BRUSSELS, Nov. 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Union expressed this Thursday to the Kuwaiti ambassador, Nawaf Alenei, the bloc’s rejection of the seven executions carried out this week by the authorities of the Gulf country, the Foreign Action Service reported in a statement.
The Secretary General of the Foreign Action Service, Stefano Sannino, has summoned the Kuwaiti ambassador to Brussels, to whom he has reiterated the EU’s opposition to capital punishment under all circumstances and has pointed out that Human Rights are at the center of the foreign relations of the Twenty-seven.
The execution of four Kuwaitis and three foreign citizens, the first in the country since 2017, comes as Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas is visiting the country.
Precisely the United Nations Office for Human Rights has considered the executions in Kuwait “worrying” and has called for a moratorium on this type of punishment.