Investigation by Linda Maher
Two years have passed since Marwa’s life turned upside down because she blew the whistle. In February 2021, she was fired from her job in the Supreme Constitutional Court despite a protection order she had obtained in January 2020.
She says, “The protection order ruined my professional and personal reputation; I was dismissed from my job, and I am still jobless. The implementation of the order transformed me from a person who spoke out against corruption to a suspect who has a security file!”
On October 7, 2019, the Palestinian Authority ratified the regulation on the protection of whistleblowers, witnesses, informants and experts in corruption cases and their relatives and persons related to them. This regulation is based on the provisions of the amended Basic Law of 2003 and its amendments and the Anti-Corruption Law No. (1) of 2005 and its amendments.
On Thursday, December 26, 2019, Marwa Farah reported a suspected instance of corruption at the Supreme Constitutional Court to the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission. She requested professional and personal protection as she was afraid of being transferred from her workplace. She also wanted to make sure that no one would tamper with the papers and files that confirm the validity of her complaint. Marwa was the Court’s Secretary-General office director, and this office usually contains a large part of the archived material she used in her...
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