Ref: 40/2014

On Monday, 10 November 2014, the Palestinian Center
for Human Rights (PCHR) organized a workshop for a group of young activists on
the death penalty and extra-judicial execution in the Palestinian Authority.
The workshop was held in in Gaza City in cooperation with All Youth 365 Group
and was attended by 24 persons, including 8 females. The participants discussed
opinions and perspectives related to the death penalty and the need to abolish
it. Mohammed Abu Hashem, a legal and human rights researcher at PCHR,
facilitated the workshop.

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.

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.