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High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein |
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UN RIGHTS CHIEF URGES MALDIVES NOT TO RESUME EXECUTIONS
August 9, 2016: The United Nationsâ human rights chief is urging the Maldives to stick to a decades-long moratorium on imposing the death penalty, citing fears that three men are at âimminent riskâ of execution.
Zeid Raâad al-Hussein said in a statement issued in Geneva on August 9 that the Maldives long provided âimportant leadershipâ in efforts to end the use of the death penalty and it is âdeeply regrettable that a series of steps have been taken to resume executions in the country.â
In June, the Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty for a 22-year-old man convicted of killing a lawmaker in 2012. Shortly before that, the government had amended rules to allow execution by lethal injection or hanging, indicating that the countryâs unofficial six-decade moratorium on executions will soon end. (Sources: AP, 09/08/2016)
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