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UN to discuss human rights abuse in Gambia

Xinhua, February 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council will discuss in March the reports of human right abuse in Gambia, a UN official told Xinhua Friday.

The UN envoys were in Banjul from Nov. 3 to 7 last year on a fact finding mission according to an agreement signed by UN and the Gambian government, but their work were later blocked by the Gambian authority.

In our preliminary findings, we have expressed concern about the legal framework and existing practices in connection to the imposition of the death penalty, which are not in conformity with international law, said Juan Ernesto Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

"The country's 1997 Constitution mandates the National Assembly to review the desirability of the death penalty ten years after its entry into force, with a view towards it possible total abolition. Such review should have taken place in 2007 and is now seven years overdue," the official said. Endi