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PAKISTAN COURT REJECTS INDIAN'S DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL

Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Indian man Sarabjit Singh to have his 1991 death sentence for spying and terrorism in Mumbai overturned.

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Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Indian man Sarabjit Singh to have his 1991 death sentence for spying and terrorism in Mumbai overturned. The government suspended his death sentence in May 2008 after his family visited Pakistan and appealed for a pardon. But a three-member bench upheld the sentence, saying they had found no reason to reconsider the original ruling.
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  • (Sources: International The News, 24/06/2009)