Eshan Nayeck
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Eshan "Alexandré" Nayeck (died 10 October 1987) was a
On 23 July 1983, 45-year-old Abdool Rashid Atchia was stabbed and killed in the central marketplace of
assize
court convicted him and sentenced him to death.
Nayeck appealed to the government for clemency, but it was refused and
strangulation
. He was the second person executed by Mauritius since its 1968 independence.
The death penalty was abolished in Mauritius in 1995 by the government of the newly elected Navin Ramgoolam.
References
- Deepa Bhookun, "Pour ou contre la peine capitale?", L'express, no. 15707, 2006-02-22[dead link]
- ^ "POL1000011988ENGLISH.pdf" (PDF). Amnesty.
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