Death Row: NGO Criticises Libya

A civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the Acting Chairperson of the Africa Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, to urgently restrain Libya from executing Nigerians on death row.

The organisation is urging the Africa Commission to urgently invoke Article 111 (Rule of Procedure) authority to request that Libya adopt provisional measures in order to stop the irreparable damage that would be caused to the Complainants and their African Charter rights.

SERAP argues that the prisoners are not denuded of their rights by mere conviction, adding that carried out, their death sentences will amount to inhuman or degrading treatment.

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