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03 January 2021 "The passage of the year gives us two good news on the death penalty, both from Asia: in Japan, 2020 ended without executions. Since 1993, the year of the resumption of the application of the death penalty, happened only one more time, in 2011. And on January 1, with the signing of the ratification by President Kassim-Joart Tokaiev of the Second Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Kazakhstan officially abolished the death penalty ".
Thus Amnesty International, regarding the new steps in favor of the abolition of the death penalty.
"The consent to ratification, in a country in which no executions have taken place since 2003, was given by Parliament last summer", the organization continued, which also underlines that the states that have abolished the death penalty by law or for practice in the world are currently 142.
Hope for Zaky
"We hope that something will happen for January 7".
Thus Riccardo Noury, spokesperson for Amnesty International Italia comments on the message that the family of the Egyptian researcher of the University of Bologna left on social networks.
Patrick George Zaki, a 29-year-old researcher, is being held in Egypt on charges ranging from subversive propaganda to terrorism.
He was attending a European master's degree in Bologna, until last February 7 when, having landed in Cairo for a short family vacation, he was arrested, tortured according to his lawyers, with continuous renewals of custody despite the international mobilization in his favor.
The next hearing is scheduled for mid-January.