India hangs only man sentenced in '93 Mumbai blasts - The Spokesman Review
NEW DELHI – Ignoring pleas and petitions by civil society groups, India on Thursday hanged an accountant convicted of supporting the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people in the country’s worst terrorist attack. The police barred media from publishing images of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s funeral, apparently fearing …. NEW DELHI – Ignoring pleas and petitions by civil society groups, India on Thursday hanged an accountant convicted of supporting the 1993... The police barred media from publishing images of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s funeral, apparently fearing a backlash against the execution that many said was driven by politics. Executions are rare in India, and in the last decade only two others have taken place, both of terror convicts like Memon. Memon was executed on his 53rd birthday at the prison in western India where he had been incarcerated since 1994. His family took his body to Mumbai from Nagpur hours later, and thousands of people gathered outside the cemetery for the funeral. Prominent citizens, including retired Supreme Court judges, had urged President Pranab Mukerjee to commute Memon’s sentence to life in prison. Source: www.spokesman.com
