Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

Thematic Chronology
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
1920 - 1945
16 events

Summarizes the orders, ordinances, regulations and measures adopted by the British authorities to put in place a criminal legal system that gives them broad powers to prevent Palestinian political mobilization and impose collective punishment.

Mandate military forces and police search Arabs for arms at Damascus Gate

9 September 1938
Source: 
Matson Photo Service, Library of Congress
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
E.g., 2024/11/06
E.g., 2024/11/06

Early Mandate

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

Late Mandate

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944

1945