Browsing Tag: Death Penalty

The Indian government should stop impending executions and renew its moratorium on capital punishment, Human Rights Watch said today.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Leaders and Members of Canadian Parliament crossing the party lines joined Sikhs in demanding India to abolish the death penalty. More than five thousand Sikhs from all over Canada gathered at Parliament Hill in solidarity with Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana who is on death row in India.

The two mercy petitions by Sikh organisations for former Punjab CM Beant Singh's killer Balwant Singh Rajoana could get derailed if the death row convict made a contradictory plea to the President seeking no clemency.

Gurdial Singh, Punjab Trust, France said that the protests would culminate in a large Europe-wide demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday 29 March. "Members of the European Parliament from across Europe are expected to join the demonstration and show solidarity with the Sikh community by demanding the time has come for the death penalty in India to come to an end" he said .

While Sikh youths in Jalandhar organised a protest march from Gurudwara Singh Sabha, Model town to Guru Nanak Mission chowk before marching towards Nakodar chowk, the Dal Khalsa’s youth wing - the Sikh Youth of Punjab (SYP) - held a ‘Khalsa March’ from Hariana to Hoshiarpur to express its solidarity with Rajoana...

The Punjab Jails Department has refused to execute the order of a Chandigarh court asking the Patiala Central Jail authorities to hang Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana. On Monday, the Central Jail, Patiala authorities also returned the “black or death warrant” of the Chandigarh Court

As per media reports “Black Warrants” for the execution of Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana, who has been sentenced death penalty in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination case, reached Patiala Central Jail authorities on February 13, 2012 and he will be hanged in Patiala central jail at 9 am on March 31.

“The use of the death penalty undermines human dignity and any miscarriage or failure of justice in the implementation of the death penalty is irreversible and irreparable,” the memorandum said. Bhullar was sentenced to death for masterminding a 1993 car bomb attack in front of the Youth Congress office in New Delhi...