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Responding to human rights report, UN official calls on Iraq to end executions

The United Nations human rights chief today called on Iraq to move towards abolishing the death penalty, saying - in response to the latest periodic report on Iraq's human rights record - that the rate of executions in the country this year "cannot be justified."

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