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SRI LANKA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER A MURDER CASE

03 November 2016 :

The Colombo High Court has sentenced to death five relatives convicted of murdering an individual.
The murder has taken place on 14th March 2001 at Sangharaja Mawatha in Maligakanda Colombo. They have murdered a very close relative aged 40 years.
The judgment was delivered when the case was taken up for hearing before High Court Judge Padmini N. Ranawaka.
 
(Sources: itnnews.lk, 31/10/2016)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.