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Sierra Leone - Human Rights Committee - Death Penalty - May 2024

Date: May 6, 2024
Country: Sierra Leone
Issues: Death Penalty, International Advocacy
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
Report Type: Shadow/Parallel Report

Sierra Leone abolished the death penalty in October 2021, after a longstanding de facto moratorium on executions. Sierra Leone has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights but has not made any apparent progress toward ratification of the Covenant’s Second Optional Protocol (OP2).