Friday, 05 March 2010 16:23
Getting Death Penalty abolished from the face of the earth is a long haul. During this time, while we continue with our efforts to get them free from death row, we should also devise and adopt methods in order to secure the Rights of the prisoners who are facing death Penalty.
In India while we are campaigning for abolishing of Death Penalty, we have also adopted certain methods in order to ensure that we are able to get the rights of such prisoners protected in the prisons, while they are waiting for the decisions on their mercy petitions pending before the President of India. By using these methods, I have been able to lessen the trauma of Death Penalty prisoners. I am sharing my personal experience with you, hoping that in some part of the world acting upon my experience, you might be able to make your contribution, which will be a rewarding experience for you and would work as a morale booster in your long fight towards a Death Penalty free world.
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Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:49
- To, The Hon’ble President of India
- The Hon’ble Home Minister of India.
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to DEATH by the designated court of Delhi on 25th Aug 2001 and is at present 46 years. After completing his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Guru Nanak engineering College Ludhiana, in 1990, Bhullar started teaching in the same college and taught for more than a year. He belonged to a well settled educated family and his father was Section Officer in Punjab Audit Department and his mother was working as Supervisor in Rural Development Department of Punjab.
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HC directs judges to check illegal detention
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 10:34
Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, October 12 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the district and sessions judges of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to carry out surprise checks of police lock-ups to detect illegal detention. The court has even asked the registrar-general to submit a report on the visits.
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Punjab gets rap for ‘ignoring’ juvenile justice
Sunday, 11 October 2009 00:22
A seminar was organised by the Monitoring Committee on Juvenile Justice of the High Court. Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur in the seminar said the Punjab government has not met several statutory requirements of the Act. “A basic body like the child welfare committee is missing from most districts, no inspection committee has been set up to monitor the working of children’s homes and there is no shelter home in the state,” he said.
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Friday, 21 August 2009 16:58
An International body World Coalition Against Death Penalty (WCADP), which works for the abolition of Death Penalty around the world held its General Assembly in Rome, Italy on 13th June 2009. The World Coalition comprises of 88 International NGO’s , Bar Assoc, Trade Unions local governments and Non-governmental organizations.
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Saturday, 22 August 2009 14:25
Lawyers For Human Rights International shows concerns at the anti democratic attitude of the civil servant of India, namely Mrs. Pramilla Srivastava, who while representing the country in the meeting of United Nations Human Rights Council’s 11th session at Geneva, Switzerland , between 2-19 June 2009 had threatened Dr. Harshinder Kaur, who had gone over there to attend the session on the invitation of an NGO, named Interfaith International.
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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:14
The Indian Constitution protects the right to life enshrined in Article 21, but for long the death penalty is being awarded by the Law courts unaware of the trauma and mental torture every awardee undergoes till he is executed.
Even Section 302 of Indian Penal Code provides for punishment upto death to the convict. In 1999 the Union government proposed for extending the death penalty for the crime of rape--- a proposal that drew country wide criticism.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2003 00:00
Torture and custodial violence continue to be regularly reported in Punjab, despite the end of the militancy period in the state in the mid-1990s.
One reason for the continuation of serious human rights violations after the militancy period is that a decade of armed insurgency and police
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Friday, 23 October 2009 11:37
 10th of October was World day Against Death Penalty and Lawyers For Human Rights International after its election on the steering committee of World Coalition Against death Penalty organized a seminar and signature campaign for release of some of the worst victims of death Penalty. In the seminar Justice K.S Grewal, who recently retired from Punjab and Haryana High court and Dr. Usha Ramanathan an anti death penalty activist told in detail about the ill effects of the Death Penalty and also about its abuse worldwide. Navkiran Singh, Advocate, who is also the General Secretary of LFHRI, informed the gathering as to how LFHRI and he himself have worked since last 3 years to ensure justice to the victims of Death Penalty.
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 21:51
To
The President of India,
Rashtrapati Bhawan,
New Delhi.
Subject: Seeking clemency for
1.Dharam Pal and
2.(i)Piara Singh.
(ii)Sarabjit Singh.
(iii)Satnam Singh.
(iv)Gurdev Singh.
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Monday, 21 September 2009 20:46
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who was deported from Germany on 19th Jan 1995, is languishing in Tihar Jail of Delhi since he was awarded death sentence on 25th Aug 2001. His case is a classic example of denial of Justice as he has been convicted just on the basis of his extra judicial confession, allegedly suffered by him under force and threat of the police, while he was in police custody. Even though Bhullar recanted from his so called extra judicial confession, however without any corroborative evidence he was convicted by the TADA court. In the Supreme Court of India, while hearing the appeal, 1 of the 3 judges who were hearing the appeal acquitted him of the charges, while the other 2 upheld the conviction.
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Friday, 11 September 2009 18:25
Its travesty of justice that the 6 Sikhs, who have been accused of killing Swami Ramanand in Vienna, Austria are till date without effective defense. Another aspect which is also very alarming that the Vienna police has failed to identify the people who made the murderous assault on these youth and is only trying to charge these 6 people and not anyone from the side of the followers of Swami Ramanand.
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Friday, 20 August 2004 10:11
We, the citizens of the Republic of India, express our deep concern and sorrow at the confirmation of capital punishment upon Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and subsequent dismissal of his review petition by the Supreme Court vide the judgment dated 22.3.2002 and 19.12.2002, by a three judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising, Mr.Justice M.B.Shah, Mr.Justice B.N. Aggarwal and Justice Arijit Pasayat in a case under
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Saturday, 22 August 2009 15:49
A public Interest litigation is filed by Lawyers For Human Rights International in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the running of parallel courts by caste based Khap Panchayats of Haryana State, who are interfaring into the personal lives of the people of Haryana State. the recent incident in which Mr. Ved Pal of Village- Matour in Kaithal District in Haryana State was lynched by the residents of village-Singhwal, where his wife Sonia was living has shook the conscious of right thinking people.
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Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:00
Lawyers For Human Rights International (LFHRI) moves NHRC for whereabouts of illigally detained persons. Concerned at the picking up of over 150 persons by the Punjab and the Chandigarh police for questioning in the wake of the arrest of Jagtar Singh Hawara,
Lawyers for Human Rights International (LFHRI), today moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking status report about their whereabouts and protection of their lives and liberties.These persons were forcibly and illegally picked up by the police as per the information received by LFHRI. These persons had been picked up for interrogation without the knowledge of their relatives and they could be eliminated.
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Friday, 14 April 2006 00:00
A seminar on “Challenges before human rights defenders” was organized by Lawyers for Human Rights International (LFHRI) today at English auditorium, Panjab university here, with an endeavour to highlight the challenges before a human rights activist,the members of LFHRI today honoured Teesta Setalvad at the function.
Daughter of an advocate, Teesta is a graduate in history and a post graduate in mass communication. Married to a journalist, Javed khan, Teesta is the co-editor of Mumbai based journal “communalism combat”.
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4th World Congress against Death Penalty was held in Geneva from 24th to 26th Feb 2010.Lawyers For Human Rights International sent its delegation , which comprised of Navkiran Singh, Advocate its General Secretary , T.S. Sudan Advocate representing Chandigarh unit and a Law student of UILS Panjab University namely Navratan Singh participated in the poster competition.
