On 23 June 2020, Ahmad Erekat, a 26-year-old Palestinian, was shot by Israeli occupation forces after his car crashed into a booth at the ‘Container’ checkpoint between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Working in collabor..
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Extrajudicial Executions from the United States to Palestine
On June 23, an Israeli soldier shot dead Ahmad Erekat, my 27-year old cousin, at a military checkpoint. He was dr..
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Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Condemns Unfair Trial that Sentenced 528 to Death
[The following statement was issued by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights on 25 March 2014]
The Egyptian Organization Condemns the Execution of 528 in U..
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Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 4 March 2013.]
Look at Us With a Merciful Eye: Juvenile Offenders Awaiting Execution in Yemen
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Litigating the New Frontier in the War on Terror
In the landscape of the global “war on terror,” the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are veteran pioneers. CCR hacked into the “legal black hole” of Guant&a..
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Lawfare and Targeted Killing: Developments in the Israeli and US Contexts
Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and o..
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