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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Palestinians urged to abolish death penalty
A 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
