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SRI LANKA: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH

04 October 2012 :

In Sri Lanka, Colombo high court sentenced a woman to death for the possession and distribution of illegal drugs.
High court judge Preeti Padman Surasena ordered the death sentence as the charges against the accused were proved beyond reasonable doubt.
The  woman was previously arrested by the police narcotics bureau in 2002 in  the Maligawatte area for possession of 3.5 grams of heroin.
 
(Sources: sundaytimes.lk, 04/10/2012)

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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.