The Death Penalty in the OSCE Area
SAFEGUARDS
(In your answers to these questions, please provide us with separate answers with
regard to civilian and military crimes.)
19) Please describe the procedure for informing all non-nationals who have been
accused of committing a crime for which the death penalty is a potential sentence
of their right to receive consular assistance. Is this procedure mandatory?
20) Please list all cases regarding the use of the death penalty that have been decided
since the last publication, or are currently ongoing, before international bodies
(e.g., UN Human Rights Committee, International Court of Justice, European
Court of Human Rights).
21) What system do you have in place to ensure that interim stays by the UN Human
Rights Committee are complied with and transmitted to all the relevant actors at
the national level?
22) Please list the names of any persons who have been executed while a procedure
regarding their case was ongoing before an international body.
23) Please describe the procedural process of considering a request for clemency,
including the factors that are taken into account when considering such a
request.
24) Please indicate the procedure for informing relatives of the date of execution and
the date that the execution has been carried out.
25) Please indicate the procedure for informing relatives of the place of burial of
executed persons.
MISCELLANEOUS
26) Please indicate ways in which you have co-operated with other intergovernmental
organizations on this issue in the period 30 June 2006 to 30 June 2007.
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