Amnesty Int'l condemns Japan for executing mentally ill inmates.LONDON, Sept. 11 Kyodo Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of released a report Thursday condemning Japan for allegedly executing ''mentally ill'' death row inmates. Japan is breaching its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a United Nations treaty based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976. in its treatment of prisoners on death row, the report on Japan's death penalty said. Conditions in prisons are harsh and prisoners on death row are especially vulnerable to developing mental health problems due to being imprisoned in isolation with little human contact, the report said. Death could come at a few hours' notice to the convicts and some live like that for decades, the report said. ''To allow a prisoner to live for prolonged periods under the daily threat of imminent death is cruel, inhuman and degrading,'' according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. James Welsh, the lead author of the report. |
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