STRASBOURG, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS: The Council of Europe on Saturday hailed Armenian President Robert Kocharian’s decision to commute the sentences of 42 prisoners on death row to life imprisonment, AFP said.
“I am delighted that President Kocharian has taken such a positive and commendable step forward,” the organization’s secretary general, Walter Schwimmer, said in reaction to Friday’s announcement in Yerevan.
“The death penalty is an affront to all notions of dignity and human rights, and has no place in the Europe of today.
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