International Day of Solidarity with the people of Kashmir
Everyday should be an international day of solidarity with the people of Kashmir until their right to self determination is realised under international law. On behalf of [...]
The Law and the Occupation of Palestine | Radio 786
The Zionist regime has been perpetrating decades of human rights violations; abducting Palestinians, detaining them indefinitely, uprooting agricultural land, illegally evicting them from their homes, restricting their [...]
Day 1 of Israeli Occupation Case at ICJ | Radio 786
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has kicked off its hearings on the legal consequences arising from policies and practices of Zionist-Israel in Palestine, [...]
What the ICJ ruling means for Palestinians | Radio 786
The world is assessing the true weight of the International Court of Justice interim ruling in the case between South Africa and Israel over its genocidal acts [...]
ICJ first ruling on South Africa genocide case against Israel in Gaza
The International Court of Justice delivered its ruling on the emergency measures requested by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel over its war on the [...]
International Quds Day
International Human Rights Defender talks with PressTV about the significance of International Quds Day.
Israeli Regional Escalation
Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel (Johannesburg - South Africa) and Mohsin Naqvi (Houston Texas - United States) featured recently to discuss these important developments on Spotlight | Press [...]
Unceasing genocide in Gaza
An interview with Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel, (International Human Rights Lawyer), and Batool Subeiti, (Activist and Political Analyst), on PressTV regarding the unceasing genocide in Gaza.
Will the IPPSRA Bill tighten the legal noose on Israel and help Palestine?
An excellent piece published in Muslim Views, written by Sozarn Barday an attorney based in Cape Town with a particular interest in human rights in the Middle [...]
The SA Zionist Terrorism Corridor Probe – Press Conference | 23 March 2022 – Cape Town South Africa
Attorney Ziyaad Patel was honoured to have been part of one of the most important legal cases unveiled in South Africa. Indeed representing Safoudien Bester as the [...]
Tenth Annual Solidarity Conference for Palestinian Prisoners | TADAMON 17 April 2023
On the occasion of #PalestinianPrisonersDay and in solidarity with heroic prisoners. Attorney Ziyaad Patel was honoured to have participated in the International Foundation for Solidarity with Prisoners [...]
Normalisation of Israel by Arab States must end for Palestine to be free | Salaam Media Luqmaan Ravat 7 April 2023
http://https://salaamedia.com/2023/04/07/normalisation-of-israel-by-arab-states-must-end-for-palestine-to-be-free/
Has international lobbying & condemnation of Israeli attacks on Palestine People helped their cause and can more be done?
07 April 2023 | Podcast listen here Ashraf Garda speaks to International Human Rights Advocate - Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel
UPDATE Executive Summary of South Africa’s Implementation And Protection of Palestinian Solidarity Rights Bill
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF SOUTH AFRICA’S IMPLEMENTATION AND PROTECTION OF PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY RIGHTS (IPPSRA CITIZENS ADVOCACY BILL) Summary Update: April 2023 IPPSRA is an advocacy campaign in support [...]
South Africa’s Insurrection – 27 years post apartheid, Attorney Ziyaad Patel in conversation with Julie Alli | Salaam Media 20 July 2021
Salaam Media's Julie Alli discusses South Africa's insurrection in July 2021 with an analysis by Attorney Ziyaad Patel. Listen here
The Coronavirus Pandemic Spotlights Israel’s Genocide: Prison Studies Report – Can Lawfare Hold Israel Accountable?
The Coronavirus Pandemic Spotlights Israel's Genocide Prison Studies Report - Can Lawfare Hold Israel Accountable? By: Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel In March 2016, I addressed the 31st [...]
Commemoration of the Nakba on behalf of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return
Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel addresses the commemoration of the 73rd Anniversary of the Nakba day on behalf of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return. [...]
Can Lawfare hold Israel accountable?
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights Israel’s genocidal policies. Prison Studies Report: Can Lawfare hold Israel accountable? https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/the-pandemic-spotlights-israel-s-genocidal-policies
SA’S IPPSRA CITIZENS BILL
A solidarity Act with the oppressed people of Palestine that converts political and executive rheotric into a constructive legal framework. Read more: IPPSRA CITIZENS BILL UPDATED MAY [...]
Bill Seeks to Defend Palestinian Human Rights – Radio 786
Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel speaks to Gadija Davids on SA's #IPPSRABill in holding Israel accountable for war crimes, crimes against humanity & genocide. To understand the objectives [...]
New bill wants SA to halt trade with Israel
Israel’s export of weapons to the United States and South Africa – and a proposed law to stop this and other trades – was discussed at this [...]
Why George Floyd’s death must advocate global solidarity for human rights
Above Photo – An Israeli soldier presses his knee into the neck of Palestinian youth in the West bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) on May 11, [...]
George Floyd and human rights solidarity
The untimely death of George Floyd has sparked outrage, but anti-racism campaigns across the US and the world..
Commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of the IHH Flotilla Humanitarian Aid Attack
Palestine Solidarity Alliance and Freedom Flotilla Coalition Webinar: National and International actions against the illegal occupation - From the Gaza Freedom Flotilla to Annexation Read more [...]
International Quds Day: A declaration of support for the liberation of Palestine
PSA Ramadan Report, Inayet Wadee in conversation with Ziyaad Patel, 22 May 2020
Some reflections on the recent access-to-masjid case
This pandemic must pose an opportunity for serious introspection by all actors involved in taking the case to court, including religious legal fraternities. Last month a group [...]
Interview on Lawfare International human rights
It was an honour and privilege to have recently spoken to highly respected Lebanese journalist Zeinab AL Saffar on her show Menaldakhil via Skype. We discussed the [...]
US Foreign Policy poses the severest threat to the American people and world peace.
The United States president announced in the aftermath of a carefully planned and orchestrated drone strike which killed Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani. Fatalities included deputy commander [...]
Analysis of the property ownership rights in South Africa.
TheMaryamMkwandaShow 20 January 2020 Listen Now
The growing existential threat of muslim ethnic cleansing-a perspective on global islamophobia and the rising ultra right wing.
As the Muslim world deals with the horrific acts of terror perpetrated by Brenton Tarrant from Grafton, NSW, Australia, equally morally reprehensible was that it was livestreamed [...]
Tuti Tursilawati’s death calls for a critical review of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record.
Claimed as a close ally of the Trump administration, under Mohammed bin Salman the kingdom flagrantly metes out injustice and tyranny. At the end of October 2018, [...]
Piercing The Antisemitism Veil By The Supreme Court Of Appeal.
How has the recent SCA judgment impacted Palestinian solidarity? Whilst the legal fraternity studies its ramifications, rights groups have welcomed the long overdue ground – breaking judgment [...]
ITV Exclusive SA for Rohingya for advocacy campaign.
Protect the Rohingya - Delivery of legal memorandum.
Palestine solidarity march in Sandton on international legal status of Jerusalem.
Newsclip links on Tuesday's protest action outside the United States Consulate in Sandton, South Africa.
The Legalities of the United States declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and its impact.
The Legalities of the United States declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and its impact Host: Ashraf Essop Guest: Adv Ziyaad Patel Guest 2: [...]
Free the prisoners of Palestine: Message from the Khiam Detention Centre, Southern Lebanon
The Palestine Solidarity Alliance condemns the ill devised Middle Eastern plan coined as the ‘Deal of the Century’. This deal has been contrived by the US with [...]
Legal Mechanisms to Prosecute Israeli Officials.
South African lawyer and rights activist Ziyaad Patel said that Turkey has a very close relationship with Jerusalem but it cannot protect 10 of its citizens who [...]
Protect the Rohingya SA advocacy campaign
الحملة العالمية للعودة إلى فلسطين من معتقل الخيام، رسائل من أحرار العالم إلى أسرى فلسطين.. "السلام عليكم إخواني وأخواتي، أنا أخوكم زياد باتيل، محامي [...]
Attorney Ziyaad Patel Interview with Zeinub Al Safar Beirut.
Attorney Ziyaad Patel Interview with Zeinub Al Safar Beirut, Lebanon on the political state of South Africa and Human Rights in Palestine.
Address in Southern Lebanon at the Khiam Detention Centre on behalf of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return.
My address in Southern Lebanon at the Khiam Detention Centre on behalf of the Global Campaign for the Right of Return. May the land [...]
24 Hour Hunger Strike in solidarity with #PalestinePoliticalPrisoners
24 Hour Hunger Stike in solidarity with #PalestinePoliticalPrisoners
PSA/BDS-SA press conference
PSAYL (Palestine Solidarity Alliance Youth League) Press Conference on report from Delegation which visited Occupied Palestine.
Attorney Ziyaad Patel features on protection of South African citizen arrested in Israel.
A live show featuring various legal experts and educating the public on current and relevant issues from a legal perspective.
Press conference on the return of Leigh Anne Naidoo from Palestine
SA Ambassador to Israel, Sisa Ngombane, tries to provide his own personal opinion of what happened during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2014. He [...]
Attorney Ziyaad Patel at the 52nd Meeting of the UN Human Rights Council.
Attorney Ziyaad Patel, speaking on behalf of the Khiam Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture at the Presentation of the reports of the Secretary-General [...]
Attorney Ziyaad Patel speaking on the IDF Arrests.
Attorney Ziyaad Patel speaking at the #IDFArrests Press Conference in Joburg based on the Gadija Davids case.
Addressing Turkish and international media outside the Seventh High Criminal Court of Istanbul
Some days which will be etched in my memory forever #Mavimarmara#Freedomflotilla#Endthesiege - addressing Turkish and international media in Istanbul on the Gadija Davids case which had [...]
Representation of Gadija Davids’ rights – IHH Flotilla aid attack.
SABC 3 Day two of the COSATU Congress, SACP leader Blade Nzimande says the union federation should guard against what he called corporate capture. [...]
International law on closure of the Rafa border and the Mavi Marmara case
Nadeem Mahomed chats to Ziyaad Patel, an international Human Rights Law expert about Rafa and Mavi Marmara.
Press Conference in Istanbul March 2014 addressing Turkish media on the Freedom Flotilla Attack
IHH Press Conference in Istanbul March 2014, Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel addressing the Turkish and international media on the Freedom Flotilla Attack which occurred in May 2010.
Ogaden refugees’ legal claims may put SA on the spot.
South Africa’s Ogaden refugees have requested the police, the prosecuting authority and the International Criminal Court to investigate damning allegations of human rights abuses against the Ethiopian [...]
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