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EU warns online platforms over livestreaming US execution planned by Pentagon

This April 9, 2010 file photo released by the Bell County Sheriffs Department, shows US Major Nidal Hasan.
This April 9, 2010 file photo released by the Bell County Sheriffs Department, shows US Major Nidal Hasan after being moved from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. © AFP

The European Union warned digital platforms on Monday against livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist who is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3 for killing 13 people at a military base in 2009. Under EU rules, platforms have an obligation to moderate shocking and violent content, including capital punishment.

The European Union (EU) on Monday warned digital platforms against showing a planned livestream execution of the perpetrator of a mass killing in the United States.

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