Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: UK raises concerns over Israel's treatment of Palestinian children [View all]Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)snip* HRW spokeswoman Emma Daly responded to the Post on Wednesday and cited a HRW press release from 2009 in which the Supreme Court is mentioned. Daly wrote, We have repeatedly and publicly referred to the role of the Israeli High Court in Jabarins case. As we note in that release, the courts decision was based on secret evidence from the Israeli authorities that neither Jabarin nor his lawyers were allowed to see or contest.
Sari Bashi, director of Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, said, Approval of a travel ban based on secret evidence is far from proof of wrongdoing.
Security blocks can be imposed because someone attended a lecture, participated in a conversation about politics or had a family member who was injured or killed by the Israeli army and is therefore considered to have a motivation to harm Israel.
Sometimes security blocks are imposed to pressure people to collaborate with the Shin Bet. The evidence is often collected from informants seeking to please their handlers, and it cannot be refuted, because it is kept hidden from the person accused of wrongdoing. It is easy to make accusations while hiding behind secret evidence. It is far more difficult to engage in the twodecade long nonviolent struggle that Shawan Jabarin is leading to protect the human rights of those vulnerable to abuse. ( end)
The court did itself no compliment to ban him with the reliance on secret evidence...that is the
problem.
Collectively, the human rights groups, not just HRW, supported Jabarin.