BURUNDI : Already one year of detention for Germain Rukuki This Friday, 13th July 2018, marks the sad anniversary of the arbitrary detention of Germain Rukuki, the FIACAT and the ACATs keep mobilizing for his release. A year after his arrest...

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Message from the President of ACAT Mali FIACAT and the World Coalition against the Death Penalty set up a joint programme in 2015 to increase mobilisation towards the abolition of the death penalty in Africa. The aim of this programme is to...

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Cotonou, Paris, 6 June 2018 - On 5 June, Benin’s National Assembly adopted a new Criminal Code removing all references to the death penalty from the law. Although the last execution in Benin took place in 1987, the country’s courts continued to...

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Ouagadougou, Paris, June 1, 2018 - May 31, the National Assembly of Burkina Faso adopted a new penal code with 83 votes against 43 votes. It provides for a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and thus abolishes the death penalty in the country...

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