during a ceremony at the Palace State House in Freetown in Sierra Leone, the seat of the Presidency of the Republic, a delegation of Hands Off Cain and the Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), composed of the Secretary of HOC, Sergio D'Elia, the co-vice President of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Senator Marco Perduca, and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Treasurer of HOC, presented the Award "Abolitionist of the Year 2012" to President Ernest Bai Koroma, because a year ago he emptied death row, commuted all death sentences, and has engaged in international fora to abolish the death penalty.
Read everythingToday begins a four days mission of Hands Off Cain and the Radical Party in Sierra Leone. The mission is aimed to obtain a legal moratorium or the abolition of the death penalty in the country, and the support of the African country to the Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations for the universal moratorium on executions.
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