"The live broadcast of an execution is equivalent to a public execution and would violate the absolute prohibition of torture," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in a statement to the AFP news agency on Friday. #Hinrichtung #Trump #Menschenrechte (translated)
The UN condemned US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's plans to show the execution of death-row inmate Nidal Hasan in a livestream to the public as "torture" and a violation of the ban on torture. #Hinrichtung #Folter #Todesstrafe (translated)
People must understand that such acts have serious consequences. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously stated that the execution of a former Army psychiatrist approved by President Donald Trump should take place publicly by a firing squad. #Folterverbot #Militärhinrichtung #NidalHasan (translated)
The planned live broadcast of the execution of the attacker Nidal Hasan on December 3 at the military base Fort Hood in Texas, which was approved by US President Donald Trump, is criticized by the United Nations as a "violation of the ban on torture." #Folterverbot #Militärhinrichtung #NidalHasan (translated)
