NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·JANUARY 1, 2003

At the UN Commission for Human Rights in 2003, Algeria...

At the UN Commission for Human Rights in 2003, Algeria for the first time did not vote against the resolution on the death penalty but declared itself absent from the vote

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At the UN Commission for Human Rights in 2003, Algeria for the first time did not vote against the resolution on the death penalty but declared itself absent from the vote. Algeria said it had been observing a moratorium for a number of years and favoured a gradual approach towards the abolition of the death penalty.

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