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., 2024/09/18
E.g., 2024/09/18

British Occupation and 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