Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
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| Born |  Petach Tikvah, Israel |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Human Rights Advocate |
| Nationality | Israel |
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is the founder and director of Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center.
Darshan-Leitner works with a staff of activist Israeli attorneys and with numerous other law offices which serve as co-counsel on cases being litigated in courtrooms around the world.[1].
Following the model of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization dedicated to bankrupting the KKK and other neo-Nazi groups in the US, Darshan-Leitner set up Shurat HaDin with the stated goal of "economically destroying [2] the hate groups in the Middle East."
Through Shurat Hadin - Israel Law Center, Darshan-Leitner and her associates represent hundreds of terror victims in lawsuits [3] and legal actions against HAMAS, the Palestinian Authority, Iran, Syria[4], Islamic Jihad and numerous financial institutions [4]. The cases are litigated in the Israeli, American, Canadian and European courts.
Darshan-Leitner has been involved in a wide-range of legal actions in Israel[5] and abroad on behalf of other Jewish rights cases[6].
Attorney Darshan-Leitner is a mother of six, including a set of triplets and a graduate of the Bar-Ilan University Law Faculty and holds an MBA from Manchester University. She regularly appears in the media including Israeli talk show programs, Voice of Israel radio, CNN, the BBC, European television, the Jerusalem Report and many American and Canadian publications.
On May 1, 2008, Darshan-Leitner along with former Soviet Prisoner of Zion, Ida Nudel launched a public campaign to save the life of a Palestinian police officer accused of having assisted the Israeli intelligence services in hunting down fugitive terrorists. The policeman, Imad Sa'ad Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many has been sentenced to death by a Palestinian military tribunal in Hebron. Sa'ad, it is alleged, provided the Israel Defense Forces with the whereabouts of four suspected bomb makers whom the Palestinian Authority was unwilling to hand over to the Israelis.
Darshan-Leitner accuses the Palestinians of having engaged in a sham trial that did not permit the defendant, a father of four to be represented by counsel nor call witnesses in his defense. There are no appeals from Palestinian military tribunal even in capital cases. Darshan-Leitner and Nudel have written to President Bush, the European Union and the Vatican.
In the past the pair working together have succeeded in saving the lives of other, similarly accused Palestinian prisoners on death row Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many.
On May 13, 2008, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner was co-council in a filing in Manhattan Federal Court against Swiss mega bank UBS GA[1] which is accused of financing terror.
[edit] References
- ^ News, Fox. "Swiss mega bank UBS GA Accused of Financing Terror", FoxNews, May 13, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
