Daily Star - Workshop tackles media role in death penalty issue, October 6, 2011

BEIRUT: A two-day workshop on the role of media in fighting death penalty was launched Wednesday by Human rights organizations Penal Reform International and Alef. The workshop aims at informing journalists of their role in the fight towards abolishing death penalty in the country, and providing them with the tools to do so, explained Ziad Traboulsi, project officer at Alef. Wednesday’s session included a general presentation of death penalty practices and regulations across the world and of the most common pro and con arguments. Thursday’s session will focus on Lebanon, and on giving journalists better knowledge of the death penalty by presenting the law regulating it, its implementation and loopholes, Traboulsi said.