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Serial killer Sobhraj looks for escape clause
Indonesia News.Net
Monday 1st December, 2008
Serial killer, Charles Sobhraj, who is serving a life sentence in Nepal for the 1975 murder of an American tourist, has now moved the UN for justice, filing a complaint against the Nepalese government.
This is not the 64-year-old celebrated international criminal's first complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Nepal is among the 162 states that are party to the UN pact and Sobhraj is alleging that the country has been violating his rights since 2004, when it pronounced him guilty of the murder of an American tourist and sent him behind bars for 20 years.
In 2004, he was found guilty of the murder of Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975.
Sobhraj, also known as 'the Bikini Killer', says he is caught between a tardy judicial system that has not been able to pronounce a final verdict on him even after four years and a prison system that treats him as highly dangerous and withholds the privileges allowed to other inmates.
Sobhraj's Paris-based French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre filed a complaint with the UN committee last week, saying her client is being held prisoner in Kathmandu without evidence while the judicial authorities have been dawdling on his appeal for four years.
The appeal to the UN rights body comes after two earlier ones were rejected.
In her current complaint, the French lawyer has said that since the case has far exceeded a reasonable deadline, it ought to be examined by the UN panel.
The lawyer says that Nepal's Supreme Court proceedings are erratic, absurd, endlessly and indefinitely postponed, and without any determined timeframe.
There have been 38 hearings on the appeal without the judges delivering the final verdict.
Once, she says, the hearing was postponed because one of the judges was absent due to his daughter's wedding.
The lawyer also says in her complaint that police have not been able to produce the original documents which they say prove that Sobhraj had come to Nepal in 1975.
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Anonymous
12-01-08, 05:54 AM |
Serial killer Sobhraj looks for escape clause
oowww booo hoo arn’t judges aloud to have families anymore?
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Rajesh NEUPANE
12-04-08, 07:29 AM |
Pass on gaollot the devil of the centuary
Why Nepalese govt. is not hanging this bastard? Hang him on Gallows as soon as possible. If escapes from the prison where he is detained at present, which is not impossible in Nepal. He will kill all of the people who acted against him.
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;) Midnight
12-01-08, 09:30 AM |
He doesn’t sound like this is a problem. The problem lies herein: you are all pains in my butt. Honey I had a really bad headache. you consume more time than necessary just because it draws me away. if he gets any ore foreward you will have to let me go and you know it. and he’s a gentleman to me so give it up.
another fine example of our wonderful, wonderful judicial system at it’s finest no doubt. kinda reminds me of a certain city officer in e’ville. Restraining Order petition again? OH YEAH in both places. Why?
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Shwe Moe
12-01-08, 03:47 PM |
Serial killer Sobhraj looks for escape clause
Thought this criminal was RIP; well Kathmandu! what are you waiting for hang the bastard. There are no superlatives for this calculating killer.
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