Sept. 4
CHINA:
UK appeals China to commute Kyab's death sentence
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday appealed the Chinese
government to commute Dolma Kyab's death sentence and conduct "free and fair
trials" in line with international standards.
"We urge the Chinese authorities to commute the sentence and give a reprieve,"
said Hague to the House of Commons.
Earlier in August, China sentenced Dolma Kyab to death for allegedly killing
his wife Kunchok Wangmo, who the exile Tibetans say had died after setting
herself on fire in protest Chinese rule.
After Dolma Kyab from Tibet's Zoege County refused to comply with the Chinese
authorities orders to declare internal family feuds as the reason for his
wife's self-immolation, he was arrested.
Expressing his concern over the escalating rate of self-immolation protests in
Tibet Hague called on all parties to use their influence to bring "an end" to
it (self-immolation protests).
Since 2009, as many as 120 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Tibet
calling for freedom in Tibet and return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to
Tibet.
Answering a question of risking harm on religious and political freedom by
making excessively large noises about human rights abuses with the Chinese
government, Hague said, "I think that we should always be clear in the United
Kingdom about our belief in universal human rights and never be afraid to give
our advocacy for those rights. That includes relations with China."
Last month, Dharamshala based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy has
condemned the use of the death penalty and said it violates the fundamental
right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
"The persistent use of death penalty demonstrates China's rejection of the
United Nations Global Moratorium on the Death Penalty, adopted in 2007, which
establishes a suspension on executions with the view to abolish the death
penalty," the Tibetan right group said.
(source: Phayul)
INDIA:
Court awards death penalty to three in triple murder case
3 men have been awarded death penalty by a Delhi court for brutally murdering 3
family members, including a child, with a motive to rob their house nearly a
decade ago.
The court said it was a "rarest of rare" case as the three murders were
committed in "extremely brutal, diabolical, revolting and dastardly" manner and
they have shocked the collective conscience of the society.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau awarded capital punishment to Uttar
Pradesh residents Surender, 32, Vijay Pal, 27, and Virender, 33, and imposed a
fine of Rs 1.1 lakh on each of them. The court said out of the fine amount, Rs
3 lakh be given to family of the victims.
"This act of the convicts in brutally killing the 3 members of a family
including an aged woman and a child, has invited extreme indignation of the
community and shocked the collective conscience of the society whose
expectation from the authority... Is to inflict the death sentence which is
only natural and logical.
"This court cannot ignore the loud cry for justice by the society in this case
involving heinous crime of murder," the court said.
According to police, the brutal killings took place in a house in Rohini when
the three accused murdered 54-year-old Mridula Kishore, her 28-year-old son
Rajesh Kishore and her 9-year-old grandson Ankit.
The accused were known to the family as Surender belonged to Mridula's village
and the other 2 men were his relatives.
On the afternoon of February 5, 2004, the 3 accused went to the victims' house
and had lunch there. Thereafter, they killed the victims by slashing their
necks and strangulating them, the police said.
At the time of the incident, Rajesh was sleeping in his room and the minor had
just came from school.
After murdering them, the accused took away jewellery and Rs 1 lakh cash from
the house.
When the other family members came home in the evening, they found Mridula
lying in a pool of blood in her room, while Rajesh and the child were lying in
2 different rooms with injury marks on their necks.
(source: Zee News)
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