Israel’s decision to deport French-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer Salah Hammouri to France against his will may constitute a war crime under the Geneva Convention - UN experts
Israel announced earlier in the week that it had stripped Salah Hammouri of his Jerusalem residency and ordered his deportation to France, alleging the jailed lawyer is an activist in a"banned militant group".
“Such unilateral, arbitrary measures taken by Israeli authorities in retaliation against Mr Hammouri as a human rights defender violate every principle and the very spirit of international law,” The French government has repeatedly urged the Israeli authorities to release Hammouri and allow him to live with his family in Jerusalem.The deportation of protected persons from an occupied territory is prohibited under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, said experts.
He works with the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association — an internationally respected human rights organistion — and the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture grantee.
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