21 February 2012 :
The Gaza Court of Cassation rejected an appeal submitted by Mohammed Ahmed Baraka, 49, from the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah, who was sentenced by Deir al-Balah Court of First Instance on 30 May 2010 to death by hanging.Baraka was convicted of murder in accordance with the Penal Code of 1936.
This is the third death sentence to be upheld in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2012.
The total number of death sentences handed down since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 has reached 124; 25 sentences issued in the West Bank, and 99 in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza City-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).
(Sources: PCHR, 19/02/2012)
