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The U.N. General Assembly's resolution condemned the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for using "widespread terror" and systematic torture to repress dissent and urged it to abide by international human rights treaties. The vote was 102 in favor and three against with 60 abstentions. The "no" votes were cast by Libya, Mauritania and Sudan. Iraq makes frequent use of the death penalty, as well as summary and arbitrary executions, political killings and enforced or involuntary disappearances, the resolution said. The Iraqi government also suppresses freedom of thought, expression, information, association, assembly and movement through fear of arrest, imprisonment, execution, expulsion, house demolitions, and other sanctions, the resolution added.