Ramallah-5 April 2011: The Magistrate’s Court in Hebron postponed the journalist Ala’ Al-Titi’s trial to 27 April 2011 to give the prosecution time to gather new evidences. Al-Titi has been going to the court since 4 November 2008.

The court of Appeals in Hebron had previously affirmed his innocence on charges of sedition and in relation to his work with Al-Aqsa TV, in a decision taken by the Magistrate's Court on 24 April 2009; the prosecution however repealed the decision.

Al-Titi lawyer Hamza Awad said: “The repeated postponement of Al-Titi’s trail is just for Procrastination, where the judge gave the prosecution a lot of times to show the evidence and to determine the list of witnesses". Awad added that this procrastination is part of the waste of citizen’s right that guaranteed in the Palestinian law.

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) renew its appeals to end the suffering of journalist Alaa Al-Titi, who is going to the court for more than 2 and a half years on the same charges that he took an innocence decision about them.

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