Security forces deploy outside the court for Palestinian security forces in Ramallah as fourteen members of the Palestinian security forces face a military trial after being formally accused over the killing of prominent activist Nizar Banat, whose death sparked protests and global condemnation. Banat -- a leading critic of the Palestinian Authority and its 86-year old president Mahmud Abbas -- died in June after security forces stormed his home in the flashpoint city of Hebron and dragged him away. A post-mortem found he had been beaten on the head, chest, neck, legs and hands, with less than an hour elapsing between his arrest and his death. IMAGES