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Jefferson23

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Fri May 9, 2014, 10:19 AM May 2014

Rights groups urge Palestine to join ICC

LONDON (AFP) -- Human rights groups including Amnesty International on Thursday urged Palestine to sign up to the International Criminal Court.

Seventeen local and international human rights organisations made the request in a joint letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, Amnesty said.

The London-based organisation said if Palestine "signed up to the Rome Statute of the ICC, the Court would have jurisdiction over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on Palestinian territories and by its nationals elsewhere."

The joint letter urged Abbas to "take the necessary steps for Palestine to become a party" to the ICC.

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