Le Sri Lanka s’apprête à pendre les personnes ayant commis un délit lié aux drogues, pour reproduire le « succès philippin »

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Le Sri Lanka s’apprête à pendre les personnes ayant commis un délit lié aux drogues, pour reproduire le « succès philippin »

7 août 2018

En une violation flagrante des droits humains, le gouvernement sri-lankais prévoit de commencer à pendre les trafiquants de drogues, dans un effort visant à émuler la guerre violente de Rodrigo Duterte contre la drogue aux Philippines. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

By Agence France-Presse


Sri Lanka announced on Wednesday, July 11, it would start hanging drug dealers, ending a near-half century moratorium on capital punishment as officials promised to "replicate the success" of the Philippines' drug war. President Maithripala Sirisena had told the cabinet he "was ready to sign the death warrants" of repeat drug offenders, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Wednesday. "From now on, we will hang drug offenders without commuting their death sentences," he said. Sri Lanka has commuted death sentences for serious crimes to life in prison since 1976, when the last execution took place. Senaratne said there were 19 drug offenders whose death sentences had been commuted to life. It was not clear if they would be hanged under the government's policy shift. But authorities say a tougher approach is needed to combat what they say is an increase in drug-related crime.