The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area Sweden and Germany reported on their bilateral activities with countries that have retained the death penalty, through raising the issue in dialogue with authorities and representatives of civil society. On 11 and 12 June 2015, Belgium participated in the Asian Regional Congress on the death penalty,18 an international event sponsored by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs19 that took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Norway has also announced that it will host the World Congress against the Death Penalty in June 2016.20 As in previous years, debates on re-introducing the death penalty in abolitionist States continued. In Serbia, following the murder of a teenaged girl, the Minister of Interior stated that, in certain instances, he regretted that Serbia had abolished the death penalty.21 However, the Minister of Justice confirmed that the possibility of re-introducing the death penalty had not been raised, reiterated that Serbia had abolished the death penalty, and asserted that the European Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibited that form of punishment.22 After the murder of a 21-old woman who was working as a shop assistant in the town of Kaposvar, which took place in April 2015,23 the Prime Minister of Hungary stated that “the question of the death penalty should be put on the agenda in Hungary”.24 In their responses to the ODIHR questionnaire, Estonia, Hungary, Greece and the United Kingdom reported that their nationals faced the death penalty in the United States. Norway provided information that two of its nationals were sentenced to the death penalty in countries outside the OSCE region (Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo). There are currently 13 nationals of the United Kingdom who are facing the death penalty in countries besides the United States, specifically in: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia and Pakistan. Several countries did not provide any information about this issue due to privacy considerations and the sensitivity of the cases. 18  The response of Belgium to 2015 OSCE/ODIHR Questionnaire on the state of death penalty. 19  The response of Norway to 2015 OSCE/ODIHR Questionnaire on the state of death penalty. 20  Ibid. 21  “Savage Murder of Teen Shocks Serbia”, Balkan Insight, 7 August 2014, <http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/ teenage-girl-s-cruel-murder-shocks-serbia>. 22  “Death penalty has been abolished, explains minister”, B92, 7 August 2014, <http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics. php?yyyy=2014&mm=08&dd=07&nav_id=91229>. 23  “Hungary PM calls for death penalty debate with EU”, BBC, 30 April 2015, <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32523384>. 24  “Hungary PM: bring back death penalty and build work camps for immigrants”, The Guardian, 29 April 2015, <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/hungary-pm-death-penalty-work-camps-for-immigrants-viktor-orban>. 12