Botswana showing contempt for the right to life - Amnesty International

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Botswana is the only country in the region still showing flagrant contempt for the right to life, so says Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

Muchena’s comments appear in Amnesty International Global Report, Death Sentences and Executions 2016.

“In Southern Africa, Botswana was the only country to carry out an execution – the first in the country since 2013. A further 283 people across the region were under sentence of death at the end of 2016, including 157 in Zambia and 97 in Zimbabwe,” Muchena writes.

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Botswana showing contempt for the right to life - Amnesty International

Botswana is the only country in the region still showing flagrant contempt for the right to life, so says Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa.

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