{"id":61810,"date":"2016-01-14T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/heads-of-missions-of-the-european-union-and-member-states-condemn-executions-carried-out-in-mogadishu-on-3-january-and-dararwayne-and-mandera-somaliland-on-11-january-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:27:06","slug":"heads-of-missions-of-the-european-union-and-member-states-condemn-executions-carried-out-in-mogadishu-on-3-january-and-dararwayne-and-mandera-somaliland-on-11-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/heads-of-missions-of-the-european-union-and-member-states-condemn-executions-carried-out-in-mogadishu-on-3-january-and-dararwayne-and-mandera-somaliland-on-11-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads of Missions of the European Union and Member States condemn executions carried out in Mogadishu on 3 January and Dararwayne and Mandera (Somaliland) on 11 January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 13, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Heads of Missions of the European Union and Member States strongly and unequivocally oppose the death penalty in any circumstances. It is a serious violation of human rights and human dignity and cannot be used as an instrument for justice.<br \/>In this context, we are deeply concerned by reports of at least 4 executions in Somaliland on 11 January and by the authorities renewed use of the death penalty. We are similarly concerned with reports of an execution in Mogadishu on 3 January.<br \/>The EU and Member States&#8217; Heads of Missions call upon the respective authorities to halt executions and to apply a moratorium of the death penalty.<br \/>We are committed to support and work with the respective authorities in achieving a full abolition of the death penalty and in the strengthening of institutions to provide justice to all Somali people in a fair and transparent manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 13, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The Heads of Missions of the European Union and Member States strongly and unequivocally oppose the death penalty in any circumstances. It is a serious violation of human rights and human dignity and cannot be used as an instrument for justice.In this context, we are deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-61810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}