Suriname - Human Rights Committee - Death Penalty - June 2024
Date: June 3, 2024
Country: Suriname
Issues: Death Penalty, International Advocacy
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
Report Type: Shadow/Parallel Report
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Country: Suriname
Issues: Death Penalty, International Advocacy
Mechanism: UN Human Rights Committee
Report Type: Shadow/Parallel Report
View and Download Document:
Suriname abolished the death penalty in the Penal Code in 2015 and in the Military Penal Code
in August 2021. Suriname has not yet ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (OP2), aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.
