[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Jan. 28



BANGLADESH:

3 get death penalty, 1 life for murdering peasant in Rangpur


3 people have been awarded the death sentence and another person life term for 
killing a farmer in Rangpur over 2 decades ago.

Rangpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Abu Jafar Mohammad Kamruzzaman 
delivered the verdict on Thursday noon.

The death-row convicts are Farhad Hossain, 40, Nur Mohammad, 41, and Md Abdul, 
40, all hailing from Chhoto Kalyani village under Pirgachha Upazila.

Abdus Sattar, 70, has been awarded life term and fined Tk 10,000, in default of 
which he will have to suffer 6 more months in prison.

Abu Siddique was killed on Oct 2, 1993 over a land dispute.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police pressed charges against the 4 
in October, 2003 in the case over the murder.

The 4 accused were present in court during the delivery of the verdict, a 
public prosecutor said.

(source: bdnews24.com)






INDIA:

6 found guilty of gang rape, murder in India


An Indian court convicted 6 men Thursday of gang-raping and murdering a student 
as she walked home after an exam in 2013, in a case that sparked outrage over 
women's safety.

Security was tight outside the court in the eastern city of Kolkata for the 
verdict, with chanting protesters demanding justice and scuffling with police.

Senior public prosecutor Dipak Ghosh told AFP that 6 accused were convicted of 
gang-raping the 21-year-old woman, as well as murder, interfering with evidence 
and other charges.

Judge Sanchita Sarkar told the packed court that 2 others "are acquitted due to 
lack of evidence".

"The... punishment will be announced after hearing the convicts on Friday," she 
said.

The 6 face punishments ranging from 20 years in jail to the death penalty.

The gang attacked the university student as she returned home to her village, 
50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Kolkata, in June 2013.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was grabbed after getting 
off the bus before being dragged to a nearby abandoned farm.

She was found gagged and laying in a pool of blood in a field the next morning. 
Evidence showed she had been repeatedly raped.

The attack triggered anger in West Bengal state and came just months after the 
fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December 2012 that shone a global 
spotlight on violence against women in India.

The 2012 incident led to an overhaul of India's rape laws including speeding up 
of trials and tougher penalties for offenders, but high numbers of assaults 
persist.

About 200 protesters gathered outside the court for Thursday's verdict 
demanding justice, an AFP reporter said.

1 policeman was injured in scuffles as protesters tried to enter the court 
complex, police said.

(source: Express Tribune)

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VHP demands amendment of Foreign National Act with provision of death 
penalty----VHP demands law to push back infiltrators


Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has asked the Centre to 
enact a law and formulate a time-bound action plan to push back Bangladeshi 
Muslim infiltrators.

"A time-bound action plan to evict all Bangladeshi Muslims, for that the 1952 
electoral roll should be based, for verification whether Indian or Bangladeshi 
paternity test should be done and centre should be established. Foreign 
Security Act should be amended especially for Bangladeshi Muslims. If any 
Bangladeshi Muslim is found, because they come to capture India they should be 
sentenced to death and with first trial court should be established," Togadia 
told reporters here.

Togadia, currently on a 3-day visit to Tripura, claimed that over 15 million 
Bangladeshis were living illegally in the northeastern states and equal number 
was residing in other parts of India.

The VHP leader demanded that the 1951 electoral rolls must be the base for 
identifying infiltrators.

He urged the Centre to set up paternity test centers in all northeastern states 
to identify the infiltrators.

"The BJP-led government must enact a 'foreign national act' to evict 
infiltrators, especially Muslims, to Bangladesh or their own country," he 
added.

He said that India would set up health and educational centres across the 
country to provide free health service, education and employment to Hindu 
Bangladeshi those are persecuted to come to India.

He further added that the VHP wants Hindus in India to be "protected, 
prosperous and honoured".

Togadia added that if time bound initiatives are not take by the state 
government and the union government to protect Northeast, Assam and Bengal for 
infiltrated Bangladeshi Muslims then very soon these areas will turn into 
territory of greater Bangladesh.

(source: Business Standard)





CHINA----execution

China Executes Tajik For Drug Trafficking


Chinese authorities have executed a Tajik national convicted of drug 
trafficking.

Tajik Foreign Ministry officials told RFE/RL that Hasan Yusufov, 51, was 
executed early in the morning on January 28.

Tajik Embassy representatives were allowed to meet with Yusufov before his 
execution, the officials said.

Yusufov was arrested in Urumqi, the capital of China's northwestern region of 
Xinjiang, in 2011 and was charged with drug trafficking.

He was later found guilty and sentenced to death.

All attempts by the Tajik Embassy to overturn the death sentence were 
fruitless, the Foreign Ministry officials said, adding that talks were under 
way to bring Yusufov's body home to Tajikistan.

Tajik officials said earlier that 16 Tajik citizens were currently in China's 
prison system, 4 of whom are on death row while 5 are serving life terms.

(source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)






IRAN:

Death Row Iran: Inside the women's prison where inmates await execution, bring 
up their babies and struggle to survive against the odds; Sadegh Souri shot the 
collection of powerful images, which are titled 'Waiting for Capital 
Punishment'


Sleeping in squalid conditions, queuing for hours on end for food and 
struggling to care for a newborn baby are just some of the horrifying 
challenges girls in Iran's grim prison's face.

Dozens of juvenile offenders - some of whom are just 9 years old - are 
languishing on death row for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed 
robbery.

In Iran, the 2nd-biggest user of capital punishment in the world, young women 
can be hanged for crimes, following unfair trials, including those based on 
forced confessions extracted through torture and other ill-treatment.

The frightened girls are imprisoned in a Juvenile Delinquents Correction Centre 
after their sentence verdict and a large number of the inmates are then killed 
when they reach 18.

Last year there was a disturbing escalation in the use of the death penalty in 
Iran, with at least 830 people executed between 1 January and 1 November 2015. 
There were reports that at least 4 of these were juvenile offenders.

Award-winning photographer Sadegh Souri, who lives in Tehran, has given an 
insight to the harsh conditions young people face in these grimy institutions 
as they anticipate their fate.

Mr Souri, documentary winner at the 2015 Lens Culture visual storytelling 
awards, shot 17-year-old Mahsa.

She was imprisoned after killing her father with a kitchen knife in a dispute 
over her future husband.

(source: Daily Mail)

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The List Of 100 Death Row Prisoners In Sanandaj Prison

https://hra-news.org/en/list-100-death-row-prisoners-sanandaj-prison

(source: Human Rights Activists News Agency)