JAPAN APPRECIATES MONGOLIA'S EFFORT TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A coordinator of the Japan Amnesty International NGO (JAI) T.Hayashi has highlighted Mongolia's joning the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, "which aims to abolish the death penalty".
Mr. Hayashi said it in his report about capital punishment executions around the world in 2011 at a conference of the JAI on March 27. According to the report, the capital punishment was imposed upon 1,923 people last year in 63 countries, and 676 people were executed in 20 countries. In addition, 175 countries have abolished the capital punishment thanks to various movements against the death penalty.
The Ambassador of Mongolia to Japan S.Khurelbaatar also addressed the JAI conference. He said Mongolia is aiming to become one of the countries who got rid of the capital punishment, for example, the President Ts.Elbegdorj announced a moratorium on this kind of punishment at a parliamentary session meeting in 2010, then the State Great Khural ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2012.
The JAI executive director Mr. H.Wakabayashi has congratulated the Mongolian President on strugglibng for abolishing the capital punishment.
B.Khuder
Mr. Hayashi said it in his report about capital punishment executions around the world in 2011 at a conference of the JAI on March 27. According to the report, the capital punishment was imposed upon 1,923 people last year in 63 countries, and 676 people were executed in 20 countries. In addition, 175 countries have abolished the capital punishment thanks to various movements against the death penalty.
The Ambassador of Mongolia to Japan S.Khurelbaatar also addressed the JAI conference. He said Mongolia is aiming to become one of the countries who got rid of the capital punishment, for example, the President Ts.Elbegdorj announced a moratorium on this kind of punishment at a parliamentary session meeting in 2010, then the State Great Khural ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2012.
The JAI executive director Mr. H.Wakabayashi has congratulated the Mongolian President on strugglibng for abolishing the capital punishment.
B.Khuder
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