Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·JANUARY 14, 2001

After putting 2 men before firing squads and condemning...

After putting 2 men before firing squads and condemning 2 more to death, Palestinian authorities said that more trials - and harsher punishment - are ahead for Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel

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After putting 2 men before firing squads and condemning 2 more to death, Palestinian authorities said that more trials - and harsher punishment - are ahead for Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel. Barak, in a statement, called the trials "field court-martials."
"It is regrettable that the Palestinian Authority, which aspires to be a recognized entity, has recourse to show trials which recall dark periods of history," the Israeli leader added.
Lawmaker Farez Kadura, head of the Palestinian Authority committee on human rights, hedged on the question of whether the trials were fair: "In different circumstances, in the future when we have a democratic country, they will receive all their legal rights in court, which will assure them a just trial," Kadura told Israel's Channel Two television. "But in today's situation, when the Israeli government sends these people to assassinate or to kill people without a trial as has happened many times recently ... they of course can expect nothing else."
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  • (Source: Associated Press, 14/01/2000)