UN / SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTIONS

A UN spokesperson said UN human rights chief Michel Bachelet “strongly condemned the beheading of 37 men, in spite of repeated appeals by the UN human rights system about the lack of due process and fair trail guarantees, allegations that confessions were obtained through torture, and the age of some of those executed.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:13
• Production Date: 24 April 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - UNHCHR
• Subject Topical: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: SAUDI ARABIA
• MAMS Id: 2383499
• Parent Id: 2383499
• Alternate Title: unifeed190424h

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STORY: UN / SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTIONS
TRT: 1:13
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel Bachelet strongly condemned the beheading of 37 men, in spite of repeated appeals by the UN human rights system about the lack of due process and fair trail guarantees, allegations that confessions were obtained through torture, and the age of some of those executed. According to available information, at least three of those executed were minors at the time they were sentenced, and the UN human rights office now says that most of the 37 belonged to Shia Muslim minority, some had also been involved in protests. In various cases, several UN human rights experts had raised concerns, in fact serious concerns, with the authorities. Ms. Bachelet appealed to the authorities to halt the pending executions and to engage constructively with the UN human rights office and independent experts on the many concerns related to the imposition of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.”
5. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

A UN spokesperson said UN human rights chief Michel Bachelet “strongly condemned the beheading of 37 men, in spite of repeated appeals by the UN human rights system about the lack of due process and fair trail guarantees, allegations that confessions were obtained through torture, and the age of some of those executed.”

Speaking to reporters in New York today (24 Apr), UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, according to available information, “at least three of those executed were minors at the time they were sentenced, and the UN human rights office now says that most of the 37 belonged to Shia Muslim minority, some had also been involved in protests.”

Dujarric said, “In various cases, several UN human rights experts had raised concerns, in fact serious concerns, with the authorities.”

The spokesperson said Bachelet appealed to the authorities to halt “pending executions and to engage constructively with the UN human rights office and independent experts on the many concerns related to the imposition of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.”