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Jerusalem, November 11, 1999
Unbelievable
appointment of District Prosecutor
Yasser Arafat decided on
November 7, 1999, to appoint Mr. Abdel-Latif Abdel-Fattah as
a General Prosecutor in the Palestinian Attorney General
Office in the West Bank.
Working for the Palestinian
General Intelligence Service, Mr. Abdel-Fattah was last year
convicted by the Military Court in Jericho of mistreatment
and carelessness, which lead to the death of the citizen
Waleed al-Kawasmi in Jericho prison on August 9 1998. Mr.
Abdel-Fattah was sentenced to serve 7 years in prison for
his crime.
It was Arafat himself who
ordered the investigation committee who later brought Abdel-Fattah
for trial.
Now, one year later, Arafat
appointed him to a high rank position in the General
Prosecution System.
The Palestinian Human
Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG) consider this appointment as
seriously undermining the credibility of the judiciary and
the general procecution system. The torture leading to
Waleed al-Kawasmi’s death in prison last year was a gross
human rights violation conducted by Palestinian security
forces. The charges against Waleed al-Kawasmi was never made
public.
For
more information, contact the PHRMG office: Tel: 972 2
6262463, Fax: 972 2 6262378, E-mail:
admin@phrmg.org
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