On Tuesday, the Ramallah Magistrate Court adjourned the case of referring the advisor to the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Integrity and Accountability (AMAN) for anti-corruption affairs, Azmi Al-Shuaibi, and the Executive Director of the Coalition, Issam Haj Hussein, to the court, on the grounds of a lawsuit filed by the Presidential Court against them. According to AMAN's annual report on "bleaching settlement dates".

The Public Prosecution Office referred the case to the Magistrate's Court.

At the request of the Defense Committee from the Magistrate Court, the case was postponed until 7-11-2023 to enable the Defense Committee to review the case file, photograph and study the investigation file, and present its defenses at the beginning of the next session.

This coincided with the organization of activists and human rights activists, a stand in front of the Courts Complex in Ramallah, to protest the transfer of Al-Shuaibi and Hussein to trial.

Participants called for holding corruption accountable and stopping the prosecution of human rights activists and activists.

The participants called for an end to intimidation methods, and the freedom of opinion and expression and the application of laws, stressing the independence of the judiciary.

Yesterday, the Public Prosecution summoned Al-Shuaibi and Haj Hussein, and took their statements regarding what was mentioned in the report, especially the issue of “whitening settlement dates,” which took a different turn in 2022, and attempts to treat it outside the normal course of the investigation.

The coalition denounced the summoning of the two men to the Public Prosecution office against the backdrop of its release of the results of the fifteenth report it issued on May 17, entitled: The Reality of Integrity and Anti-Corruption in Palestine for the year 2022 under the slogan: (Occupation, division, and political corruption are a closed circle that feeds on each other).

And he warned that "he is being prosecuted by a lawsuit filed against him by the Presidential Office on charges of defamation and slandering high officials on top of her work, and the report was published on the website."