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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 182985" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Amnesty International urges people to appeal for death-row convict Bhullar</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Saturday, April, 13 2013 - 12:27</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>CHANDIGARH/ NEW DELHI:</strong> Human Rights Organization Amnesty International has called upon people to petition Indian government, stating that death-row convict Davinderpal Singh Bhullar was at risk of imminent execution.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Supreme Court rejected Khalistani terrorist Bhullar’s mercy plea yesterday.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">A press release issued by the organization reads: “Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in August 2001 for his involvement in a bomb attack in New Delhi in 1993 that killed nine people. He was arrested at the New Delhi Airport in January 1995 under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), a law that subsequently lapsed, and contained provisions incompatible with international fair trial standards. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar had no access to a lawyer during his initial detention and trial. He was found guilty on the basis of an unsubstantiated “confession” that he made to the police. He later retracted his statement claiming it was made under police pressure. In March 2002, the Supreme Court upheld Bhullar’s death sentence, though one of the three judges on the bench had found him not guilty, saying there was no evidence to convict him. A review petition was dismissed by the same Supreme Court judges, again by a 2 to 1 majority, in December 2002. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Bhullar has been receiving treatment at a psychiatric facility in New Delhi and in 2011 his lawyer requested that the Supreme Court consider his mental condition as grounds for commuting his death sentence. The President of India rejected Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy petition in May 2011, eight years after the request was filed. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar challenged the President’s decision before the Supreme Court, seeking commutation of his death sentence on the grounds of inordinate delay in its consideration and challenging the constitutionality of his prolonged stay on death row. The Supreme Court rejected his plea on 12 April. This decision is likely to affect at least 17 more prisoners whose mercy petitions have been rejected by the President. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Please write immediately in Hindi, English or your own language: </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> Calling upon the Indian government to not execute Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, to remove him from death row immediately, and retry his case in proceedings that comply with international fair trial standards. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> Urging them to immediately halt any further executions, commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment, and establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> Reminding the Indian authorities that the UN General Assembly has repeatedly called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, and pointing out that India’s decision to resume executions has set the country against regional and global trends towards abolition of the death penalty. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The organization has urged people to send appeals to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the given addresses:</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">South Block, Raisina Hill</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">New Delhi 110001 India</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Fax: +9111 2301 9545</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Email: (via form) <a href="http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.htm" target="_blank">http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Salutation: Dear Prime Minister </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">President of India Pranab Mukherjee </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Rashtrapati Bhawan </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">New Delhi 110004 India</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Fax: +9111 2301 7290; 2301 7824 </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Email: (via form) <a href="http://www.helpline.rb.nic.in" target="_blank">http://www.helpline.rb.nic.in</a></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Salutation: Dear President Mukherjee </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">And copies to :Minister of Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">104 North Block</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Central Secretariat</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">New Delhi 110001 India</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Fax: +9111 2309 4221</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Email: <a href="mailto:hm@nic.in">hm@nic.in</a> Salutation: Dear Minister</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In the Indian justice system, a mercy petition is often the final opportunity for individuals to have their death sentences commuted by the executive, after the judicial appeals have been exhausted. In Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s case, the two judges in favour of the death sentence observed that the non-unanimous sentence could be a factor considered in the mercy petition process. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In resolution 2005/59, the UN Commission on Human Rights called upon all states that retain the death penalty “Not to impose the death penalty on a person suffering from any mental or intellectual disabilities or to execute any such person”. In the past, some mercy petition decisions have been challenged before the Supreme Court – the country’s highest court - on grounds of undue executive delay. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">However, the decision to hear such a challenge is left to the discretion of the Supreme Court. Mahendra Nath Das, Saibanna, Gnanprakasham, Simon, Meesekar Madaiah, Bilavendran, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan have also appealed to the Supreme Court for commutation on grounds that include delay on death row. In November 2012, the Indian state resumed executions after a hiatus of over eight years. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Since assuming office in 2012, President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected four mercy petitions involving seven people (Ajmal Kasab, Saibanna, Afzal Guru, Gnanprakasham, Simon, Meesekar Madaiah, and Bilavendran), and has commuted one death sentence (Atbir). </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In the past five months, India has executed two of these individuals: Ajmal Kasab on 21 November 2012 and Afzal Guru on 9 February 2013. Prior to these, the last execution in India had been that of Dhananjoy Chatterjee in August 2004. The two executions in the past five months – that of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru - were carried out in a clandestine manner. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In both cases, the public was not informed of the date of execution. In Afzal Guru’s case, his family received notification of the execution after it had been carried out and his body was not returned for burial. As of today, 140 countries are abolitionist in law or in practice. