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  UN chief urges Pakistan's leader to stop executions

  World | December 27, 2014 8:55 IST

  United Nations: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Pakistan's leader to stop the execution of convicts and re-impose a moratorium on the death penalty.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says the U.N. chief made the appeal during a

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  UN committee demands that Iran stop executions

  World | November 19, 2014 8:10 IST

  United Nations: The U.N. General Assembly human rights committee approved a resolution on Tuesday expressing deep concern about rights violations in Iran, including the “alarmingly high frequency” of the use of the death penalty.Support came