{"id":1447865,"date":"2024-01-16T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a8b28dfd1887cccb802fcd5103df7789"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:15:26","slug":"un-office-warns-al-nitrogen-execution-may-violate-international-ban-on-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/16\/un-office-warns-al-nitrogen-execution-may-violate-international-ban-on-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Office Warns AL Nitrogen Execution May Violate International Ban on Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States insists on continuing state-sanctioned killings despite a European ban on drugs commonly used in capital punishment, the United Nations Human Rights Office warned Tuesday that Alabama officials may soon violate international laws banning torture as they plan to use nitrogen gas in an upcoming execution. A number of U.N. officials have said in recent days that the planned...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/un-office-warns-al-nitrogen-execution-may-violate-international-ban-on-torture\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/un-office-warns-al-nitrogen-execution-may-violate-international-ban-on-torture\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A planned execution at Alabama&#8217;s Holman Correctional Facility on January 25 may breach two human rights treaties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6991,1608,4,72702,438,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447866,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447865\/revisions\/1447866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}