Word: sourani
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...Sourani described the situation in the Palestinian Authority, which took power in May 1994 following the signing of the Oslo accords, as little better...
...result is "at the end of the day, what we are having is neither human rights, democracy, peace or security," Sourani told the sympathetic audience...
...Sourani, who has been imprisoned a half-dozen times by Israeli authorities and was detained by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 after criticizing military courts, is one of the most respected human rights advocates in the occupied territories and Israel...
...Sourani called routine Israeli confiscations of Palestinian land a "policy of almost ethnic cleansing through legal means...
...said the authority routinely tortures suspects. In an effort to control militant groups like Hamas, the Authority has set up courts which mete out arbitrary arrests and abuse in the name of controlling terrorism, Sourani said...