Celebrating Execution is Uncivilized and Against Humanity: NCHRO New Delhi 20 March 2020: National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations(NCHRO) has condemned in no uncertain terms the celebration of the hanging of the four accused in…
Hanging of Afzal Guru was in violation of…
29 February 2014 Amnesty International, in its report on Death Sentences and Executions in 2013 published this week, has condemned India for defying international standards for Death Sentences and Executions while executing Death Sentence of…
Abolish capital punishment: Rights activists
Members of human rights organisations in the City on Saturday condemned the continuation of the colonial tradition of awarding capital punishment to those convicted of murder in the country.At a small convention on capital punishment,…
NCHRO: Afzal Guru was Not Given Fair Trial…
[caption id="attachment_6483" align="alignright" width="448"]Afsel Guru Execution: Protest against Capital Punishment Delhi [/caption] National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) demands the government of India to abolish the death punishment, as it against human rights. Article 5…
Campaign for Prof. Bhullar at PU Chandigarh on…
To promote the cause of seeking clemency for the victims of Death Penalty the Sikh Students Federation shall conduct a signature campaign at Punjab University Chandigarh on 4th of March, 2010. In a press statement…
Musings on the Death Sentence
In 1994 Narayan Chetnam Choudhary committed the crime of murdering five women, one of whom was pregnant and two were children with a tender age of two and a half and one and a half…
No to death sentences under POTA : Amnesty
The death sentence handed down to three individuals for their role in the 2003 twin car bomb attacks at Mumbai, under an anti-terror legislation no longer in force, amounts to continuing the cycle of violence,…
Karnataka terror laws: Death penalty added
Bangalore: The BJP government has been riding on terror as its election plank and now it's tightened the screws on terror suspects, a year after the serial blasts in Bangalore. The state legislature on Wednesday…
Death clock clicking faster for convicts
Aasim Khan, CNN-IBN , February 17, 2007 New Delhi: In the last one week five people have been sentenced to death. Are the verdicts part of a growing trend?A number of death warrants have been…