Tag: Universal jurisdiction

  • Action Alert: Tell your MP that war criminals should be prosecuted not welcomed!

    4 November 2010 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary William Hague reiterated the government’s commitment to urgently resolve the “unacceptable situation” with regard to universal jurisdiction during his visit to Israel. The coalition government want to change the current legislation to give the Director of Public Prosecutions power over issuing arrest warrants against…

  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah: No army, no prison and no wall can stop us

    Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah January 6, 2010 To all our friends, I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope. I know that Israel’s military campaign to imprison the leadership of the Palestinian popular…

  • Defense of universal jurisdiction speech presented to conference in Madrid

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 22 June 2009 Dear friends, comrades, partners in civil society, and national and international human rights organizations, thank you all for coming, and for joining us here today. Today, the Gaza Strip lies in ruins. Five months after Israel’s criminal offensive, which cost the lives of 1,414 Palestinians – 83%…

  • PCHR and Spanish civil society organize conferences in Madrid In defense of universal jurisdiction

    Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 21 June 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), in cooperation with Spanish civil society partners and national and international human rights organizations, are organizing two events in Madrid, Spain, on 22 and 24 June 2009. The events will take place in the Spanish Cultural Centre and the Spanish…

  • Open letter from Gaza to the government and people of Spain

    30 May 2009 We write to you as Palestinians from Gaza to express our dismay at the proposal of the Spanish parliament to restrict the universal jurisdiction of Spain, particularly with regard to breaches of international humanitarian law. The proposal called for the existing legislation to be modified so that cases may only be pursued…