Africa: Statement for 52nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human Rights

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Chairperson, Honourable Commissioners,

Amnesty International would like to thank the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and respective African governments for their swift intervention and condemnation of the August execution of nine prisoners in the Gambia. The executions are a violation of international and regional human rights standards, as well as applicable national law, in relation to use of the death penalty.

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