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Why prisoners are a priority in vaccine rollout
19 Jan 2021
Prisoners will be vaccinated in phase two of the vaccine rollout programme, sparking fierce local and international debate. (David Harrison/M&G)
NEWS ANALYSIS
Who should be vaccinated against Covid-19 first? While in the main this question is a public health one, it has become a moral and political contentious issue, not just in South Africa but also in the rest of the world. Whereas there seems to be no question that frontline health workers must be the first group to receive the vaccine, the inclusion or exclusion of incarcerated persons in the next phase has sparked controversy.
Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has spared convicts sentenced to death in the authoritarian central Asian nation. The former Soviet state has ratified a UN treaty against capital punishment.
Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev speaking to his Nur Otan party
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree abolishing the death penalty in Kazakhstan, according to a statement released by his office on Saturday.
The new law makes permanent the existing moratorium on state executions in place since 2003, introduced by then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
In September 2020, Tokayev spoke before the UN General Assembly saying that the decision was driven to fulfill a fundamental right to life and human dignity. Last year, the oil-rich country joined the UN s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a multilateral treaty included in the International Bill of Human Rights.
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