Police arrest an activist during a protest against the privatization of natural gas in Tel Aviv, November 7, 2015.

ACRI Petitions Supreme Court against Imposing Criminal Liability on Protest Organizers

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the Supreme Court to order police to stop demanding that applicants who request licenses to conduct protests bear criminal responsibility for any violation by demonstrators. The petition was filed together with four activists who are involved in organizing protests against the gas privatization deal across Israel…

Ra'uf Hamdan, the father of Kheir Hamdan, murdered by the police in Kafr Kanna

Investigators Clear Cops in Fatal Shooting of Arab Man – Adalah: “Green Light” for Next Murder

The Police Investigations Unit (PID) on Tuesday, May 5, officially cleared officers of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Kheir Hamdan, a 22-year-old Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizen, last November in Kafr Kanna. Footage of the incident showed Hamdan approaching the police van and tapping on the window repeatedly with what the officers claimed appeared to be…