Ref: 51/2014

On Wednesday, 17
December 2014, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a
workshop, in cooperation with the Earth & Human Center for Researches and
Studies (EHCRS), on the death penalty in the Palestinian Authority. The
workshop was attended by 28 persons, including 8 females. The participants
discussed opinions and perspectives related 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 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 effort to abolish the death penalty, as PCHR targets youth
groups to encourage the youth contribution to the promotion of human rights and
creation of a new generation of human rights defenders.

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.