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Palestinians urged to abolish death penalty
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA rights group urges Palestinian authorities to abolish the death penalty, after two new sentences were handed down this month in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights calls for “an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a form of punishment because it violates international human rights standards.”
Authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza sentenced a 24-year-old to death by hanging on charges of murder, and a court in Hebron in the West Bank handed a sentence to another man on charges of collaboration with Israel, it said.
Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel, murder and drug trafficking are all punishable by death.
— AFP
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