Morocco’s Human Rights Council Urges Support for UN Death Penalty Moratorium

The CNDH believes that this vote "will constitute the implementation of Article 20 of the Constitution which stipulates that the law protects the right to life as the primary right of every human being." In doing so, the debate on the abolition or not of the death penalty will see some progress.

The CNDH is one of those who have never ceased to call for the preservation of human life. In its memorandum published in October 2019, it called for the revision of the Penal Code. "The abolition of the death penalty is more than a prerequisite for the rule of law, it is a necessity in any just and free society where the dignity of citizens is not only respected but protected," it said, adding that this penalty "remains one of the most serious attacks on the right to life, this original, supreme and absolute right without which no right, no freedom, no justice can exist."