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    17-year-old euthanized in Belgium in 1st ever underage case

    Belgium – a country with an 800% spike in euthanasia over a period of 10 years – has just euthanized its first underage person. This follows a 2014 law allowing minors to be euthanized in particularly critical cases.

    Not much information was given to the press by physicians from the national committee for euthanasia. It was merely reported that the person was a minor, and that they were critically ill, according to Reuters.

    Wim Distelmans, who chairs Belgium’s Federal Control and Evaluation Committee on Euthanasia, wrote in an email that the procedure was performed last week by a local doctor.

    The overall practice was legalized in Belgium in 2002, and is still considered controversial in many places worldwide. There are safeguards in place to keep just anyone from taking their own life – such as the condition that the person must have extreme suffering to qualify for an injection, whether the suffering is mental or physical.

    The patient, however, does not have to be terminally ill.

    Belgium remains the only country that allows minors of any age to be euthanized. In the Netherlands, a minor has to be at least 12.

    The practice is also allowed in varying degrees in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and Colombia. In the US, euthanasia is legal in only five states.

    https://www.rt.com/news/359667-belgi...ia-minors-law/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    We have a new law in Canada for doctor assisted suicide but it doesn't go far enough. You can only have this done if you are terminal, not if you have a horrible disease that is painful and severely limits quality of life.
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    Hamas hangs three Gaza 'collaborators' with Israel

    GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza's Hamas rulers on Thursday hanged three men they convicted of collaborating with Israel, fulfilling vows of revenge for the mysterious killing of one of their commanders last month.

    The men, dressed in red prison jumpsuits, were shackled hand and foot and hooded as they were put to death at an exercise ground inside a police facility in Gaza City, an AFP correspondent reported.

    Senior Hamas officials and representatives of other Gaza-based groups observed the hangings.

    A few journalists also attended, though they were not allowed to take photographs.

    The men were aged 55, 42 and 31, the Hamas-run interior ministry said, without naming them.

    Human Rights Watch and other rights groups condemned the "barbaric" deaths.

    Hamas accuses the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and its Palestinian "collaborators" of killing senior military leader Mazen Faqha near his home in Gaza on March 24.

    Hamas's police chief Taysir al-Batsh said the three men were not linked to the killing but were accused of past acts of treason and collaborating.

    The deaths, he said, "represent a message to the (Israeli) enemy security sources and to the collaborators."

    The men were brought individually to the gallows and hanged at 15-minute intervals.

    'Barbaric practice'

    Each convict climbed a steel ladder accompanied by masked police, where a rope was fitted around their necks before the hangings.

    The square was blocked from three sides by a black curtain, with the chief military prosecutor reading out a list of charges before each man was put to death.

    Hamas has previously carried out death sentences for "collaborators," including in 2014, when six people were shot dead in public during that year's war between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel.

    The interior ministry said those executed Thursday had received due process.

    "The decision was upheld by each military appeals court and the high military court," said the interior ministry.

    Human Rights Watch condemned the executions.

    "The death penalty is a barbaric practice," it said.

    "The abhorrent executions by Hamas authorities of three men in Gaza deemed to be collaborators project weakness, not strength.

    "Hamas authorities will never achieve true security or stability through firing squads or by the gallows, but rather through respect for international norms and the rule of law."

    Hamdi Shaqura from the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights also condemned the punishment.

    He called the death penalty a "punishment that must be abolished, a punishment that doesn't represent a deterrent to crime."

    An Israeli government spokesman pointed to the recent election of hardliner Yahya Sinwar as Hamas's Gaza chief as reason for the killings, saying he had "executed many Palestinians before," referring to a Hamas intelligence unit he set up that flushed out "collaborators".

    Hamas has offered no evidence of its claims Israel killed Faqha.

    Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has implied he may have been killed in an internal Hamas feud, but the Jewish state remains a plausible suspect.

    Israel and Hamas have fought three wars in the Gaza Strip since the group wrested power from the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in bloody fighting a decade ago.

