RESUMPTION OF DEATH PENALTY ‘MAJOR SETBACK’ FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIET NAM – UN

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RESUMPTION OF DEATH PENALTY 'MAJOR SETBACK' FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIET
NAM – UNNew York, Aug 9 2013 11:00AMThe United Nations human rights
office today said that the resumption of the death penalty in Viet Nam
represents a "major setback" in the country's human rights record.

A 27-year-old man was executed on 6 August in Hanoi by lethal
injection. The execution is the first in the last 18 months in the
country.

"We are dismayed by the resumption of the death penalty by Viet Nam,"
the spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR), Cécile Pouilly, told journalists in Geneva.

Ms. Pouilly added that the office is also "deeply concerned" for the
lives of some 116 death row prisoners in the country who have
exhausted their appeals are now facing imminent execution.

"We urge the Government not to carry out further executions and to
join the growing number of Member States that have established a
moratorium on the death penalty or abolished this practice
altogether," Ms. Pouilly said, noting that 19 States in the
Asia-Pacific region have stepped away from the practice.

"We also call upon the Government to declassify the data on the use of
the death penalty as a state secret, recalling the importance of
transparent and effective public debate on the subject ensuring that
the public has access to balanced and accurate information," she
added.

Speaking on the subject in June, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
expressed particular concern that the application of the death penalty
in countries where it is still practiced "is often cloaked in
secrecy," and that a lack of data on the number of executions or
individuals on death row impedes an informed national debate on the
issue.

He urged Member States to stop the use of "this inhumane practice,"
particularly in countries that have resumed executions after a
moratorium.

Since 2007, the UN General Assembly has adopted four resolutions
calling on States to establish a moratorium on the use of the death
penalty with a view to abolition. About 150 of the UN's 193 Member
States have either abolished the death penalty or no longer practice
it.

Last month, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay wrote to
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan advocating for the abolition of the death
penalty in Viet Nam. According to her spokesperson, Ms. Pillay noted
that Viet Nam still retains the death penalty for several offences
that do not meet the threshold of most serious crimes. Aug 9 2013
11:00AM
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