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The criteria used in 2010 to draw up the list of priority countries within the “HMG
Strategy for the Abolition of the Death Penalty 2010-2015” are set out in that document.
The previous Government decided that limited resources should focus on countries ready
to engage in a dialogue about capital punishment likely to lead to reform. Many of
the countries prioritised in 2010 have implemented reforms in the intervening five
years. Saundi Arabia is included in the 2015 Annual Human Rights Report as a country
of concern, primarily because of its use of the death penalty. We do not intend to
publish a new strategy specific to the death penalty; but we will be publishing a
strategy for the FCO’s Human Rights and Democracy Programme Fund on 18 January, which
will show how work to abolish the death penalty is important under all three of the
strategy’s new themes. The FCO’s death penalty-related work will also be covered in
future instalments of the FCO’s Annual Human Rights Report.
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