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US-based Sikh group seeks UN intervention for Bhullar
Saturday April 27, 2013 11:11:05 PM,
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New Delhi:
A Swiss NGO and a US-based Sikh group have sought UN intervention
to "save" Devenderpal Singh Bhullar, whose petition seeking
commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment was
rejected by the Indian Supreme Court earlier this month.
A Swiss NGO, Movement Against Atrocities and Repression (MAAR),
and Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) have filed an appeal with Special
Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions,
Christof Heyns on April 25.
A group of Sikhs also held a "Justice Rally" before the UN office
in Geneva seeking intervention for the suspension of Bhullar's
death sentence, said a statement Saturday.
Bhullar was given capital punishment for the Sep 10, 1993, blast
at the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) office in New Delhi that left
nine people dead and 17 injured.
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