V L Srinivasan
Manama (Bahrain), April 29:
While the first known execution was carried out in mid 1990s, five persons have been executed during the last decade and a half in Bahrain. While all the five cases related to different incidents and the convicts were executed separately, this is the first time that four persons have been sentenced to death for involvement in a single crime in March this year.
Jasmine Anwar Hussain and Mohammed Hilaluddin were executed in 2006, whereas Mizan Noor Al Rahman
Ayoub Mia was executed in 2008 and the last one Jassim Abdulmanan was executed in July 2010. Incidentally, the last four convicts were Bangladeshi nationals.
Besides these five, another Bangladeshi national Russel Mezan had his death sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court of Bahrain at the end of last year. His has appealed to the Court of Cassation, the highest court in the Kingdom, where his appeal is pending, according to a report of the Amnesty International on death sentences and executions in 2010.
Death penalty is practiced in all six oil-rich Gulf countries- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. While five of the GCC member states execute convicts either through hanging or by firing squad, only Saudi Arabia follows the Islamic practices of beheading and stoning.
A report by Human Rights Watch highlighted that for many years, Bahrain observed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty. However, with three executions in 2006, one last year, Bahrain appears to be moving against the international trend away from capital punishment.
Psychologist and woman activist Dr Fakhriya Dairi supported death penalty in serious crimes including the rape of girls. “Executing criminals could be cruel, but rapists destroying the future of their female victims is cruel. Rape is a tragedy against all women, but it is worse here as female rape victims are blacklisted in Arab societies with no hope of getting married,” she said.
Independent MP Jassim Al Saidi welcomed the verdict and called for the capital punishment for the Opposition leaders who allegedly promoted unrest in Bahrain. He said that the public are happy to bring justice to the families of the two policemen.
“I hail the transparency of Information Affairs Authority for revealing the horrible crime committed by those terrorists, after seeing the confessions of the convicts we- public- are convinced that the National Safety Lower Court took the right decision,” he said.
Manama (Bahrain), April 29:
While the first known execution was carried out in mid 1990s, five persons have been executed during the last decade and a half in Bahrain. While all the five cases related to different incidents and the convicts were executed separately, this is the first time that four persons have been sentenced to death for involvement in a single crime in March this year.
Jasmine Anwar Hussain and Mohammed Hilaluddin were executed in 2006, whereas Mizan Noor Al Rahman
Ayoub Mia was executed in 2008 and the last one Jassim Abdulmanan was executed in July 2010. Incidentally, the last four convicts were Bangladeshi nationals.
Besides these five, another Bangladeshi national Russel Mezan had his death sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court of Bahrain at the end of last year. His has appealed to the Court of Cassation, the highest court in the Kingdom, where his appeal is pending, according to a report of the Amnesty International on death sentences and executions in 2010.
Death penalty is practiced in all six oil-rich Gulf countries- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. While five of the GCC member states execute convicts either through hanging or by firing squad, only Saudi Arabia follows the Islamic practices of beheading and stoning.
A report by Human Rights Watch highlighted that for many years, Bahrain observed a de facto moratorium on the death penalty. However, with three executions in 2006, one last year, Bahrain appears to be moving against the international trend away from capital punishment.
Psychologist and woman activist Dr Fakhriya Dairi supported death penalty in serious crimes including the rape of girls. “Executing criminals could be cruel, but rapists destroying the future of their female victims is cruel. Rape is a tragedy against all women, but it is worse here as female rape victims are blacklisted in Arab societies with no hope of getting married,” she said.
Independent MP Jassim Al Saidi welcomed the verdict and called for the capital punishment for the Opposition leaders who allegedly promoted unrest in Bahrain. He said that the public are happy to bring justice to the families of the two policemen.
“I hail the transparency of Information Affairs Authority for revealing the horrible crime committed by those terrorists, after seeing the confessions of the convicts we- public- are convinced that the National Safety Lower Court took the right decision,” he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment