Entries tagged with “Kazakhstan”
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Jan 03, 2021
NEWS BRIEF — Kazakhstan Abolishes the Death Penalty
After a seventeen-year moratorium on executions, the Republic of Kazakhstan has formally abolished the death penalty. On January 2, 2021, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev added his signature to a bill passed by Kazakhstan’s parliament December 29 ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, an international treaty that commits signatory nations to abolishing capital punishment. The country suspended all executions in December 2003.
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Sep 29, 2020
Kazakhstan Signs Global Treaty to Abolish Death Penalty
The Republic of Kazakhstan has joined the ranks of nations that have formally committed to abolishing the death penalty. On September 23, 2020, in conjunction with the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that the country had signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits signatory nations to abolish the death penalty. The action was taken as a step “[t]o…