The UN condemned the broadcast of the execution of a US soldier

Broadcasting the execution by firing squad of US soldier Nidal Malik Hassan, scheduled for December 3, would violate the ban on torture, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth previously said the execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 fellow soldiers at a base in Texas, would be broadcast live.

“The live broadcast of an execution is tantamount to a public execution and would be a violation of the absolute prohibition of torture,” OHCHR told AFP, as quoted by the Guardian.

The Office added that it had previously made similar statements about public executions in Afghanistan and Iran, noting that they constitute a form of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.