Raji Sourani

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Raji Sourani is widely considered the Gaza Strip's foremost human rights lawyer. He is the 1991 recipient of the 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, was an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience in 1985 and 1988, member of International Commission of Jurists EXCO and IDAL EXCO, and Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights. He is the founder and director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. [1] Sourani was active in the cases of Palestinians representing deportation, and in monitoring the conditions of Israeli prisons and detentions. He remains an unreserved critic of human rights violations occurring on both sides of the conflict.