Capital punishment

Dobo Inmates Hopeful

However, in Madang’s Beon Prison, there are two detainees who have the Death Sentence upon their heads. Initially, there were four of them, but two escaped during a breakout.

The Dobo detainees are a group of 123 men from different villages in the Nahorawa LLG, who rampaged Sakiko Village in 2018, and brutally murdered 7 people, assumed of practicing sorcery. Two of those victims were children aged 3 and 5 at that time.

Death penalty is an ‘irreversible act’

On this important occasion, the European Union delegation to PNG calls for an end to state-sanctioned capital punishment.

Today, the EU delegation to PNG joined other EU missions around the globe to recall the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Countries are reminded that the death penalty is a violation of human rights.

A number of points were raised in today’s press briefing by the EU Ambassador to PNG.

First and foremost, Ambassador Ioannis Giogkarakis-Argyropoulos said capital punishment is an irreversible act.