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India court suspends death sentences for Delhi gang-rape
[Al Ahram] India's top court Monday suspended the death sentences of two men convicted of the deadly gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, an attack that triggered international outrage. The Supreme Court temporarily stayed the sentences passed on gym instructor Vinay Sharma and bus cleaner Akshay Singh for the 2012 attack while their appeals were examined, a lawyer said. "The sentence was stayed by the court after we filed the special leave petition," A.P. Singh, who represents the two men, told AFP. "We want a full bench to hear this appeal. The claims against my clients are totally false, they have been wrongly accused," he said. "They were not even in Delhi when this crime was supposed to have happened." Four men were convicted and sentenced to death last year for raping the 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in the capital in December 2012, a crime that unleashed weeks of angry protests over India's treatment of women. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-15 |
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