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Palestinian court drops case against ex-Fatah strongman Dahlan

A Palestinian court Sunday dismissed a high-profile corruption case against exiled Gaza strongman Mohammad Dahlan, a defense lawyer told AFP.

 

Sevag Torossian said the Ramallah-based corruption court had ruled that the charges against Dahlan - once a leading figure in Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party - were "inadmissable," in a move the lawyer hailed as a "great victory."

 

The court ruled that a 2012 decision to lift Dahlan's parliamentary immunity had not been carried out in line with parliamentary law, legal documents showed.

 

The lifting of immunity had paved the way for another case in May 2014 in which he was convicted in absentia of defamation and sentenced to two years in prison.

 

His immunity was lifted by presidential decree in 2012, but by law, it can only be removed after a parliamentary vote.

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.19.15, 15:50