Jerusalemite MPs table urgent request to suspend their banishment - IPU to ask Israel to reverse decision on deporting Jerusalemite MPs

Jerusalemite MPs table urgent request to suspend their banishment

[ 16/06/2010 - 04:57 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Three Jerusalemite deputies affiliated with the change and reform bloc along with a former minister tabled an urgent request with the Israeli higher court asking for suspending their banishment order.

Deputies Mohammed Abu Tir, Ahmed Attoun, and Mohammed Tawtah along with former minister Khaled Abu Arafa said that they would continue to raise their case in cooperation with human rights groups and local and international institutions until the decision to exile them after rescinding their Jerusalemite ID is reversed.

The request was tabled by two lawyers in cooperation with Adala center and the citizens rights society.

Adala center for human rights said in a press release that if the higher court endorsed the banishment then it would facilitate revoking the residence of other Palestinians in Jerusalem based on their political positions or activity, which would violate the international law that bans the occupier from asking allegiance from the occupied people.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces encircled the Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem after its inhabitants hit the streets to protest the Israeli demolition of their property.

IPU to ask Israel to reverse decision on deporting Jerusalemite MPs


[ 16/06/2010 - 09:50 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Anders Johnsson, the secretary general of the inter-parliamentary union, has affirmed that the union would contact the Israeli government in a bid to revoke its decision to deport the Jerusalemite MPs from occupied Jerusalem.

Johnsson, speaking with MP Mushir Al-Masri the head of the international campaign to release detained MPs in Israeli jails over the phone, said that the IPU would maintain its efforts in this issue.

The campaign said in a press release that Masri asked the IPU to shoulder its responsibility towards the issue of those parliamentarians and to seriously act to halt the Israeli violation against them despite holding parliamentary immunity.

Masri hailed the IPU resolutions condemning the detention of those lawmakers, and asked the union to persist in its efforts to foil the deportation scheme, which, Masri said, was more serious than the detention.

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