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Saturday 19 Sep 2015 - 14:42 Makkah mean time-6-12-1436
 Geneva (IINA) - Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that the Kingdom disagrees with the report presented by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on death penalty.
“It is imperative for us not to forget the rights of victims while listening to the calls for abrogation of the provision in the law for capital punishment in the pretext of protecting the rights of the killer,” said Faisal Bin Hassan Trad, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, the Saudi Press Agency reported. In a speech at the UN Human Rights Council, Trad said that the UN chief’s report highlighted only the opinion of countries that abrogated the capital punishment but not mentioned the viewpoints of those carrying out death penalty to ensure justice to all by protecting the rights of the victims. He said that any future reports from the UN on this topic need to carry the Kingdom’s opinion in this regard.
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