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UN call for moratorium on executions
Herald Sun ^
| 6 November 2006
Posted on 11/05/2006 4:37:08 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
UN human rights chief Louise Arbour today called for a moratorium on executions after former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court.
She also called for the rights of defendants to a fair appeal to be “fully respected”.
“A credible appeals process is an essential part of fair-trial guarantees,” she said in a statement.
“This is particularly important in this instance, in which the death penalty has been imposed.
“Those convicted today should have every opportunity to exhaust their appellate remedies in a fair way, and whatever the outcome of an appeal, I hope the government will observe a moratorium on executions.”
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; hanging; moratorium; noinjection; saddam; saddamverdict; un; unitednations
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Wouldn't we know the UN would come to the defense of a convicted genocidal mass-murderer?
To: Aussie Dasher
It's time for the US to get out of the UN and for the US to kick the UN out of the country. The UN is a joke. Send them back to the League of Nations building. Or maybe they could go to Venezuela.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:39:15 PM PST
by
MichiganConservative
(The US is so full of domestic enemies, maybe all we can do is slow the inevitable ascent of tyranny.)
To: Aussie Dasher
"called for a moratorium on executions "
So now the UN is the "supreme leader" and wants to overrule the courts of sovereign countries?
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:40:03 PM PST
by
FairOpinion
(Vote Republican. The life you save may be your own. This is not an exaggeration.)
To: Aussie Dasher
I guess they miss their oil-for-food kickbacks.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:40:43 PM PST
by
Vasilli22
(http://www.richardfest.blogspot.com/)
To: FairOpinion
That's always been the ultimate goal!
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:41:09 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:41:49 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
To: FairOpinion
Just waiting for 'Nicolae Carpathia' to enter the scene.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:42:44 PM PST
by
uptoolate
(Their 'innocent' civilian is their next suicide bomber)
To: Aussie Dasher
Now, 'European values' of opposing death-penalty is put against 'UN values' of no-intervening with individual country's law. We'll see if the Islamic countries will go along with any resolution banning death penalty.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:44:06 PM PST
by
paudio
(Universal Human Rights and Multiculturalism: Liberals want to have cake and eat it too!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Luckily the Shiites that are running Iraq don't give a darn what the UN thinks and pretty much hate the UN for propping up Saddam for so many years. I predict Saddam will be dead within 90 days...
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:44:11 PM PST
by
apillar
To: Aussie Dasher
What was the United Nations thinking? To state the obvious, this does not bolster their credibility.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:44:24 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(Nihilism is at the heart of Islamic culture)
To: Aussie Dasher
I suspect the thugs at the UN would have no objections if Saddam Hussein gave up the numbers to his secret bank accounts to them. If he dies, the payoffs stop.
To: Clintonfatigued
What credibility?
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:45:56 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: Aussie Dasher
To: Aussie Dasher
Should the UN also come out against the daily murderous gangwars going on in Baghdad? No, they worry about Sheikh Saddam.
To: Vasilli22
I guess they miss their oil-for-food kickbacks. That and the distinct probability that Saddam will start naming names on his way to the gallows.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:47:50 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Mohammed was the L. Ron Hubbard of his time.)
To: Aussie Dasher
I propose a moratorium on paying any future UN dues.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:48:20 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: MichiganConservative
Exactly what will they do to those who do not comply threaten them with mean and nasty resolutions and proclomations??
They ought to move them lock, stock and barrel to a Muslim country.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:50:50 PM PST
by
incredulous joe
("No,...no. I'm here to talk about you." -- Bob Corker)
To: Aussie Dasher
Surprise! Surprise! NOT! Always in the corner of evil incarnate!
Let's call for a moratorium on the UN! Shut up and do...nothing! It's what they're good at!
To: apillar
If it takes that long for them to storm the prison and kill Saddam and his party.
To: Aussie Dasher
Well....why am I not surprised at this article...blech!
I actually think that hanging is too good for him...
He wants to have a firing squad...and I think that is too good for him.
I think he should have a suicide belt strapped to him...and he has to wear it...until it goes off...BUT,, he won't know when it will...could be minutes, hours, days.....
And then.........BOOM!!!!
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:55:17 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
(EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)
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