04/10/2007
The World Coalition against the Death Penalty (WCADP), an international NGO composed of 60 member organisations, announced on Tuesday (October 2nd) that it will begin an international campaign for a universal moratorium on the death penalty from Morocco. The campaign will kick off in Rabat on October 10th coinciding with the observation of the World Day against the Death Penalty. WCADP plans to seek support for the initiative in Puerto Rico, Kinshasa, Lisbon and New York and will later submit a proposal to the 62nd UN General Assembly. President of the Moroccan Prison Observatory, Abderrahim Jamai, said the death penalty is still in force in Morocco, although no capital punishments have been carried out since 1993. There are currently 129 people on death row in Morocco, including four women.