Last month, ten Palestinian human rights lawyers in Ramallah participated in a Skype webinar hosted by ISLP. They discussed relying on press freedom case law from the European Court of Human Rights in their domestic litigation defending bloggers and journalists. Dick Winfield, chair of our Media Law Working Group, led the discussions, using the ISLP amicus curiae brief which had recently produced the acquittals of six Palestinians on trial for publishing criticism of public officials.
Two Arabic-speaking lawyers from the Washington-based American Bar Association Center for Human Rights handled the translation, making it a split-screen New York-Washington-Ramallah training session.