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Source: https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/palestinian-lawyers-protest-against-legislation-decree
Palestinian Lawyers Protest in Ramallah Against Legislation by Decree
(Al-Araby Al-Jadeed-UK) Qassam Muaddi - Hundreds of Palestinian lawyers marched in Ramallah on Tuesday to protest against the continuing rule by decree in the Palestinian Authority. "Our message to the president [Mahmoud Abbas] is that legislation by decree, which affects the rights and liberties of Palestinians, must stop," said Suheil Ashour, president of the Palestinian Bar Association. The Palestinian elected law-making body for the West Bank and Gaza, the Legislative Council, has been inactive since 2007 following the political division between Fatah and Hamas. Since then, the law-making process in the Palestinian Authority is by presidential decree.