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Deutsche Botschafterin fordert Ende der Todesstrafe in Vietnam

Hanoi (dpa) - Die deutsche und die britische Botschafterin in Vietnam haben die Regierung in Hanoi zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe im Land aufgefordert. «Im 21. Jahrhundert ist für die Todesstrafe kein Platz mehr», erklärte Botschafterin Jutta Frasch gemeinsam mit ihrer britischen Amtskollegin Lesley Craig am Montag in Hanoi.


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STANFORD LAW SCHOOL’S ALLEN WEINER

In a decision announced on November 28, 2013, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva ruled favorably on a petition filed by Allen Weiner, Director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School, that contests the illegal arrest, conviction and ongoing detention of sixteen Vietnamese social and political activists. 

UNWGAD held that the detention and subsequent criminal conviction of these activists violated international human rights obligations that are binding on Vietnam and called upon the Vietnamese government to “immediate[ly] release” the detainees.

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