South Sudan denies rights group report on prisoner executions
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JUBA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan on Friday denied a rights group's allegations over prisoner executions.
Ateny Wek Ateny, spokesman for the President of South Sudan, said that the government put a moratorium on executions and President Salva Kiir has not signed any prisoner execution since 2011.
"If there were prisoners executed before independence they were executed under Sudanese law," he told Xinhua in Juba.
However, Ateny said that execution law is still on the law books of the country, and added that abolishing the death penalty will depend on the views of South Sudanese during the constitutional review process, which is being undertaken by the National Constitutional Amendment Committee (NCAC) under the revitalized peace agreement.
Amnesty International said in a report on Friday that South Sudan has carried out more executions this year than it has done in any year since gaining independence in 2011. Enditem
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