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Lankan apex court stays Sirisena’s execution order against drug convicts

Press Trust of india by Press Trust of india
July 6, 2019
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Colombo, Jul 5:  Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Friday stayed until October 30 the execution order passed by President Maithripala Sirisena against four drug convicts, ending a four-decade-long moratorium on the capital punishment in the country.

Sirisena last month signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts.

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The apex court’s order came on a fundamental rights petition filed by one of the convicts against the presidential order.

M A Sumanthiran, a lawyer, had filed the case, claiming that Sirisena’s decision impinges on the rights of one of the drug convicts.

“The case argument was that hanging would be a cruel and degrading treatment,” he said.

There are 11 more fundamental rights petitions filed in various courts against the death sentence.

Meanwhile, Chief of the Prisons Department H M T Tennakoon, earlier in the day informed the Court of Appeal that they are yet to receive details of the time, date and place of the executions.

He was appearing in the court on a petition filed by one Malinda Seneviratne against the execution order.

The court has scheduled July 17 as the next date to decide whether the petition be rejected based on the preliminary objections raised against the plea.

However, Tennakoon also informed the court that it will not execute anyone until the next hearing on the petition, which was filed on June 28 seeking an interim order preventing the implementation of the death sentence.

Sirisena drew flak from his countrymen as well as the international community since he passed the order despite Sri Lanka having become a party to the UN moratorium on death penalty and voting in favour of the moratorium just six months back.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he and his United National Party (UNP) are opposed to the capital punishment.

The British government in a statement condemned the move, saying the decision would have implications on many areas including counter-terrorism cooperation.

Sirisena accused the European Union of challenging Sri Lanka’s sovereignty by threatening with tariffs if capital punishment is re-introduced in the country after 43 years.

He also claimed to have turned down a telephonic call by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to reconsider his decision to reintroduce death penalty.

 

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