Guinea - Universal Periodic Review - Death Penalty - October 2024
Date: October 11, 2024
Country: Guinea
Partner: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
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Country: Guinea
Partner: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
View and Download Document:
Guinea abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 2016. Lawmakers removed the death penalty from the Code of Military Justice in 2017. Guinea’s last execution took place in 2001.
Guinea ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1978 but has
neither signed nor ratified or acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR.
