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Today we dedicate “Life and People” to discussing the debate on the death penalty in the Arab world.
In Egypt a few days ago the government executed 15 detainees in one day. In Tunisia, the statements of President Qais Saïd caused great controversy when he declared on the murder of a girl that “whoever kills an unjust person will be punished with death”. A few days earlier, protests erupted in Morocco demanding the execution of a The crime of rape and murder of a child, and with every crime shaking public opinion in countries of the Arab world, the controversy is renews again on the death penalty, between those who demand the application of the penalty, and those who insist on the need to freeze it and abolish it completely.
For many decades, the relationship of Arab countries to the death penalty has fluctuated; There are countries that have frozen the application of the death penalty, countries that have resumed applying it after its freezing, and others in the list of countries most applying the death penalty, such as the Kingdom from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt, countries that face much criticism from human rights institutions and organizations that refer to unfair trials and gross violations of the law and standards. International.
To discuss the subject, Tariq Hamdan welcomed many voices from different Arab countries: Taha Hajji, lawyer and activist (Saudi Arabia), Mahmoud Jaber, director of the Adalah Center for Human Rights (Egypt), Shukri Latif, head of the Tunisian Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (Tunisia), Dr. Hamdi Murad, President of the Jordanian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (Jordan) Khaled Al-Fatawi, Member of the Bar (Morocco) Rizkar Akrawi, journalist and member of the Center for the Right to Life to Abolish the Death Penalty (Iraq) Dr. Essam Abdeen is a human rights activist of Al-Haq (Palestine), the writer and blogger Sanaa El-Aji (Morocco).
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