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HANGING OF 42 PRISONERS IN IRAQ RAISES CONCERN OVER FLAWED DUE PROCESS – UN RIGHTS CHIEF

September 27, 2017:

The mass hanging of 42 prisoners on September 24 in a prison in southern Iraq raises massive concerns over the country's use of the death penalty, the UN human rights chief said.
“I am appalled to learn of the execution of 42 prisoners in a single day,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a press release from his Office (OHCHR), referring to the hanging at Al Hoot prison in the city of Nasiriyah.
“Under international law, the death penalty may only be imposed after a strict set of substantive and procedural requirements have been met,” he added.
Mr. Zeid said it was “extremely doubtful” that these strict due process and fair trial guarantees – including the men's rights to effective legal assistance and a full appeals process, and to seek pardon or commutation of their sentence – had been met in every one of these 42 individual cases.
Iraqi government officials have stated that the executed prisoners were Iraqis affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) or al-Qaeda, who had been charged under anti-terrorism laws with offences including kidnapping, killing members of the security forces, carrying out armed robberies, and detonating improvised explosive devices.
However, no information has been released about their names, places of residence, exact crimes, trials, date of sentencing, or the appeals processes which Iraqi officials say they have exhausted.
Iraqi officials have stated that around 1,200 of the estimated 6,000 prisoners held in Nasiriyah have been sentenced to death.
OHCHR has repeatedly warned that the Iraqi justice system as a whole is too flawed to allow for any executions, expressing concern over reports that Iraq may be planning to expedite the process of executing prisoners already sentenced to death while urging the Government to step back from its policy of accelerated or mass executions.
Mr. Zeid called on the Government to establish a special judicial oversight body to make recommendations on legal reforms that would ensure respect for due process and fair trial standards, as well as to monitor any future trials related to capital punishment.
He also urged the authorities to halt all imminent executions and to establish an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

(Sources: Un.org, 27/09/2017)

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NIGERIA: SENATE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPPERS
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SRI LANKA: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER VIDYA MURDER
VIETNAM: HEROIN TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
GAZA COURT SENTENCES THREE CONVICTS TO DEATH BY EXECUTION, RIGHTS CENTERS OBJECT
IRAN: EXECUTION OF A PRISONER IN URMIA
MAN EXECUTED IN WESTERN IRAN OVER MURDER CHARGES
NEW STUDIES ON US PRISONS
IRAN: 74-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOSTING 'MIXED AND HALF-NAKED PARTIES'
IRAN: ONE PRISONER HANGED IN URMIA CENTRAL PRISON
EGYPT: 4 SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER BURNING AGOUZA'S NIGHTCLUB
IRAQ CARRIES OUT DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST 42 TERRORISTS IN DHI QAR
SUDAN: STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMAN
MADAGASCAR RATIFIES ABOLITIONIST TREATY AND THE GAMBIA SIGNED IT
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IRAN: AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN WAS HANGED IN PUBLIC ON MURDER CHARGES
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EGYPT: 7 ‘IS MEMBERS’ SENTENCED TO DEATH
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