Lawyers for Justice
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.
Human rights defenders in the OPT are subjected to acts of harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement, stigmatisation, abductions, long periods of arbitrary detention usually under administrative detention orders, illegal searches of their homes and offices and killings. Many of the violations are state-sanctioned, or if not sanctioned at the highest levels of the Israeli political and military establishment, then condoned by the ongoing policy of impunity which permeates the military and judicial system in relation to the OPT. In some instances Israeli settlers have also been the perpetrators of violence against human rights defenders.
