[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Nov. 16


INDIA:

Moumita's brother identifies body and demands death for accused


The Moumita Das rape and murder case has finally come to a close. Mirgunk Das, 
the brother of Moumita - the Gurgaon teacher who was raped before being 
murdered in Chakrata area near Dehradun last month - identified his sister 
through the shape of her navel.

The victim's family has demanded death penalty for the accused youths. After 
the identification, the postmortem was conducted and finally the body was 
cremated at Kedar Ghat in Uttarkashi on Saturday.

The police recovered a decomposed body near Damta 2 days back. The police was 
confident that they have recovered Moumita's body but the victim's kin had 
expressed confusion. But the arrival of Mirgunk and his other family members 
cleared the confusion.

Mirgunk said: "We demand death penalty for the culprits and I will fight a 
legal battle for this. We are satisfied with the work of the local police."

Uttarkashi Superintendent of Police Jagat Ram Joshi said: "Besides the navel, 
the family members also confirmed the identification by finding surgery mark on 
her belly and also the earring hole."

"There was little left in the decomposed body. There was no cloth, paper or 
ornaments recovered from the spot where the body was found. This made the 
identification process complicated," the police said.

A joint team of Uttarakhand Police and State Disaster Relief Force managed to 
recover Moumita's body on November 13.

The incident dates back to October 24 when Moumita and Avijit Paul, who were on 
a Diwali break, had suddenly disappeared from the Chakrata area, about 110 km 
from Dehradun.

The couple reached Dehradun on October 21 and left for Chakrata early the next 
day. The 2 had spoken with their families on October 23, Diwali morning, before 
they had gone to Tiger Falls.

They hired a taxi in Chakrata and this turned to be the biggest mistake of 
their lives.

Driver Raju, with 3 of his friends, first killed Paul and murdered Moumita 
after raping her in a moving car. The culprits dumped the bodies in river.

(source: Daily Mail)






IRAN----executions

6 more hanged in Iran as regime execution rate soars


6 more prisoners were hanged in Iran on November 13 as the execution rate soars 
under so-called 'moderate' Hassan Rouhani.

2 men named as Vahid Shahbakhsh and Mahmoud Shahbakhsh were hanged in the main 
prison in the city of Zahedan, south-eastern Iran.

Vahid, in his 30s, had been sentenced to 3 years in prison plus execution and 
was held in section 4 of the prison.

Mahmoud, 26, had been sentenced to death was being held in section 1 of the 
prison.

Both men were classified as 'security' prisoners, a term the Iranian regime 
uses for the inmates that are not being held as criminals. There is no 
information available on any legal process the men may have gone through.

Further reports received from inside the regime said another prisoner named as 
Bahador Niroomand was hanged in the main prison in the city of Bandar-Abbas on 
the same day.

3 more prisoners named as Morteza Rostami, Hooshang Saki and Mohammad 
Gholampour were also hanged also in Shahab prison in city of Kerman on November 
13.

The surge in secret executions in Iran comes as the regime claimed it would 
allow 2 United Nations human rights experts into the country - but the UN's 
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran Dr Ahmad Shaheed.

Dr Shaheed has made repeated requests to visit Iran since his appointment at 
the UN in 2010, but all have been denied.

He has also published numerous reports on the gross violations of human rights 
in Iran, and has been the target multiple personal attacks, crude insults and 
defamatory remarks by the regime's highest officials.

He wrote in an article in April: "The attacks against me and other UN officials 
pale in comparison to those often reported by Iranians who exercise their 
fundamental rights to free expression, belief, assembly and association."

(source: NCR-Iran)