[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

September 24




AUSTRALIA:

Guilty Screening for World Day Against the Death Penalty----The film recreates 
the last 72 hours of Myuran Sukumaran's life.



On Wednesday October 10, the 16th World Day Against the Death Penalty, Guilty, 
the film recreating the final 72 hours in the life of Bali 9 member Myuran 
Sukumaran, will screen in cinemas across Australia.

Sukumaran, who grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, was executed by firing 
squad in Indonesia in 2015 alongside fellow Australian Andrew Chan after both 
were convicted of drug trafficking - and despite international public outcry.

In the lead up to his death, Sukumaran became an accomplished artist under the 
tutorship of Ben Quilty; the film mixes archival and dramatic material from the 
final 3 days of his life to capture his talent and the tragedy of his death.

Reprieve Australia campaigns for an end to the death penalty and arranges 
volunteer legal and humanitarian assistance for some of the more than 20,000 
people worldwide on deathrow.

The organisation will receive 10 % of the ticket sales from Guilty screenings 
in cinemas in the ACT, NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and 
Western Australia. Watch the trailer at 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fG9LsQRCv4.

Melbourne screenings:

Cinema Nova, Carlton - 7pm

Village Cinemas Southland, Cheltenham - 7pm

Village Cinemas Karingal, Frankston - 7pm Hoyts Cinema Melbourne Central, 
Melbourne CBD - 6.30pm

(source: broadsheet.com.au)








PHILIPPINES:

Dela Rosa pushes death penalty for drug lords



Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa 
reiterated his call for the return and expansion of the death penalty for 
people convicted of illegal drugs charges.

In a visit to Baguio City to meet with students of the National Institute for 
Information Technology (NIIT) on the sustainable programs against illegal drugs 
and peace promotion, the corrections chief said it does not matter whether the 
guilty just possessed illegal drugs or managed a drug empire, they should go 
straight to their death beds.

"Prior to my assignment as corrections chief, the apprehensions done against 
those involved in illegal drugs outside the corrections bureau were coming from 
inside the corrections facility, so what we did was to segregate 160 Chinese 
personalities from their Filipino counterpart to stop the transactions they 
were conducting," Dela Rosa said.

In his stint as corrections chief, Dela Rosa noted the presence of marijuana 
transactions between the Chinese and Filipinos but still indicated shabu as the 
leading drug of choice.

"Not so much on marijuana but more on shabu because of the return of investment 
between the 2 illegal drugs, most likely if there were transactions of 
marijuana, it may have likely came from the Cordillera region," the corrections 
chief stated.

At present, a controversial House bill already approved on 3rd and final 
reading allows death penalty only for drug convicts of 7 particular offenses.

When asked on what he would pursue once he reaches the senate, Dela Rosa said 
aside from the death penalty, he would look into returning the training of PNP 
personnel to the organization and the strict regulation on the acquisition of 
SIM cards.

"I will also focus on a bill returning the training of police personnel to the 
PNP since this is very important for the discipline of our police force, aside 
from the use of post paid SIM cards instead of prepaid so that it would be easy 
to monitor criminal elements involved in illegal activities," Dela Rosa added.

During his incumbency as PNP Chief, Dela Rosa was the face of the Duterte 
administration's anti-illegal drug campaign.

(source: sunstar.com.ph)








IRAN----executions

31 Executions Including 9 Political Prisoners Within 20 Days



On Saturday, September 22, the falling regime of mullahs executed 9 prisoners 
collectively in Adelabad prison in Shiraz. The criminal head of the "Justice" 
of Fars province had already reiterated that he will deal seriously with those 
who disturb the order and security of the society.

Thus, the number of executions in the past 20 days amounted to at least 31, 
most of them young individuals. 9 of them were Kurdish and Balouch political 
prisoners who were hanged in Gohardasht prison in Karaj, Zahedan and Orumieh 
for the fabricated charge of "Moharebeh" [waging war against God] and 
disturbing the security of the regime. In Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 8 other 
prisoners were executed collectively on September 5. 1 prisoner was hanged 
publicly in Marvdasht.

The hated system of the Velayat-e faqih, being engulfed with domestic and 
international crises, and incapable of confronting the growing popular 
protests, has resorted to a new wave of executions and oppression in a bid to 
escalate the atmosphere of terror and intimidation.

The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights advocates, in 
particular the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on 
the situation of human rights in Iran, and the Working Group on Arbitrary 
Executions, to condemn these executions and take immediate action to stop these 
medieval crimes in the 21st century.

(source: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran)

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Iran executes 9 men convicted of rape



Iranian media say 9 men convicted of raping a woman have been hanged.

The Arman daily reported Sunday that the men broke into the woman's villa in 
the southern Fars province and raped her, without specifying when the crime 
took place. They were hanged Saturday after the Supreme Court reaffirmed their 
sentence earlier this month.

Arman quoted Ali Alghasimehr, the provincial chief justice, as saying that the 
woman withdrew her complaint but that authorities carried out the punishment 
anyway.

Rights groups say Iran is one of the world's leading executioners, and have 
repeatedly called on it to abolish the death penalty.

(source: Associated Press)