The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2021 adopted a Recommendation (CM/Rec(2021)2) inviting member States to take measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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A person who suffers from mental illness was sentenced to death along with 18 other people by Myanmar’s military regime on 8 April 2021 after being accused of banditry and murder in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, in late March.
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The Taiwan High Court on 14 April 2021 upheld the death penalty handed down to Li Kuo-hui, an ethnic Chinese from Myanmar, for starting a fire in an apartment building in Zhonghe, New Taipei in November 2017 that resulted in the deaths of nine people.
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The Organizations are deeply concerned by the Italian Government’s recent pledge to provide counter-narcotics support to the Government of Iran given the high risk that this support will result in death sentences being handed down to alleged drug offenders.
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