Please join Dorsey & Whitney LLP and

The Advocates for Human Rights’ Death Penalty Project

for our bi-monthly lunchtime speaker series:

The Death Penalty

in Iraq

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
12:00-1:00 P.M.

at

Dorsey & Whitney

Seattle Room, 15th Floor

50 South 6th Street

 Minneapolis, MN 55402

This presentation will cover issues related to capital punishment and human rights in the Iraqi context.   Under the government of Saddam Hussein, the death penalty was used frequently.  Following the US invasion, the death penalty was suspended, but the punishment was reinstated in 2004.  Our speaker will discuss the who, how, where, when and why of the death penalty in Iraq.  The presenter will also provide insight into Iraqis' perception of the death penalty before and after the US invasion.  Finally, the presenter will discuss the human rights issues raised by use of the death penalty in the Iraqi context, including the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq's perspective towards death penalty, in light of the Canal Hotel bombing in August 2003.

This lecture is a brown bag lunch.  Beverages will be provided.  

Please R.S.V.P. to Laura Young at The Advocates for Human Rights by Monday, April 21.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 128 • Email: lyoung@advrights.org