Hassan Jabareen, lawyer and the general director and founder of Adalah, with MK Barakeh in court, Tel-Aviv, March 23, 2014 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Barakeh on the verdict: “This was a political trial”

The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Sunday convicted Hadash chairman and leading Communist Party member, MK Muhammad Barakeh for attacking a right-wing demonstrator during a protest eight years ago. The lawmaker was acquitted of the more serious charge of striking a soldier from an undercover unit during another demonstration against the West Bank security barrier…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration against occupation in Tel-Aviv (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Court decision in MK Barakeh’s political trial on next Sunday

On Sunday 23 March 2014 at 10:30 am, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court will issue its decision in the political case against leading Communist Party of Israel member, MK Mohammed Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash). The indictment against MK Barakeh, filed in 2009, included four different charges, in…

Hadash demonstration in Tel-Aviv, December 2011. The banner said: "Democracy we'll defend it, so that it will defend all of us." (Photo: Lisa Goldman)

ACRI opposes yet another anti-NGO bill

On Sunday March 2, 2014, the Ministerial Committee for Legislative affairs reviewed a bill tabled by extreme-right MK Miri Regev  (Likud) – an amendment to the Non-Profit Organizations Law under which the state will be able to prevent an organization’s registration if any of its objectives contradict the definition of “Israel as a Jewish and…