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UN rights panel urges Japan to scrap death penalty

Sat, 2008-11-01 04:09 — Robyn

GENEVA : The UN Human Rights Committee on Friday called on Japan to abolish the death penalty, just days after the country executed two people taking the annual level of deaths to a 30-year high.

Japan "should favourably consider abolishing the death penalty and inform the public, as necessary, about the desirability of abolition," the committee said in a report.

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