Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Follow up Research on PA Death Sentences

As a follow up to the posting of PA Death Sentences Symbolize Return to Arafat by Daniel Tauber, first published in The American Thinker, on February 6, 2009, here is a list of links to documents, press releases, and news articles for anyone who wants to do further research on the use of death sentences by Israel's "partner for peace," the Palestinian Authority.
Information & Documents from Human Rights Groups
Letter from Nachi Eyal, Director of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel to Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak on PA Death Sentence in Hebron (Jan. 26, 2009).
Statistics on the Death Penalty in the Palestinian Authority (B’tselem, Nov. 30, 2008) Providing a timeline of the PA’s use of the death penalty from 1995 through Nov. 30, 2008.
Death Penalty under the Palestinian National Authority (Position Paper, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Sept. 14, 2006).
Death Penalty in the Palestinian Authority (Background information from B’tselem)
Military Court in Hebron Sentences a Palestinian to Death; PCHR Calls upon Palestinian President Not to Ratify the Sentence and Demands the Abolishment of Death Penalty from Palestinian Law (Palestinian Center for Human Rights Press Release, Jan. 26, 2009).
Palestinian Authority: Death Sentences Surge in West Bank, Gaza, 11 Sentenced to Death in December 2008 (Human Rights Watch Press Release, Dec. 15, 2008) (also available at UN Council on Human Rights).
Document - Palestinian Authority: Death penalty / Fear of imminent execution: Tha’er Mahmoud Husni Rmailat (m) (Press Release, Amnesty International, April 16, 2008).
Palestinian Authority: Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza (Amnesty International Australia, Aug. 26, 2005).
News Stories
Hamas executes suspected Fatah traitors in Gaza (San Fransico Chronicle, Jan. 22, 2009).
Hamas asserts control in Gaza, seeks "collaborators" (Reuters, Jan. 21, 2009.
PA court sentences two to death for 'collaboration' (Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2008).
Hamas condemns collaborator to death (Jerusalem Post, July 20, 2008)

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