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Raji Sourani
Raji Sourani (, born c. 1954) is a human rights lawyer in the Gaza Strip. He was a recipient of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1991, given each year to an individual whose courageous activism is at the heart of the human rights movement and in the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy's vision and legacy. He was an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience in 1985 and 1988, member of International Commission of Jurists EXCO and IDAL EXCO, and Vice President of the International Federation of Human
Human Rights and the 2002 Bruno Kreisky Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Area of Human Rights. The group has repeatedly called for a ban on capital punishment in the Palestinian territories, which is supported by a majority of Palestinians. The group has also released reports relating to violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel. Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, was denied a permit to exit the Gaza Strip to attend a human rights conference in September 2008.
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