Headline: "The [Palestinian] People's Party condemned the suppression of the demonstration in Ramallah and demanded an accounting of those responsible for it and an apology to the people" "The Palestinian People's Party (i.e., a member of the PLO) expressed its strong condemnation of the attack by..."

Headline: "Article 99 murders women twice" "The [PA] Ramallah court on Oct. 19 [2016] convicted a man from Tulkarem of rape, in contradiction of the directives of clause 296 of [Palestinian] Penal Law No. 16 of 1960, and sentenced him to manual labor for three years. However, in light of 'the..."

Headline: “Hizb ut-Tahrir: The PA is postponing the release of Al-Jabari despite the publication of the court’s decision” “Member of the information bureau of Hizb ut-Tahrir (i.e., the Party of Liberation, an international Salafist political organization) in Palestine Baher Saleh reported that the...”

Headline: “PNN report: [PA] Security Forces dispersed a protest vigil of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Al-Damiri says that they are creating internal conflicts, and the party answers” “The Palestinian [PA] Security Forces dispersed a demonstration of the Palestinian Hizb ut-Tahrir (i.e., the Party of Liberation,...”

Headline: "A [PA] presidential decision to forbid the travel of five members of the Palestinian Parliament" "Knowledgeable Palestinian sources revealed that there is a decision by the Palestinian [PA] presidency to ban five members of the PA Parliament (Legislative Council) from leaving the..."

Originally posted in English. Headline: "MADA demands release of Journalist Al-Sa’ee and to stop detaining and imprisoning journalists" "The Palestinian center for development and media freedoms MADA is extremely concerned of imprisoning and detaining journalists by the Palestinian security..."

Headline: “Gaza: A women’s rights center demands to cancel the death sentence that was imposed on Nahla Abu Anza” “The Center for Women’s Legal Research and Consulting [in Gaza] strongly condemned the death sentence that a court of first instance (i.e., a trial court where legal proceedings are...”

Headline: “Fatah in Europe condemned the PA Security [Forces’] attack against [PA] Parliament members who held a sit-down strike at the Red Cross building” “The Fatah Movement in Europe published a statement in which it condemned the violations against the [PA] Parliament members from Fatah, their...”

Headline: "Hassan Khreisheh to Wattan: The [PA] president does not have the right to remove the immunity of PA Parliament members" "Second Deputy Chairman of the PA Parliament (Legislative Council) Hassan Khreisheh emphasized that [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the right to remove the..."

"Palestinian [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas' legal advisor [Hassan Al-Ouri] said: 'The president has removed the parliamentary immunity of five members of the Palestinian PA Parliament (Legislative Council).' According to the Arabic Sky News [TV] channel, Al-Ouri said today (Tuesday) [Dec. 13, 2016]:..."

Headline: “Female workers who were swallowed up by the exploitation – 87,000 women do not receive minimum wage, and there are no complaints out of fear of ‘losing’ the position” “The time has come to go to work, and Hanan Yassin needs to go quickly to the private clinic of two doctors who treat...”

Headline: “PA Parliament member Al-Sheikh Ali: We will not recognize the boycott conference, we are making preparations for the real Fatah conference” “PA Parliament (Legislative Council) member for the Fatah Movement Na’ima Al-Sheikh Ali said today (Wednesday) [Nov. 30, 2016], in response to the...”

Academic lecturer on Islam and Mufti Sheikh Samih Hajjaj: “A man wanted to take revenge on [his] wife so he locked her in the bathroom. She is from a respectable family and he locked her up for 25 days. In the morning he would give her pita bread, a plate of red pepper, and a beating with a rubber...”

Q: "If elections are to be conducted in the Palestinian Territories at the present time, do you think that they will be fair?" Note: “Results of the Palestinian Public Opinion Poll no. 53 conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University during the period...”

Headline: “The crime of disgrace ” Op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for the official PA daily, about the assassination of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sept. 25, 2016, as Hattar was about to stand trial for sharing a cartoon depicting God being treated like a servant by a bearded...

Headline: “The [Palestinian Journalists’] syndicate condemned the attack of [PA] Security [Forces] against the journalists in Jenin; Al-Damiri: We will investigate every complaint that a citizen submits” “The [Palestinian] Journalists’ Syndicate condemned the fact that a number of journalists in...”

Headline: “The parties marginalize the role of women in political participation” “The millions of dollars that the women’s associations, centers for defending women’s rights, and party activists are transferring have not achieved advancement towards strengthening the role of women in political...”

Headline: “Palestine initiates: The president lays the cornerstone for the advancement of freedom of the press in the Arab world – Mahmoud Abbas decides that August 1 will be Freedom of Opinion and Speech Day in Palestine” “[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas signed a declaration yesterday [Aug. 2, 2016]...”

Taken from the English website of WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency. Headline: "Palestine Launches Campaign to Support Freedom of Press" "RAMALLAH, August 2, 2016 (WAFA) – In the presence of high ranking officials from international, regional and local journalist bodies, the state of..."

Headline: “Precedent: The Arab Organization for Human Rights submitted a complaint against the PA Security Forces in the International Criminal Court (ICC)” “The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain submitted a complaint to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) in the International Criminal...”

Headline: “Fatah: [Jihad] Al-Khazen’s participation in the attack on President [Mahmoud Abbas] is a blow to the struggle of our people and its revolution” “The Fatah Movement said that [the op-ed] by Jihad Al-Khazen, which appeared in the London-based paper Al-Hayat [on June 12, 2016] and wronged...”

Headline: “The opinion of a source from the [Persian] Gulf on [Barack] Obama and the Palestinian leadership” Op-ed by Jihad Al-Khazen in his regular column “Eyes and Ears” in the London-based Al-Hayat. “The success of the Saudi outlook on the future economy will benefit the entire region. [US...”

Headline: “The Bureau of Communication of the Security Forces: Abu Zaid’s arrest is connected to fanning the rift (i.e., between Fatah and Hamas) and illegally transferring money” “The Bureau of Communication of the Security Forces emphasized that the Security Forces’ steps and stance are based on...”

A week after this article was published, the PA daily published an article claiming that the journalist was arrested for illegal money transfers, not for journalistic reasons. Headline: “The [PA General] Intelligence [Service] in Nablus arrested Al-Aqsa journalist Tareq Abu Zaid” “The Palestinian...”

73.6% of Palestinians said the PA was not transparent, 77.1% said it was not accountable to the people, 68.8% said it was undemocratic.