The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounces the announcement of the live broadcast of the killing of Nidal Hasan.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced on Friday the live broadcast announced in the United States of the execution of Nidal Hasan, author of a massacre on a military base in 2009, seeing it as a form of torture.
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Nidal Hasan opened fire on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood, killing 13 people.
The live broadcast announced in the United States of the execution by firing squad of the author of a massacre on a military base would constitute a form of “torture”, denounced Friday the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The execution of the perpetrator of this massacre which left 13 dead in Texas in 2009 will be broadcast live, an official from the US Department of Defense announced Thursday.
“As the High Commissioner emphasized in response to public executions in Afghanistan and Iran, public executions constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Live broadcasting of an execution amounts to a public execution and would violate the absolute ban on torture,” the High Commission said in a message sent to AFP.
“Failure to comply with this prohibition would inevitably render the execution arbitrary in nature. This would result in a violation of the right to life,” he added.
The High Commission recalls that, according to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, “the absolute prohibition of torture prohibits public executions”.
The execution of Nidal Hasan, an American who opened fire on November 5, 2009 in a medical center on the immense Fort Hood base, will be “broadcast live,” the official of the American Department of Defense told AFP on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Military psychiatrist Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood to prevent soldiers from participating in a war he deemed “illegal” in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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