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Mazuz wants severer punishment for terror
Attorney general proposes longer prison sentences, confiscation of property in terror cases
Aviad Glickman
The outgoing attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, has recommended that severer punitive measures be taken against convicted terrorists and their accomplices.
Mazuz conveyed a list of recommendations to Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman, which include a life sentence without possibility of parole for committers of serious acts of terror and a 10 year increase in prison sentence, from 30 to 40, for less serious offenders.
Work on the bill began three years ago, led by Mazuz and a number of defense officials. The attorney general says it was inspired by the changing needs in the fight against terror, and aimed to gather the guidelines of this battle into a coherent legislation.
The initiators of the bill came to the conclusion that the punishment for terror was not severe enough to deter and eliminate nascent terrorists. The bill also takes aim at the financial and organizational infrastructure of terror groups.
Mazuz and his associates also propose that inadmissible and confidential evidence be made available during court proceedings leading to the confiscation of civilian property related to terror, in order to facilitate access to the property of proven terror organizations.
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will also be able to freeze the assets of such an organization if the bill passes, in order to prevent the impeding of confiscation of the assets after a court order is handed down.
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