The judicial system in the Palestinian Authority leaves criminal suspects languishing in jails for an average of 14 years before courts rule on charges against them, according to a new European Union (EU) study. Some suspects literally spent a life term in prison without ever going to trial.
Ninety percent of suspected criminals are still waiting for trial dates despite last year's international pledges of billions of dollars in aid, much of which was supposed to go towards reforming the judicial and police system.
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