A rights group on Tuesday urged 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 Centre for Human Rights called 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 a**ther man on charges of collaboration with Israel, it said. Hamas has since 2007 controlled the Gaza Strip and president Mahmud Abbas's Palestinian Authority administers the West Bank.
01-30-2015, 03:12 PM
Palestinians urged to abolish death penalty
A rights group on Tuesday urged 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 Centre for Human Rights called 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 a**ther man on charges of collaboration with Israel, it said. Hamas has since 2007 controlled the Gaza Strip and president Mahmud Abbas's Palestinian Authority administers the West Bank.
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