Iraq: Alarming rise in use of death penalty – UN report -- DisplayNews
Iraq: UN report documents the alarming rise in executions carried out since the restoration of the death penalty in 2005: http://sm.ohchr.org/1wjdLbB
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UN Human Rights Chief Zeid and UN Special Representative for Iraq
Nickolay Mladenov jointly call on the Government to impose a moratorium
on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards its abolition,
in line with UN General Assembly resolutions.
