{greenyouth} Fwd: PWTN - Urgent appeal - SIGN THE SAVE AFZAL PETITION

Ajay Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:10:28 -0700

Dear Colleagues,

Here is an important opportunity for all of you to join in this urgent petition to save the life of AFZAL . Please do so and also pass this on to all you know asking them in turn to also pass it on so that through your own initiative many other signatures are obtained. In the sate offices, please do also ensure that all our staff who are convinced about abolishing death penalty also sign this petition and if possible try to go on line during our EU training programs and ensure that more people sing this petition who are participants to our trainings and who are concerned. Please do not forget the urgency and hence do this immediately.

Henri

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From: Criminal Justice Initiative <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Date: 14-Oct-2006 13:55
Subject: URGENT: SIGN THE SAVE AFZAL PETITION
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi All,

Mohammed Afzal Guru, 35, hailing from North Kashmir has been sentenced to death by hanging for conspiring to attack the Indian Parliament on December 13, 2001. He is presently lodged at Tihar Jail and awaits execution on October 20, 2006. The Supreme Court has noted that there is no direct evidence of his involvement or of him belonging to any terrorist outfit. He has been convicted and sentenced to death purely on the basis of circumstantial evidence.

A fortnight is too short a time for the President to consider the Clemency plea. So for the time being, it is required that the President put a stay on the execution of death penalty, to give Mohammed Afzal a fair chance.

Judicial error cannot be ruled out just the same way as execution cannot be reversed. It is high time that the legal system focuses on the abolition of the death penalty and recognizes the basic right to life of every individual.

Capital Punishment defers all theories of punishment, in no way being deterrent and must be abolished from our legal system.

We strongly condemn the death penalty issued to Mohammed Afzal for his role in the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. We appeal to the President to issue pardon and commute the death penalty into life imprisonment.

To extend our full support towards the cause please sign the petition by clicking on the link given below and send it across to every possible individual ASAP since the execution is on Friday, October 20, 2006.

http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveAfzl/petition.html

PLEASE HELP US IN THIS CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND HUMANITY.

Thanking you for your support,

Criminal Justice Initiative
4th floor, CVOD Jain High School,
84, Samuel Street,
Pala Gali,
Dongri
Mumbai - 400009
Tel : +91-22-23439651/23436692
Fax: +91-22-23433698
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
website : hrln.org

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