Ghassan Banat cannot put his guard down. Intimidation, threats and various forms of pressure have been used against them to dissuade them from pursuing the case against 14 PA officers accused of ...

Fourteen members of the Palestinian security forces will face a military trial after being formally accused on Monday over the killing of prominent activist Nizar Banat, whose death sparked protests ...

Killing of the strident Fatah critic has underlined the PA’s complicity with Israel and how far Mahmoud Abbas will go to crush dissent Nizar Banat knew he was going to die. As he grew bolder calling ...

Twenty-four years ago, while in charge of a small television operation at Al Quds University, my team and I decided to broadcast live sessions of the Palestinian Legislative Council dealing with ...

Nizar Banat was no stranger to the rough and tumble of West Bank politics during his life, which he lost in a savage beating last summer at the age of 42. In his final months, the civil rights ...

The death in custody of an activist after his arrest by Palestinian security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has exposed deep discontent among Palestinians towards their leaders. Amid ...

Banat, a leading critic of the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas, died in June 2021 after being dragged from his home in the West Bank by PA security forces. A post-mortem found he had been ...

The Palestinian Authority justice minister and head of the investigation committee into the death of activist and dissident Nizar Banat says Banat was subjected to physical violence and his death was ...