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Palestinian Anti-Corruption Court Secures Conviction but Raises Questions of Bias
(Washington Post) - Karin Brulliard - A two-year-old Palestinian court charged with combating corruption handed down its first major conviction this month, ruling that a man widely considered a pretty big fish - the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's former economic adviser - had embezzled millions of dollars. Some analysts praised the verdict as a positive step for a Palestinian system long plagued by graft. But as the case escalated this week into an ugly public spat between the convicted embezzler, Mohammed Rashid, and the dominant Fatah political party, it has also raised questions about whether the Palestinian Authority is using its nascent anti-corruption drive to suppress critics. (Washington Post)