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| India-Pakistan |
| Military court sentences |
| 2016-05-12 |
| [DAWN] THREE more individuals sentenced to death by military courts have had their sentences stayed by the Supreme Court while the appeals are to be heard. The convicts and their families have raised a disturbingly familiar set of objections: the accused were not allowed to pick their own lawyers at the trial stage; the defence was not allowed access to the state’s evidence against them; and the families only learned of the sentences via blurbs. The latest appeals add to the dozen cases already before the Supreme Court, and for now, there is no indication which way the court is leaning -- the stay of execution does not suggest innocence in the eyes of the court, merely that the sentence is irreversible and therefore the appeals process must be completed first. |
| Posted by:Fred |