UN Calls on Iraq to Stop Applying Death Penalty
Lesson Brief
BBC Arabic
On October 20, BBC Arabic reported that the UN has called on the Iraqi government to suspend or stop its use of the death penalty. A UN human rights report stated that Iraq's use of the death penalty has failed to to combat crime and has not been carried out according to appropriate standards.
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- standards, gauges
- معايير
- (here) to be fulfilled, to be satisfied
- تَوَفَّرَ ، يَتَوَفَّرُ
- victims
- ضحايا
- miscarriage of justice
- إجهاض العدالة
- condemning
- إدانة
- to suspend, cease
- عَلَّقَ ، يُعَلِّقُ
- a failure to
- اخفاق في
- justice
- عدالة
- far from
- بعيدا عن
- to be based on, to rely on
- اسْتَنَدَ ، يَسْتَنِدُ إلى