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PALESTINE / ISRAEL
CASE No. PAL/02 - MARWAN BARGHOUTI

Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 181st session
(Geneva, 10 October 2007)


The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Marwan Barghouti, an incumbent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/181/11(a)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 180th session (May 2007),

Referring also to the expert report on Mr. Barghouti's trial by Mr. Simon Foreman (CL/177/11(a)-R.2),

Recalling that Mr. Barghouti was sentenced on 6 June 2004 by the Tel Aviv District Court, whose jurisdiction he did not recognize, to five life sentences and two 20-year prison terms, which he is currently serving in an Israeli prison,

  1. Reaffirms, in the light of the compelling legal arguments put forward in Mr. Foreman's report, on which the Israeli authorities have not provided observations, that Mr. Barghouti's trial did not meet the fair trial standards which Israel, as a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is bound to respect;

  2. Reaffirms further, in the light of the expert report, that Mr. Barghouti was transferred to Israel in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords; consequently once again urges the Israeli authorities to transfer Mr. Barghouti to the custody of the Palestinian authorities;

  3. Deplores the lack of cooperation from the Israeli parliamentary authorities in this important matter and their failure to respond to its repeated requests for the Committee to be permitted to pay a private visit to Mr. Barghouti;

  4. Requests the Secretary General to raise this matter not only with the Israeli parliamentary authorities but also with the competent governmental and administrative authorities;

  5. Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 118th Assembly of the IPU (Cape Town, April 2008).
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