Dura’s Magistrate Court issued release orders on 30 May 2017, 13 June 2017, and 20 June 2017. After each order was issued, the General Intelligence Service continued detaining Nammourah allegedly based on new charges. After the third order was issued, the General Intelligence Service transferred Nammourah to its detention center in Jericho. He was then brought before Jericho’s Magistrate Court based on new charges, which then issued another release order on 3 August 2017.

Nammourah remains in detention until today.

In response to the case, on 9 August 2017 Al-Haq:

1. Sent a letter to the head of the PA's General Intelligence Service (GIS), Major General Majid Faraj, which demanded that the GIS respect and implement the courts' orders, and underscored that the ongoing arbitrary detention of Nammourah is in violation of the Palestinian Basic Law and relevant legislation;

2. Submitted a complaint to the Public Prosecutor, Ahmad Barrak, calling for legal procedures to be taken for the failure of the GIS to implement the courts’ orders, in violation of the Palestinian Basic Law and the Penal Code;

3. Sent a notice to the chairman of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission, Rafiq al-Natsheh, on the GIS’s refusal to implement judicial decisions, as it represents a corruption offence under Anti-Corruption Law (2005), and falls under the competence of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission.

The ongoing detention of Nammourah constitutes an arbitrary detention in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, acceded to by the State of Palestine. It is also in violation of the Palestinian Basic Law and other domestic laws.

Al-Haq is deeply concerned over the implications that the GIS’s failure to implement judicial decisions will have on society at-large, as well as on the efficacy of the judicial authority. The GIS’s continued arbitrary detention of Nammourah comes within a broader deterioration of the human rights and rule of law situation under the Palestinian Authority.