205 Member’s luggage, home, place of residence, car, office, or any real estate or movable property belonging to the Member, throughout the period of immunity.” It is also contrary to Article (11) of the Palestinian Basic Law amended in 2003, which states that “Personal freedom is a natural right, shall be guaranteed and may not be violated. It is unlawful to arrest, search, imprison, restrict the freedom, or prevent the movement of any person, except by judicial order in accordance with the provisions of the law.” It is also contrary to Article (178) of the Jordanian Penal Code of 1960 and applied in the West Bank, which states that “Every employee who arrests or detains a person in cases stipulated by law shall be punished by imprisonment from three months to a year.” And Article (181) of the same body of law states that “every employee who enters in his capacity as an employee the residence of one of the people or extensions of his residence in the cases permitted by law, shall be punished by imprisonment from three months to three years and a fine of twenty dinars to one hundred dinars. If joined to investigate the place to do this work or any other arbitrary action, punishment shall be not less than six months. If the employee has committed the above‐mentioned act without taking into account assets imposed by law shall be punished by imprisonment from one month to one year and a fine of five dinars to twenty dinars.” On 29/09/2010, the Attorney General responded to ICHR’s communiqué.207 It included a letter from the Chief Prosecutor of Tulkarem, which stated that “the Chief Prosecutor of Tulkarem, in a follow‐up of the complaint, addressed the Chief of Police of Tulkarem on 26/09/2010, requested a statement on the fact. The Police Chief of Tulkarem told him that based on the minutes of inference and inquiry, Fahmi Zeidan has in his possession legally‐prohibited materials. Given the circumstances of urgency and necessity, and fear of being smuggled, they asked permission to inspect the house. A search warrant, signed by the Prosecutor of Tulkarem, was issued. The house was indeed searched at night without being recognized by the police only after being transferred with the materials (which 207 Attorney‐General's letter on 29/09/2010 to ICHR, no. (2745) and its attachments in response to the complaint of LC member Abdul Rahman Zeidan submitted by ICHR.

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