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1 December 2010
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At approximately 1:30pm on Tuesday 30 November 2010, a force of the police, the Department of Societies Security and the Ministry of Interior closed the main office of Sharek Youth Forum office in Gaza city.
The director of the Department of Societies security, which is part of the Police Investigations Unit, informed the persons who were present at Sharek office of the order closing Sharek.
The order was issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Gaza.
The Public Prosecutor Office’s decision No.
153/2010 regarding temporary closing the Sharek Youth Forum office stipulates that '[A]fter examination of the 2002 Basic Law and its amendments, the Judiciary Law No.
1 of 2001, the Penal Code No.
74 of 1936, and Associations Law No.
1 of 2000, we have decided the following:
1.
To temporarily close the Sharek Youth Forum offices in the Gaza Governorate until the investigations that have been opened in relation to the lawsuit No 36/2010 at the Department of Societies Security at the Police Investigations Unit are finished;
2.
This decision shall come into effect on the date of its issuing and the concerned authorities shall comply with it.
(Informal translation by Al Mezan)
In the evening hours on the same day, the Sharek Youth Forum’s office in North Gaza district was closed.
In the morning hours on Wednesday 1 December 2010, the Sharek Youth Forum’s offices in Khan Younis and Rafah were also closed.
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