Traduction de «Meurtre non passible de la peine de mort » (Français → Anglais) :

Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

* Pursue the GAC conclusions of 22 January 2001 on the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, focus the human rights dialogue better, assess it on a continuous basis, and identify ways of making it more effective and results-oriented, notably on the key issues of concern identified in the GAC conclusions, including co-operation with human rights mechanisms; guarantees for the protection of those prosecuted for a crime for which the death penalty could be imposed and restriction of the cases in which the death penalty can be imposed; reform of administrative detention; respect for the fundamental rights of all prisoners; untrammelled exercis ...[+++]e of freedom of thought, conscience and religion, of the freedom of expression and of the freedom of assembly and of association.

I. whereas rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by the death penalty in Saudi Arabia; whereas half of all executions carried out in Saudi Arabia this year have been for drug offences, compared with only 4 % of the overall number in 2010; whereas the death penalty is applied by beheading and the bodies are sometimes then crucified; whereas, on 27 May 2014, Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was sentenced to death by beheading, followed by crucifixion, for participating in a terrorist organisation, despite the fact that his confession was obtained under torture while he was a minor;

4. Strongly condemns the use of the death penalty in Iran and calls on the Iranian authorities to institute a moratorium on executions pending the abolition of the death penalty, in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolutions 62/149 and 63/168; urges the Iranian Government to prohibit the execution of juveniles and to consider commuting all capital sentences for juveniles currently facing a death sentence; urges the Iranian Government to publicise statistics on the death penalty and facts on the administration of justice in death penalty cases;

6. Encourages the states that have not abolished the death penalty to respect safeguards protecting the rights of those facing the death penalty, as laid down in the United Nations Economic and Social Council Safeguards; calls on the Council and the Commission to encourage those remaining countries which have not signed and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to do so, and those Member States that have not signed Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights on the death penalty to do so;