GENEVA: The United Nations (UN) human rights chief on Monday condemned the execution of 4 prisoners, together with a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s occasion and a outstanding activist, as “merciless and regressive”.
“I’m dismayed that regardless of appeals from internationally, the navy carried out these executions with no regard for human rights,” UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet mentioned in a press release.
“This merciless and regressive step is an extension of the navy’s ongoing repressive marketing campaign in opposition to its personal folks”.
The 4 have been executed for main “brutal and inhumane terror acts”, the International New Mild of Myanmar newspaper mentioned, with out saying when or how the lads have been killed.
The executions marked the nation’s first use of capital punishment in many years and sparked fears that extra demise sentences will likely be carried out.
The junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to demise as a part of its crackdown on dissent after seizing energy final 12 months.
Bachelet strongly condemned the truth that Myanmar had gone forward with the executions regardless of repeated calls from the UN and the broader worldwide group to chorus from doing so.
The executions, she mentioned, “are merciless violations of the rights to life, liberty and safety of an individual, and truthful trial ensures”.
She known as for the “speedy launch” of all political prisoners and urged Myanmar to “reinstate its de-facto moratorium on the usage of the demise penalty, as a step in direction of eventual abolition”.
In keeping with the UN, 117 folks, together with two kids, have been sentenced to demise for the reason that February 2021 coup. Of these, 41 have been sentenced in absentia.
Over 11,500 folks stay in detention for opposing the coup, Monday’s UN assertion mentioned.
“Most concerningly, over 30 per cent of over 2,100 folks killed since February 2021 have died in navy custody — most on account of ill-treatment,” Bachelet mentioned.
“I’m dismayed that regardless of appeals from internationally, the navy carried out these executions with no regard for human rights,” UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet mentioned in a press release.
“This merciless and regressive step is an extension of the navy’s ongoing repressive marketing campaign in opposition to its personal folks”.
The 4 have been executed for main “brutal and inhumane terror acts”, the International New Mild of Myanmar newspaper mentioned, with out saying when or how the lads have been killed.
The executions marked the nation’s first use of capital punishment in many years and sparked fears that extra demise sentences will likely be carried out.
The junta has sentenced dozens of anti-coup activists to demise as a part of its crackdown on dissent after seizing energy final 12 months.
Bachelet strongly condemned the truth that Myanmar had gone forward with the executions regardless of repeated calls from the UN and the broader worldwide group to chorus from doing so.
The executions, she mentioned, “are merciless violations of the rights to life, liberty and safety of an individual, and truthful trial ensures”.
She known as for the “speedy launch” of all political prisoners and urged Myanmar to “reinstate its de-facto moratorium on the usage of the demise penalty, as a step in direction of eventual abolition”.
In keeping with the UN, 117 folks, together with two kids, have been sentenced to demise for the reason that February 2021 coup. Of these, 41 have been sentenced in absentia.
Over 11,500 folks stay in detention for opposing the coup, Monday’s UN assertion mentioned.
“Most concerningly, over 30 per cent of over 2,100 folks killed since February 2021 have died in navy custody — most on account of ill-treatment,” Bachelet mentioned.