the situation of human rights in the OPT. Mohannad Karajah is a Palestinian human rights defender and attorney. He is the head of Lawyers for Justice group, a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation that works to support Palestinian activists and political prisoners held by the Palestinian Authority through legal aid. Lawyers for justice also works on monitoring and documenting human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories which the Palestinians are subjected to by the Palestinian Authority. Mohannad Karajah has been subjected to different forms of targeted harassment by the authorities, including judicial harassment and defamation campaigns.
On 26 March 2023, the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy informed the Palestinian human rights group Lawyers for Justice of the final decision to not renew the registration. While the Ministry refused to provide an official letter informing of the decision, it told the organisation that the decision is based on a request from the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) to freeze the registration of the organisation.
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