Foreign human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has released a statement criticising the government’s declaration that capital punishment will be implemented in the Maldives.
At a news conference on Wednesday, Ali Ihsan, the homeland security secretary, declared that the present government will implement and accept the death penalty.
Human Rights Watch expressed worry over the ruling in a statement released Friday night, urging President Dr. Mohamed Muizz to revoke the decision to execute people.
“President Mohamed Muizzu should immediately withdraw his government’s plan to reinstate the death penalty. Our criminal justice system must be consistent with the world’s efforts to end this inhuman act,” Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at the organisation, said in a statement.
Despite the Maldives’ legalisation of the death sentence, foreign organisations have opposed it even after former administrations declared their intention to carry it out.
Since the Green Constitution was adopted a few years ago, the Maldives has seen a sharp rise in the crime of culpable homicide that does not qualify as murder. The number of vile and barbaric methods used to conduct these kinds of crimes has increased.
The administration of former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom also chose to carry out capital punishment. However, it encountered opposition from a number of international sources that time as well.
