from begining till end, everything has gone wrong, so sad On 2/10/13, Sandeep Vaidya <vaidyasandeep2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > PUCL Statement on the Hanging of Afzal Guru > N. Delhi, 09.02.2013 > The PUCL condemns the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail early > in the morning (9.2.2013) today. > The > tearing hurry with which Afzal Guru was hanged, accompanied by the > flouting of all established norms by not giving his family their legal right > to > meet him before taking him to the gallows, clearly indicates that there > were > political considerations behind taking this step. More shameful is the > explanation of the Home department that the wife and family of Afzal Guru > were > intimated of the hanging by a mail sent by Speed Post and Registered Post. > Decency and humanity demanded that the Union Government give prior > intimation > to the family and an opportunity to meet him. Such a surreptitious action > of the government also deprives the family of Afzal Guru to right to seek > legal > remedy. > PUCL > also condemns the repressive stand of the Delhi police in not allowing a > group > of people who were protesting against the hanging and detaining them in > police > stations. We are equally concerned by reports that right-wing goons were > permitted by the police to use violence against the protestors. PUCL > asserts > the right of citizens to dissent and express their opposition to capital > punishment in a peaceful manner. > PUCL > reiterates its demand for the abolition of the death penalty. PUCL is of > the > view that India must not retain in its statute book something so abhorrent > to > human rights as the death penalty. More especially, when more than one > hundred > and fifty countries have banned or put a moratorium on it. PUCL feels > that as the land of Buddha and Gandhi, death penalty has no place. > PUCL feels that starting with Kasab, now with Afzal Guru, > the country is going to witness a spate of executions. We give a call to > the > nation to break this spiral of executions. > > Sd,/- Sd./- > > Prabhakar Sinha (President) V > Suresh (General Secretary) > > -- > PUCL National Office: > 270-A, Ground Floor, Patpar Ganj, Mayur Vihar-I, Delhi-110091 > Ph. 011-22750014 > Website: www.pucl.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >
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