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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Amnesty urges Pranab to halt executions

Amnesty urges Pranab to halt executions

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published Published on Dec 16, 2012   modified Modified on Dec 16, 2012
-The Hindu

With increasing demands for execution of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru, the Amnesty International has urged President Pranab Mukherjee to immediately halt all death sentences and go with the internationally accepted principle of “right to life”.

In a letter to Mr. Mukherjee, Amnesty International India Chief Executive G. Ananthapadmanaban urged him to commute all death sentences into terms of imprisonment, halt further executions and establish an official moratorium on executions as the first step towards abolishing death penalty.

Referring to November 21 execution of Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab in a secret manner in a Pune jail, Mr. Ananthapadmanaban said India had violated the internationally recognised “right to life” by executing him and signalled a step away from the regional and global trends towards abolition of death penalty.

As of Thursday, 140 countries have abolished death penalty in law or practice. In the Asia-Pacific region, 17 countries have abolished death penalty for all crimes, 10 were abolitionist in practice and one — Fiji — uses death penalty only for exceptional military crimes, Mr. Ananthapadmanaban claimed.

The Hindu, 15 December, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/amnesty-urges-pranab-to-halt-executions/article4202180.ece


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