UN calls US plans to livestream execution 'abhorrent'

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The ‌United ​Nations ​on Friday called US plans to livestream the execution of Nidal ‌Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 ⁠people at the Fort Hood military base in ‌2009, "abhorrent" and said it ‌could be a violation of prohibitions against torture.

"These kinds of public executions ​we've seen in other countries, whether it's Iran or Afghanistan ... can constitute ⁠a form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, or ​punishment," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told a daily UN briefing in New ​York.

"Showing it live is ‌tantamount ... to it being public, and could be a violation ⁠of the prohibition against torture," he said. "A government executing someone in public, or in ⁠front of live cameras, frankly, is abhorrent."

Hasan is ​set to become the first person to be executed by US military firing squad since 1945. ‌The execution is scheduled for December 3 at the same ‌sprawling Texas base where Hasan opened ⁠fire with a ‌handgun in a ​medical facility.

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Mark Porter and David ‌Gaffen)

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