UN Security Council
1988

Resolution 615 (1988) of 17 June 1988 The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 503 (1982) of 9 April 1982, 525 (1982) of 7 December 1982, 533 (1983) of 7 June 1983, 547 (1984) of 13 January 1984 and 610 (1988) of 16 March 1988 in which, inter alia, it expressed its grave concern that the Pretoria régime’s practice of sentencing to death and executing its opponents has adverse consequences on the search for a peaceful resolution of the South African situation, Gravely concerned at the deteriorating situation in South Africa, the worsening human suffering resulting from the apartheid system and, inter alia, the South African régime’s renewed state of emergency on 9 June 1988, its imposition on 24 February 1988 of severe restrictions on eighteen anti-apartheid and labour organizations and eighteen individuals committed to peaceful forms of struggle and the harassment and detention of church leaders on 29 February, all of which further undermine the possibilities of a peaceful resolution of the South African situation, Having considered the question of the death sentences