173 2. The Sharia’ judiciary should refrain from considering cases such as ending a marriage contract for apostasy because they constitute a clear breach of the Palestinian Basic Law and international human rights standards. The Right to Peaceful Assembly 1. The security agencies in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip (General Intelligence, Preventive Security, Military Intelligence, Internal Security and Police agencies) should immediately stop detaining citizens for participating in peaceful assemblies. 2. The security agencies in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip (General Intelligence, Preventive Security, Military Intelligence, Internal Security and Police agencies) should allow the organization of peaceful assemblies. 3. Independent investigations into the incidents where participants in peaceful assemblies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were assaulted should be conducted. Human Rights Defenders 1. The competent authorities in the West Bank should open investigations in cases where human rights defenders were subjected to assaults by the security agencies, and the perpetrators of such assaults should be brought to justice. 2. The security agencies in the West Bank (General Intelligence, Preventive Security and Military Intelligence) should allow all human rights defenders and human rights organizations to visit the detainees held in the detention centers administered by them. 3. Both the Ministry of the Interior in the West Bank and the Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip should reopen civil society organizations and associations which they had shut down. 4. The security agencies (General Intelligence and Preventive Security) should return all the belongings confiscated from the defenders of human rights in contravention of law.