Ref:
24/2015

On
Monday, 25 May 2015, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a
workshop on the death penalty and extra-judicial execution in the Palestinian
Authority in cooperation with Culture and Development Youth Society in Jabalia town
in the northern Gaza Strip. The workshop targeted a group of activists from the
aforementioned society and was attended by 17 women. The participants discussed
opinions and perspectives relating to the death penalty and the need to abolish
it.

The
workshop addressed a number of topics, the most prominent of which were: the
death penalty in domestic and international laws; guarantees of the application
of the death penalty under domestic and international standards; controversy
over the abolishment of the death penalty; and the legal and objective
justifications for PCHR’s rejection for the death penalty in Palestine.
Moreover, the workshop addressed the application of extra-judicial executions
for suspicions of collaboration with Israeli forces and how they pose threats
to the safety and security of the Palestinian society and the rule of law. Mohammed
Abu Hashem, a legal and human rights researcher at PCHR, facilitated the
workshop.

This
workshop is part of PCHR’s efforts to abolish the death penalty and end the
phenomenon of extra-judicial execution. PCHR usually cooperates with the grassroots associations for their important role in building the society’s culture,
through which PCHR seeks to increase awareness of and promote human rights.

It
should be noted that this workshop is part of a project implemented by PCHR in
cooperation with the Representative Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
to the Palestinian Authority.