Togo becomes 82nd State Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

July 20, 2015

On 10 July 2015 by the government of the Togolese Republic acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. The last execution in Togo was carried out in 1978.

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Togo becomes 82nd State Party to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR

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