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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

New Death Sentence in Gaza: PCHR Demands Immediate End for Death Sentences in Gaza

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On Sunday, 18 September 2022, the Higher Crime Committee in the Gaza Strip issued a death sentence against (S.B.) a resident of Deir Al-Balah after he was convicted of murder of (A.B.) in a family dispute that took place on 26 August 2021.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reaffirms its condemnation of all murder crimes and its total support with the families of victims and their right to remedy. In the meantime, PCHR reiterates that death penalty is not the only mean to achieve justice or deter such crimes and highlights the fact that Palestine is a State Party to the 1989 Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.

Accordingly, the death sentences issued in 2022 in Gaza rise to 18, including 3 issued by military courts and 5 sentences issued in affirmation of former death sentences by Appeal Court. The total number of death sentences issued in the Palestinian territory since 1994 reached 271; 30 in the West Bank and 241 in the Gaza Strip. Among those issued in the Gaza Strip, 181 sentences were issued after the 2007 Palestinian political division.

Since the establishment of the PA in 1994, 46 death sentences were executed: 44 in the Gaza Strip, and two in the West Bank. Of those executed in the Gaza Strip, 33 were conducted without the ratification of the Palestinian President in violation of Palestinian law. In this context, PCHR stresses the need to refrain from ratifying death sentences in a prelude to abolishing this punishment from the Palestinian legislations.

PCHR stresses that the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is biding to Palestine, including the Gaza Strip. Therefore, PCHR calls on the authorities in the Gaza Strip not to use the death penalty and replace it with a life sentence with hard labor.

PCHR also calls upon the Palestinian President to issue a law by decree to suspend the use of legal articles related to the death penalty in the Palestinian that conflict with Palestine’s obligations under the ICCPR Protocol aiming at abolishing the death penalty.

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Source: pchrgaza.org, Staff, September 20, 2022





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