Eight other countries, including the US, Britain, and Japan, have offered asylum. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 280 to 119 at its conference in San Antonio. Palestinian Authority - Palestinian Authority Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein said that those responsible for torturing Yosef Baba to death will be brought to justice. Baba was in good health when he was arrested on January 3 and died February 1 in Rafidiye Hospital. Khader Shkeirat, a lawyer with the Palestinian Center for the Protection of Human Rights wants a new autopsy with a family doctor present and the Ramallah-based human rights group Al Haq has demanded an impartial investigation into Baba's death.
Most deputies favor retaining the death penalty.
More than 150 people were executed in 1996. The four cases are the disappearance of a man jailed in Ertak in 1992, Hasan Kaya, a doctor who was murdered after he disappeared in 1993, journalist Kemal Kilic who was murdered in February 1993, and the destruction of a house in the Hasro region in 1993. Metin Goktepe, a journalist for Evrensel, was battered to death, according to the group. Reporters sans Frontieres called for the Turkish government to take action to eliminate torture and bring the police officers responsible to justice. On February 6, the trial of the 48 police officer accused of torturing Goktepe to death in January 1996 will resume.