Maldives urged to halt execution by EU, UN rights experts
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has also opposed Humam’s execution without the consent of the victim’s family. “No Islamic state has the right to carry out qisas except as provided in Islam,” he declared in a tweet.
02 Jul 2016, 9:00 AM
Four UN human rights experts, the European Union, and Amnesty International have called on the government to halt the planned execution of a 22-year-old death row inmate.
“The implementation of a death sentence following judicial procedures which do not respect the most stringent guarantees of fair trial and due process is unlawful and tantamount to an arbitrary execution,” UN special rapporteurs on arbitrary detention, summary executions, torture, and independence of the judiciary said in a statement yesterday.
If the government enforces the death sentence, Humam would become the first Maldivian to be executed by the state since 1953.
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