The ACIJLP organizes the 6th regional Workshop in Cairo on "The Role of Judges, Public Prosecutors and Lawyers on Reducing the Application of the Death Penalty in the Arab States"

Cairo, 25^th June 2012

Press Release

The ACIJLP organizes the 6^th regional Workshop in Cairo on "The Role of Judges, Public Prosecutors and Lawyers on Reducing the Application of the Death Penalty in the Arab States"

                                                                                 

The Arab Center for the Independence of Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP organized the 6^th regional workshop on "The Role of Judges, Public Prosecutors and Lawyers on Reducing the Application of the Death Penalty in the Arab States". The workshop will continue throughout the period 26^th, 27^th, 28^th, June 2012 in Cairo.

This is the 6^th regional workshop which comes within the framework of the ACIJLP’s activities on the project “Reducing the application of the Death Penalty in the Arab States” which will continue throughout 2013, with financial support from the European Union, and includes a number of conferences, workshops, seminars, relevant research papers and training courses relevant to the reduction and abolition of the Death Penalty in the national Arab legislations.

Many judges, lawyers, law professors and activists in the field of human rights from different Arab countries (United Arab Emirates - Qatar - Sultanate of Oman - Kuwait - Iraq - Lebanon - Syria - Sudan - Egypt - Tunisia) participate in the workshop.

The workshop aimed to activate the role of the legal professions such as the judges, law professors and lawyers on reducing the application of the death penalty in the Arab States, in addition to finding alternatives penalties to the death penalty, commitment to standards and controls that must be adhered to when applying the death penalty, the observance of internationally recognized safeguards on the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty.

The Workshop addressed international conventions and commitments to protect the right to life and the stance of these countries towards the ratification and accession to covenants and conventions against the death penalty. The workshop will also  the stance of Islamic law on reducing the application of the death penalty, proposals for gradual abolition of the death penalty and alternative penalties to the death penalty in the Arab states.