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Article: Human Rights Watch Demands a Lifted Travel Ban on Human Rights Activist in Israel
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The Israeli authorities should immediately lift a travel ban on Shawan Jabarin, the general director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, a group of leading international human rights organizations said today. Jabarin was unable to attend the annual Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in Lisbon on April 19, 2007 because Israeli authorities would not allow him to leave the occupied West Bank. The international human rights organizations calling for the lifting of Jabarin's travel ban include the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of the FIDH and the ...