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Only men aged 18–60 at the time of the crime could be executed; women were not subject to the death penalty. [2] [3] The government has since abolished the death penalty for all crimes. [2] According to Amnesty International, Mongolia, like China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, practiced executions in secrecy.
The mandatory death penalty was eventually repealed in April 2023, and under the revised laws, anyone convicted of murder would face either the death sentence or a lengthy jail term ranging between 30 and 40 years, [80] and 936 out of over 1,000 people left on death row had appealed to reduce their death sentences at the Federal Court of Malaysia.
The title of prime minister was only revived in 1990, when the People's Revolutionary Party gradually released its hold on power. Regardless of the changes of name, however, the modern Mongolian government recognizes the office as having existed continuously since 1912, and counts all holders of the office as prime ministers. [8]
Former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia offers some advice to new Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam: abolish the death penalty, and your country will be better off.
The Prime Minister of Mongolia is the head of government of Mongolia. [1] The office was established in 1912, shortly after the Bogd Khanate of Mongolia declared its independence from the Qing dynasty during the Mongolian Revolution of 1911 .
For the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty [177] in June 2016, President Elbegdorj sent a video message in which he stands up against capital punishment and shares his views and taken actions to fully abolish death penalty in Mongolia. [178] He did share the same views during his visit to Strasbourg in 2015 addressing the European ...
Batbold served as Mongolia's prime minister from 2009 to 2012 and is currently serving in the country's parliament. His lawyers said in a 2020 court filing in a separate civil case that Batbold ...
Peljidiin Genden (Mongolian: Пэлжидийн Гэндэн; 1892 or 1895 – November 26, 1937) was a Mongolian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Mongolia from 1924 to 1927, and the ninth prime minister of the country from 1932 to 1936.