Group of Moroccan NGOs calls for abolishing capital punishment

The Moroccan prisons observatory (OMP) and a group of human rights-advocacy groups called the Moroccan state to abolish capital punishment, in keeping with international human rights covenants ratified by Morocco.

The NGO's that held on Friday a conference on capital punishment in Morocco as the world marks the world day for the universal abolishment of capital punishment called for granting those on the death row a grace and commute their sentence into a limited prison term.

An appeal was launched for Morocco to sign the second protocol on capital punishment of the international charter of civic and political rights. Moroccan human rights-advocacy groups were also urged to use all means to promote the Moroccan society's awareness on the human rights breach that results directly from the capital punishment.

Several Moroccan, Maghreban and foreign jurists and human rights advocates analyzed during the conference the problem of capital punishment.