The Arab Centre for Independence of Judiciary and Legal Profession urges Mr. President Muammar Gaddafi, President of Libya, to take a prompt action in order to pardon the Egyptian citizen and to stop the implementation of the death penalty against him; Emad Abdel-Wahid is imprisoned in the Libyan prisons and he sentenced to death.
The sentence is scheduled to be executed on Emad Abdel Wahid Mohamed Ali tomorrow, Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008, at 10 am.
Worth mentioning that Imad Abdel Wahid Mohamed Ali was arrested on charges of involvement in the murder of Libyan citizen Mohammed Ramadan Albahlil with the participation of the Libyan citizen Fathi Alvittori in 1999, and he was sentenced to death, and the execution postponed twice before.
The Centre is afraid that the execution of death sentence will be applied on Imad Abdul Wahid while his Libyan partner will be pardoned, especially as this violates Article II of the mentioned Act, in which partners in the same crime benefit of the waiver if the conciliation has been done with one of the partners.
The Center addresses Mr. President Muammar Gaddafi to intervene directly in order to stop the implementation of this sentence, and it demands the Libyan leader to activate article 6 / 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states that “Any person sentenced to death has the right to seek pardon or commutation of sentence. Pardon, general amnesty or commutation of the death penalty could be granted in all cases.”
