ISRAEL: PCHR AND AL-DAMEER CONDEMN GAZA POLICE BAN ON ANNUAL BADA'EL CENTRE CONFERENCE.(Conference news)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database,  May, 2008  

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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights condemn the ban of the Palestinian Bada'el Media Research and Studies Centre annual conference by the police and the dismissed government in Gaza. PCHR and Al-Dameer view the ban, apparently issued on the grounds Bada'el not having a conference licence, to be politically motivated and an attack on the right to peaceful assembly that is guaranteed by the Palestinian Basic Law.

Annual conferences do not require any prior permission, only a notice to the police as stipulated by the law. At 9:30 on ...

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