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ZAMBIA SHOULD ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY

January 14, 2016: Florence Chibwesha, Director of the Human Rights Commission of Zambia told the Committee on Legal Affairs, Governance, Human Rights, Gender matters and Child Affairs that Zambia must abolish the death penalty as it was against the enhancement of human dignity and progressive development of human rights. Ms Chibwesha said Zambia should ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aimed at abolishing death penalty. “In any case, Zambia is already practicing this through commutation of sentences” Ms. Chibwesha said. She added that Zambia must enact a law criminalizing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments.
Ms Chibwesha also said that there was need to review the provisions of sections 123 and 33 of the criminal procedure code which made all offences punishable by death unbailable as they violated the constitutional protection of the presumption of innocent under article 18, and therefore, a violation of fundamental human rights. Ms Chibwesha said a human rights based approach should be used in addressing root causes of offences punishable by death rather than resorting to death penalty for offences which were mere manifestations of deep-rooted causes such as social, economic, political and cultural or any other challenges. The focus should be on giving real attention and adequate resources to addressing the root causes of atrocious crimes, particularly in today’s modern and globalised world. (Source: 15 January 2016, The Zambia Daily Nation)

INDIA: APEX COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF TWO DEATH ROW PRISONERS
IRAN: 4 JUVENILE OFFENDERS EXECUTED IN SANANDAJ PRISON
IRAN: FIVE PRISONERS HANGED IN KARAJ, YAZD
EGYPT: PARLIAMENT ENDORSES CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-TERRORISM LAW
AFGHANISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING 8 MEMBERS OF A FAMILY IN NANGARHAR
SOMALILAND: THREE CONVICTED OF MURDERS EXECUTED
IRAN: SIX PRISONERS HANGED IN ORUMIYEH
SAUDI ARABIA: YEMENI NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR MURDER
PAKISTAN: DEATH ROW PRISONER HANGED IN SIALKOT
ZAMBIA: OUTLAW DEATH PENALTY, URGES PRISON CHIEF
GAZA: FOUR GET DEATH PENALTY OVER SPYING FOR ISRAEL
U.S. SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN FLORIDA'S DEATH SENTENCING SCHEME
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI EXECUTED FOR MURDER
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO PRISONERS EXECUTED FOR MURDER
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR WOMAN, 3 OTHERS FOR MURDERING 6 OF FAMILY
PAKISTAN: TWO DEATH ROW CONVICTS HANGED
IRAN: INMATE EXECUTED ON 'ENMITY AGAINST GOD' CHARGE
IRAN: 1,084 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2015
VIETNAM: TWO PERSONS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
SOMALILAND: THE GOVERNMENT EXECUTES SIX CONVICTED FOR MURDER
IRAN: SEVEN PRISONERS HANGED
ZIMBABWE: 15 DEATH ROW INMATES HIRE BITI'S FOR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FIGHT
SAUDI ARABIA: ETHIOPIAN WOMAN EXECUTED FOR AXE MURDER
SYRIA: ISIS EXTREMIST REPORTEDLY KILLS HIS MOTHER IN PUBLIC EXECUTION
BANGLADESH: THREE KILLERS OF JASAD LEADER KAZI AREF HANGED
IRAN: YOUNG PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC IN EAST AZERBAIJAN
FLORIDA: KILLER PUT TO DEATH IN FIRST US EXECUTION OF YEAR
BANGLADESH: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR TOP ISLAMIST LEADER
IRAN: NINE PRISONERS HANGED IN PRISONS
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