UN calls on Iraq to stop executions
UN calls on Iraq to stop executions
10/11/2013 10:05
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} renewed United Nations Mission in Iraq {UNAMI}, call on the Iraqi government to stop the executions.
She said in a statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it on Friday expressed concern over “the executions in Iraq and reiterated its call for the Federal Government to halt all executions, according to the decisions of the General Assembly of the United Nations {62/149 in 2007 and 63/168 in 2009 and 65/205 2010}, consider the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition final of the death penalty. ” The Ministry of Justice has announced the implementation during the last week of death sentences b {42} convicts, including a woman one, all of them convicted of terrorist offenses in accordance with Article 4 of terrorism, after the acquisition of judicial rulings of peremptory degree, and the endorsement of the Presidency of the Republic. ended
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