Sawsan Zaher
Role at the time: Palestinian human rights lawyer
Condemned
Statement summary
Sawsan Zaher argued that Abu Shehadeh's case lacked the sustained evidence required to disqualify a candidate for supporting armed struggle.
“This is not present in Sami’s case.”
Open the original interview (opens in a new tab)Sawsan Zaher's interview on Abu Shehadeh's exclusionZaher's explanation of the evidentiary threshold in the opening section; her remarks in the withdrawal-dilemma section
Reporting with directly attributed interview comments by Zaher on the legal threshold and Balad's response.
Why we used this label
Relative to excluding Abu Shehadeh, Zaher challenges the evidentiary basis for the ban and urges a legal challenge to it.