[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

December 12




TRINIDAD:

Moving away from the death penalty



As chair of the Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL), an independent not-for-profit 
organisation devoted to working towards the abolition of the death penalty in 
our region, I was invited to present a paper on the death penalty in the 
English-speaking Caribbean at a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on 
Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington DC on December 6. The president of the IACHR 
is Justice Margarette May Macaulay, a Jamaican.

Joining me were Kevin Miguel Rivera Medina, president of the World Coalition 
Against the Death Penalty (WCADP) and Jessica Corredor Villamil, programme 
manager of the WCADP.

(source: Trinidad Express)








SYRIA:

Court In Damascus Sentences Leaders Of Terrorist Groups To Death - Reports

The criminal court of Damascus on Tuesday issued in absentia death penalty to 
the leaders of several terrorist groups, including Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham 
(formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, outlawed in Russia), local media reported.

According to al-Watan newspaper citing court's decision,?the death penalty list 
includes over 40 militants, mostly from the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. 
The leader of the Jaysh al-Islam is among the sentenced, according to the 
newspaper.

The militants were accused of shelling residential areas of Damascus - which 
has resulted in casualties among many civilians, including children and women - 
and other crimes.

The court's decision can be reversed if the accused will confess and surrender 
to the authorities, a Syrian lawmaker told the newspaper.

Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011, with the government forces 
fighting against numerous opposition groups and militant and terrorist 
organizations.

(source: urdupoint.com)








IRAN----execution

Man Hanged at Urmia Prison



A Prisoner was executed at Urmia Central Prison on December 10, 2018.

According to the IHR sources, Younes Azizi was hanged on Monday, December 10, 
at Urmia Central Prison. He was sentenced to death for drug offenses.

“Younes was sentenced to death for possessing 100 kilograms of morphine. His 
case was sent for the revision under the new anti-narcotic law, but the verdict 
was upheld because he had three other drug-related sentences,” the source told 
IHR.

Younes Azizi was transferred to the solitary confinement a day before the 
execution.

The Iranian media outlets have not published news related to the aforementioned 
execution so far.

(source: Iran Human Rights)