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| Iraq rejects call to abolish death penalty | |
| 2010-02-19 | |
| Iraq has rejected calls to abolish or suspend capital punishment made during a review by the U.N.'s top human rights body. Some 20 countries had urged Iraq to end the death penalty that has been used against high-profile members of the former regime of Saddam Hussein and in the country's crackdown against insurgent groups. They'll end it, just not yet ...
The country told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday that it also wouldn't commit to investigating abuse against gays or decriminalize homosexuality. Neither would it raise the age of penal responsibility to 18 years. It is currently 9 in most of Iraq and 11 in Kurdistan. | |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #1 the UN didn't want too rid Iraq of Saddam but now they are ready too bully them into making sovereign decisions about the death penalty. Why won't they go tell China too stop the death penalty there instead and see what the response is? |
| Posted by: chris 2010-02-19 16:31 |