Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council on Friday called for Singapore to impose an immediate moratorium on capital punishment, denouncing the Government’s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related crimes.
The decision by Zambia to abolish the death penalty is “a historic milestone’, the UN team in the country said on Friday in a statement.
Marking the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty, two UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Monday issued a statement recalling that under international law, capital punishment is permitted only “in very limited circumstances”.
A Ugandan man who lived for more than 18 years on death row says it’s “not easy to forgive”, in his own words, “everybody who participated in my suffering.”
But that’s exactly what Edward Mpagi has been able to do, taking his call for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, all the way to UN Headquarters in New York.
He took part in a panel discussion on the theme of moving away from the death penalty, and was accompanied by Ronald Katongole, a young campaigner from his home village.
