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Bookmark or Share- Saudi Arabia: UN experts voice alarm at executions of foreign nationals“Saudi Arabia seems to have lifted a previously announced unofficial moratorium, in 2021, on the use of death penalty for drug-related offences in the country, and executions of foreign nationals appear to be increasingly taking place without prior notification to death row inmates, their families, or their legal representatives,” said the ...
- Death penalty | OHCHRThe use of the death penalty is not consistent with the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. There is growing consensus for universal abolition of the death penalty. Some 170 States have abolished or introduced a moratorium on the death penalty either in law or in practice.
- BANGLADESH: Imposition of the death penalty and its impactThe death-row prisoners are isolated in such a manner that constraints are imposed on meeting friends or loved ones and even other prisoners inside the same jail. The condemned cells, where death-row prisoners are incarcerated, are designed to divest the accused from sunshine, fresh air and socialisation with other prisoners.
- Death penalty does not lead to justice | OHCHRThe death penalty is contrary to human dignity, is incompatible with the right to life, and does not lead to justice. Thus is the sentiment of UN Human Rights and human rights defenders across the globe, who further state there is little to no evidence that it deters crime and advocate for its universal abolition.
- "Hidden" victims: the children of parents on death rowThe plight of children who have parents on death row or whose parents have been executed is also addressed in the latest report from the UN Secretary General on the question of the death penalty. There is an urgent need, the report says, “to examine the effects of the capital punishment system in its entirety, including the social, economic ...
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