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Taiwan visit tarnished by six executions
By Patrick Kamenka, on 25 April 2013
The meeting of the World Coalition Steering Committee on 12 and 13 April 2013 in Taipei, attended by twenty people, was tarnished the same week by the execution of six prisoners sentenced to death, even though high-level assurances had been given by the State with regard to reducing such barbarous acts.
2013
Death Row Conditions
Public Opinion
Taiwan
Taiwan
Article(s)
Taiwan executions spark outrage
By Thomas Hubert, on 19 April 2013
The authorities of Taiwan have executed six prisoners, days after President Ma met World Coalition representatives and promised to “reduce the use” of the death penalty.
2013
Taiwan
Taiwan
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Up-to-date country-by-country death penalty information
By World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, on 18 April 2013
The World Coalition is improving access to legal and statistical information on countries that retain the death penalty.
2013
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Only one in 10 countries carried out executions in 2012
By Tiziana Trotta, on 10 April 2013
At least 682 people were executed last year aside from China, according to Amnesty International.
2013
Afghanistan
Bahrain
Barbados
Belarus
Burkina Faso
China
Death Row Conditions
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Egypt
Gambia
Ghana
Guyana
India
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Malawi
Moratorium
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Viet Nam
Yemen
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“Iran kills for possession of less than 50g of drugs”
By Thomas Hubert, on 9 April 2013
Annual reports published by two World Coalition member organizations of Iranian exiles expose the disproportionate use of the death penalty in Iran, mostly against drug users and traffickers.
2013
Drug Offenses
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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A universal tool with regional equivalents
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 2 April 2013
The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is the only universal international treaty that prohibits executions and provides essential mechanisms to entrench the abolition of the death penalty in the world. As of the 15th January 2017, 84 States out of the 169 State parties to the ICCPR […]
2013
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Human Rights Council tackles death penalty
By Aurélie Plaçais, on 29 March 2013
The UN body in charge of defending and promoting human rights has devoted a large part of its 22nd session to discussing capital punishment and its abolition, and vowed to continue at its next meetings.
2013
Algeria
Belgium
Benin
Costa Rica
Egypt
France
Moldova
Mongolia
Rwanda
Switzerland
United States
Article(s)
Organisation of American States considers moratorium
By Tiziana Trotta, on 15 March 2013
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights warns that litigation is insufficient to combat the death penalty.
2013
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Moratorium
Panama
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Article(s)
Moroccan parliamentary network a new step towards abolition
By Delphine Judith, on 15 March 2013
Around 180 MPs from all political hues signed the founding charter of their network against the death penalty, which promises sustained legislative action in favour of abolition.
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment
Moratorium
Morocco
Article(s)
World Coalition members hail abolition in Maryland
By Thomas Hubert, on 15 March 2013
The House of Delegates has passed a bill replacing the death penalty with life in prison without parole. The governor of the US state has been supporting the bill and promised to sign it into law.
Indonesia
United States
