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- From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
- Subject: news from trinadad & tobago: resumption of executions
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:13:06 GMT
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- Topic 328 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Executions
- hrcoord reg.carib 11:48 am Nov 15, 1992
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- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Executions
-
- /* Written 10:52 pm Nov 14, 1992 by aiusala@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
- Amnesty International
- International Secretariat
- 1 Easton Street
- London WC1X 8DJ
- United Kingdom
-
- 9 November 1992
-
- TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNS RESUMPTION OF EXECUTIONS
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- Three men, Gayman Jurisingh, Peter Matthews and Faizal Mohammed, are scheduled
- to be executed in the early morning of Tuesday 10 November 1992. They have
- been on death row since June 1982, February 1984 and February 1982
- respectively.
-
- "We strongly condemn this attempt to resume executions in Trinidad and
- Tobago after 13 years," said Amnesty International. "We are also concerned
- that the three men may have not been informed of their right to petition the
- United Nations Human Rights Committee".
-
- "Furthermore, we have serious concerns that international standards
- requiring fair trial within a reasonable time were not respected in the case
- of Peter Matthews. Although sentenced in February 1984, he was reportedly
- charged in August 1978, which would indicate a delay of nearly six years in
- the proceedings".
-
- As Trinidad and Tobago is a party to the International Covenant on Civil
- and Political Rights and its Optional Protocol, prisoners can submit their
- cases to the United Nations Human Rights Committee for their consideration.
- Although prisoners in Trinidad and Tobago have done this in the past, none of
- the three men due to be executed have done so.
-
- In 1990 a Commission of Inquiry into Capital Punishment submitted a
- report to President Noor Hassanali which recommended among other things that
- prisoners sentenced to death over 10 years ago should have their sentences
- commuted to life imprisonment. "It is very disappointing that the government
- has decided to execute these men, is spite of this recommendation", said
- Amnesty International.
-
- These recommendations were reportedly accepted by both the government
- then in power and the new government, elected in December 1992.
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