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 delivered by Justice Mabuza in Bloemfontein on 4 December 2018. A decade long battle ensued between the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on behalf of the South [...]

Protect the Rohingya - Delivery of legal memorandum.

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 Host: Ashraf Essop Guest: Adv Ziyaad Patel Guest 2: Ibrahim Vawda

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 apartheid Israel and we categorically state does not include the will, support and participation of the Palestinian people. The entire plan is fraudulent and outrightly rejected by all [...]

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 were killed in the Marmara ship.Patel's statements came on Monday, in the Lebanese capital Beirut, in the second day of the Fourth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine, [...]

‎الحملة العالمية للعودة إلى فلسطين‎ من معتقل الخيام، رسائل من أحرار العالم إلى أسرى فلسطين.. "السلام عليكم إخواني وأخواتي، أنا أخوكم زياد باتيل، محامي حقوق إنسان دولي من جنوب أفريقيا، ومن هنا أريد أن أعبر عن تضامني معكم بصراعكم في #إضراب_الكرامة. أنا أقف هنا في معتقل الخيام السابق بجنوب لبنان أمام زنازين [...]

Attorney Ziyaad Patel Interview with Zeinub Al Safar Beirut, Lebanon on the political state of South Africa and Human Rights in Palestine.