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Out of 41 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, 17 have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, 10 are abolitionist in practice and one – Fiji – uses the death penalty only for exceptional military crimes. Over the past 10 years, four Asia-Pacific countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes: Bhutan and Samoa in 2004, the Philippines in 2006 and the Cook Islands in 2007. UN bodies and mechanisms have repeatedly called upon member states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, including through the adoption of four UN General Assembly resolutions in December 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">India voted against all four resolutions. In a general comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which India is a State Party, the UN Human Rights Committee stated that Article 6 "refers generally to abolition [of the death penalty] in terms which strongly suggest ... that abolition is desirable. The Committee concludes that all measures of abolition should be considered as progress in the enjoyment of the right to life... " </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source</strong>: <a href="http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Amnesty-International-urges-people-to-appeal-for-death_row-convict-Bhullar.html" target="_blank">http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Amnesty-International-urges-people-to-appeal-for-death_row-convict-Bhullar.html</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 182985, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] [B][SIZE="5"]Amnesty International urges people to appeal for death-row convict Bhullar[/SIZE] Saturday, April, 13 2013 - 12:27 CHANDIGARH/ NEW DELHI:[/B] Human Rights Organization Amnesty International has called upon people to petition Indian government, stating that death-row convict Davinderpal Singh Bhullar was at risk of imminent execution. The Supreme Court rejected Khalistani terrorist Bhullar’s mercy plea yesterday. A press release issued by the organization reads: “Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in August 2001 for his involvement in a bomb attack in New Delhi in 1993 that killed nine people. He was arrested at the New Delhi Airport in January 1995 under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), a law that subsequently lapsed, and contained provisions incompatible with international fair trial standards. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar had no access to a lawyer during his initial detention and trial. He was found guilty on the basis of an unsubstantiated “confession” that he made to the police. He later retracted his statement claiming it was made under police pressure. In March 2002, the Supreme Court upheld Bhullar’s death sentence, though one of the three judges on the bench had found him not guilty, saying there was no evidence to convict him. A review petition was dismissed by the same Supreme Court judges, again by a 2 to 1 majority, in December 2002. Bhullar has been receiving treatment at a psychiatric facility in New Delhi and in 2011 his lawyer requested that the Supreme Court consider his mental condition as grounds for commuting his death sentence. The President of India rejected Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy petition in May 2011, eight years after the request was filed. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar challenged the President’s decision before the Supreme Court, seeking commutation of his death sentence on the grounds of inordinate delay in its consideration and challenging the constitutionality of his prolonged stay on death row. The Supreme Court rejected his plea on 12 April. This decision is likely to affect at least 17 more prisoners whose mercy petitions have been rejected by the President. Please write immediately in Hindi, English or your own language: Calling upon the Indian government to not execute Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, to remove him from death row immediately, and retry his case in proceedings that comply with international fair trial standards. Urging them to immediately halt any further executions, commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment, and establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; Reminding the Indian authorities that the UN General Assembly has repeatedly called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, and pointing out that India’s decision to resume executions has set the country against regional and global trends towards abolition of the death penalty. The organization has urged people to send appeals to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the given addresses: Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh South Block, Raisina Hill New Delhi 110001 India Fax: +9111 2301 9545 Email: (via form) [url]http://pmindia.nic.in/feedback.htm[/url] Salutation: Dear Prime Minister President of India Pranab Mukherjee Rashtrapati Bhawan New Delhi 110004 India Fax: +9111 2301 7290; 2301 7824 Email: (via form) [url]http://www.helpline.rb.nic.in[/url] Salutation: Dear President Mukherjee And copies to :Minister of Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde 104 North Block Central Secretariat New Delhi 110001 India Fax: +9111 2309 4221 Email: [email]hm@nic.in[/email] Salutation: Dear Minister In the Indian justice system, a mercy petition is often the final opportunity for individuals to have their death sentences commuted by the executive, after the judicial appeals have been exhausted. In Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s case, the two judges in favour of the death sentence observed that the non-unanimous sentence could be a factor considered in the mercy petition process. In resolution 2005/59, the UN Commission on Human Rights called upon all states that retain the death penalty “Not to impose the death penalty on a person suffering from any mental or intellectual disabilities or to execute any such person”. In the past, some mercy petition decisions have been challenged before the Supreme Court – the country’s highest court - on grounds of undue executive delay. However, the decision to hear such a challenge is left to the discretion of the Supreme Court. Mahendra Nath Das, Saibanna, Gnanprakasham, Simon, Meesekar Madaiah, Bilavendran, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan have also appealed to the Supreme Court for commutation on grounds that include delay on death row. In November 2012, the Indian state resumed executions after a hiatus of over eight years. Since assuming office in 2012, President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected four mercy petitions involving seven people (Ajmal Kasab, Saibanna, Afzal Guru, Gnanprakasham, Simon, Meesekar Madaiah, and Bilavendran), and has commuted one death sentence (Atbir). In the past five months, India has executed two of these individuals: Ajmal Kasab on 21 November 2012 and Afzal Guru on 9 February 2013. Prior to these, the last execution in India had been that of Dhananjoy Chatterjee in August 2004. The two executions in the past five months – that of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru - were carried out in a clandestine manner. In both cases, the public was not informed of the date of execution. In Afzal Guru’s case, his family received notification of the execution after it had been carried out and his body was not returned for burial. As of today, 140 countries are abolitionist in law or in practice. Out of 41 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, 17 have abolished the death penalty for all crimes, 10 are abolitionist in practice and one – Fiji – uses the death penalty only for exceptional military crimes. Over the past 10 years, four Asia-Pacific countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes: Bhutan and Samoa in 2004, the Philippines in 2006 and the Cook Islands in 2007. UN bodies and mechanisms have repeatedly called upon member states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, including through the adoption of four UN General Assembly resolutions in December 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. India voted against all four resolutions. In a general comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which India is a State Party, the UN Human Rights Committee stated that Article 6 "refers generally to abolition [of the death penalty] in terms which strongly suggest ... that abolition is desirable. The Committee concludes that all measures of abolition should be considered as progress in the enjoyment of the right to life... " [B]source[/B]: [url]http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/Amnesty-International-urges-people-to-appeal-for-death_row-convict-Bhullar.html[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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