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SRI LANKA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POSSESSING HEROIN

31 July 2018 :

Two men who were found guilty of keeping 2.8 grams of heroin in their possession were sentenced to death by Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga.
The convicted are Wewalage Ukum Prasanna and Amith Unagiliya Prasanna alias ‘Seeni baba’ who are residents of Grandpass, Colombo.
The suspects were arrested in January 2013.

 
(Sources: dailymirror.lk, 30/07/2018)

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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.