UN expresses concern over reinstatement of death penalty in Congo
On Thursday during a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said he was “concerned” by the decision of the authorities of that nation to reinstate the death penalty. teleSUR
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00:00 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Nations Humanitarian Rights Chief Volker Turk
00:07 said he was concerned by the decision of the authorities of that nation to reinstate the
00:12 death penalty.
00:13 In this sense, at the end of the four-day visit to the African nation, during which
00:18 he met with President Felix Shikisedi, the United Nations High Official referred that
00:24 the death penalty must be abolished worldwide.
00:28 In March, Justice Minister Rose Mutombo announced that her government reinstated the death penalty
00:33 against military personnel guilty of treason and those guilty of urban banditry causing
00:39 death.
00:40 Thus, the moratorium on the death penalty, decreed in 2003, was lifted, while since then
00:47 capital punishment pronounced, mainly in cases involving military personnel or members of
00:52 armed groups, had been systematically commuted to life imprisonment.