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The UN human rights chief condemned the bill as discriminatory, highlighting over 71,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 2023, with concerns over mandatory death sentences.
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UN Human Rights Chief Rips Israeli Legislation to Execute Palestinians
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights forcefully denounced proposed Israeli legislation that would effectively "impose mandatory death sentences exclusively on Palestinians under certain circumstances, both in the occupied Palestinian territory and in Israel."
UN Human Rights Commissioner Türk has called on Israel to drop a planned law to extend the death penalty.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Israel to halt its proposed law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinians.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Türk called on Israeli authorities to withdraw the new bill that would impose the death penalty on Palestinians.
Drop draft proposals on death penalty for Palestinians, UN rights chief urges Israel
The UN’s top human rights official on Friday called on Israeli authorities to abandon plans for new legislation that would impose mandatory death sentences exclusively on Palestinians, warning the proposals violate international law and fundamental human rights standards.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, a series of proposals submitted to the Israeli Knesset aimed at lowering the threshold for the application of the death penalty raises serious concerns about discrimination against Palestinians and violations of their rights to due process, as well as to […]
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