    'Radical measures'

    Israel has killed several Hamas leaders in the past and has accused Faqha of being behind several deadly bomb attacks against Israelis during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, of 2000 to 2005.

    Hamas says Faqha formed units of the Islamist group's military wing in the West Bank cities of Tubas, where he was born, and Jenin.

    The Islamist group has pledged "radical measures" against Palestinians who "collaborated" with Israel.

    Hamas has also offered "collaborators" with Israel a chance to turn themselves in and receive clemency.

    "The doors of repentance will be open for one week, from Tuesday, April 4 to Tuesday, April 11," the interior ministry said this week.

    Hamas also tightly restricted movement out of the enclave following the assassination.

    The restrictions had stopped male patients aged between 15 and 45 from using the territory's sole crossing for people to enter Israel to receive medical treatment, said Human Rights Watch.

    Security checks and searches also increased, including roadblocks.

    On Thursday the interior ministry announced the measures had been eased.

    The territory has been under an Israeli blockade for 10 years.

    https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...th-israel.ashx
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Armenian Prosecutor General Wants Death Penalty for State Treason

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    Armenian Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan wants the death penalty for those found guilty of state treason and has written to the country’s Constitutional Reforms Council to propose changes to the constitution.

    Armenia’s Constitution now bans the death penalty.

    Davtyan argues that revelations of treason during the 2020 Artsakh war call for the death penalty in certain cases.

    Davtyan says that Armenia is under no international obligation banning the death penalty.

    https://hetq.am/en/article/147804

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    Hamas executes five Palestinians in Gaza, including two for 'collaboration with Israel'

    The execution of two Palestinians for their 'collaborations with Israel' in Gaza by the ruling Hamas group is the first of its kind since 2017, while the other three were executed on criminal charges.

    The New Arab

    The Hamas Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that it executed five Palestinians, including two for "collaboration" with Israel.

    The executions for collaboration are the first carried out in the coastal Palestinian enclave for more than five years.

    "On Sunday morning, the death sentence was carried out against two condemned over collaboration with the occupation (Israel), and three others in criminal cases," Hamas said in a statement.

    It added that the defendants had previously been given "their full rights to defend themselves".

    Hamas's interior ministry provided the initials and years of birth of the five executed Palestinians, but did not give their full names.

    The two executed over "collaboration" with Israel were two men born in 1978 and 1968.

    The older of the two was a resident of Khan Yunis in the south of the blockaded Gaza Strip. He was convicted of supplying Israel in 1991 with "information on men of the resistance, their residence and the location of rocket launchpads", Hamas said.

    The second was condemned for supplying Israel in 2001 with intelligence "that led to the targeting and martyrdom of citizens" by Israeli forces, the statement added.

    The three others executed had been convicted of murder, the statement said.

    First executions in years

    Hamas has sentenced numerous people to death in recent years for "collaboration" with Israel, but the executions announced Sunday are the first carried out since May 2017.

    Three Palestinians - Ashraf Abu Leila, Hisham al-Aloul and Abdallah al-Nashar - were executed then over their involvement in assassinating a Hamas military leader.

    The men were publicly executed, with hundreds of people allowed to watch the sentences being carried out.

    They had been arrested just weeks earlier over the killing of Mazen Faqha, who was allegedly shot dead on behalf of Israel.

    While Hamas keeps the death penalty on the statute books, Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank have not carried out such a sentence in recent years.

    Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, seated in the West Bank city of Ramallah, has signed up to the United Nations' treaty opposing the death penalty.

    Abbas's Fatah movement and Hamas have been divided since 2007, following the outbreak of fighting between the Palestinian factions.

    The Palestinian Authority operates in the West Bank, which is home to nearly three million Palestinians and has been under occupation since Israel's invasion in 1967.

    Hamas, meanwhile, rules over 2.3 million Palestinians who have lived under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for 15 years.

    https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/h...-collaborators

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