Summary
West Bank lawyer, keeper of the founders’ 1977-80 correspondence with the International Commission of Jurists, who left LSM when the original group dissolved and later headed Al-Haq’s board (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.14, p.56, p.63).
Details
- Copies of the founders’ correspondence with the ICJ in Geneva came from Taha (PDF p.14-15).
- With Niall MacDermot he signed the ICJ-LSM agreement during MacDermot’s January 1980 visit (PDF p.56).
- His early spring 1980 letter to MacDermot reported introducing LSM to the mayors of Nablus and Hebron and the local questions raised by the selective Israeli reporting of MacDermot’s UN speech and the military censor’s refusal of its Arabic translation (PDF p.56).
- He was one of those who left when the striking lawyers withdrew: “There were lots of rumours here, lots of us withdrew, it was very difficult”; he left to practise law in Nablus, returning to al-Haq’s board of directors in the 1997 internal crisis, subsequently heading the board (PDF p.63).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq, Niall MacDermot, International Commission of Jurists