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YEMEN: 15 CHILD OFFENDERS EXECUTED IN FIVE YEARS

March 4, 2013: Yemen has executed at least 15 young male and female offenders, all aged under 18 when they committed the offences, in the last five years, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, urging the government to halt such executions.
The New York-based group also called on President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to reverse the execution orders of three juveniles on death row, whose appeals have been exhausted.
"Sending child offenders before firing squads is hardly the way for Yemen to show that it respects human rights," said Priyanka Motaparthy, children's rights researcher at HRW.
In a 30-page report, HRW cited the case of Hind al-Barti, executed by a government firing squad in Sanaa on murder charges. The group said the young woman's birth certificate showed she was 15 at the time of the alleged murder.
Barti told HRW in March 2012 that she had made a false confession after police officers beat her and threatened her with rape. Government authorities only gave her family a few hours' notice before her execution.
"There is strong evidence that Hind al-Barti was just a girl when she was accused of murder, yet she was sentenced - and received - the ultimate punishment," said Motaparthy.
"The Yemeni government should have reduced her sentence if there was any reason to believe she was under 18 at the time of the crime."
HRW said several other juvenile offenders it interviewed said they had faced threats, physical abuse and torture in custody, which they said led them to make false confessions.
Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashhour said Yemeni law prohibited the execution of offenders under the age of 18, but that people often lacked birth certificates to prove their age.
"Problems happen during procedures, during trials, where they treat the young offender as a fully responsible adult," Mashhour told Reuters, when asked about the HRW report.
"When rulings are issued and we, as Ministry of Human Rights, intervene, the judiciary consider our action as interference by the executive branch in their work."
Hadi, who took office a year ago after popular protests forced former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit, is trying to reassert government authority in a nation that was lawless, chaotic and impoverished even before the political upheaval.
An official of a Yemeni group, the Seyaj Organisation for Childhood Protection, said it had managed to get the execution of an alleged child offender halted on February 27 at the last minute after contacting Hadi. The juvenile, Mohammed Abdulkarim Hazaa, was not among the three named by HRW as on death row. (Sources: Reuters, 04/03/2013)

INDONESIA RESUMES EXECUTIONS AFTER HIATUS
CHINA: ALLY OF DISGRACED BO SENTENCED ON GRAFT CHARGES
SRI LANKA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 1999 MURDER
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
TAIWAN: PATIENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FATAL HOSPITAL FIRE
QATAR: DRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
SAUDI ARABIA: EIGHT PEOPLE EXECUTED THE SAME DAY
UAE: BRITON AND SYRIAN ON DEATH ROW ESCAPE EXECUTION AS SENTENCE COMMUTED
ALGERIA: EX-POLICE CHIEF SENTENCED TO DEATH
LIBYA: TOBRUK BANK ROBBERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH
PAKISTAN: MILITARY OFFICIAL STONED TO DEATH
SAUDI ARABIA: PHILIPPINES RACES TO RAISE MONEY TO SAVE MURDER CONVICT ON DEATH ROW
ALGERIA: COURT SENTENCES 14 AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDIS RETHINKING METHOD OF EXECUTION
YEMEN: MINOR PUT TO DEATH FOR MURDER
EGYPT: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES IN FOOTBALL RIOT
MARYLAND (USA): HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY REPEAL BILL
INDIA: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPIST
SAUDI ARABIA: KILLER SAVED FROM GALLOWS FOR DH64.5 MILLION
TANZANIA: SINGIDA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
OHIO (USA): FREDERICK TREESH EXECUTED
MARYLAND (USA): SENATE PASSES DEATH PENALTY REPEAL BILL
PAKISTAN: 52 DEATH SENTENCES FOR 52 LIVES LOST
PAKISTAN: SC REVOKES DEATH SENTENCE IN MUSHARRAF ATTACK CASE
IRAN: FOUR AFGHAN PRISONERS HANGED
SAUDI ARABIA: 7 SAUDIS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY CRUCIFIXION, FIRING SQUAD APPEAL FOR HELP TO STOP EXECUTIONS
INDIA: YOUTH GETS DEATH FOR RAPING & KILLING MINOR
IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED PUBLICLY
SOMALIA: ROGUE SERVICEMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND
ZAMBIA: KILLER MOM TO HANG

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