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CPJP STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE EXECUTION OF NAGAENTHRAN K DHARMALINGHAM IN SINGAPORE ON 27 APRIL 2022 

Capital Punishment Justice Project, Eleos Justice, CrimeInfo and Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network submission to the Joint Committee on Treaties concerning Australia’s Reciprocal Access Agreement with Japan 

Chris Barrett, ‘Man with low IQ loses last appeal against death sentence’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29/03/2022 

Lulu Banay, Pearls and Irritations: John Menadue’s Public Policy Journal, Singapore to execute intellectually disabled and mentally ill man 
Chris Hayes MP, Parliamentary Representation Valedictory, House of Representatives 2/12/2021 – special mention of Capital Punishment Justice Project’s work
Matthew Goldberg, Director of Capital Punishment Justice Project, appearing at the UN’s 49th Session on the abolition of the death penalty in Papua New Guinea

A street mural in Koki, Port Moresby, PNG (Christopher John SSF/Flickr), @SakaiMoses2

Response to the OHCHR call for inputs about the death penalty, submitted by Advocates for Human Rights, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Capital Punishment Justice Project, Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran and Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center

Risks to Life Posed by Information Sharing, CPJP
‘Anti-Death Penalty Advocacy in the MENA Region’, Eleos Justice Blog, 29 September 2021
‘On Guard’, UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute 

CPJP Statement on US Federal Executions

Mai Sato and Simone Abel, ‘Japan-Australia Pact Highlights Need to Move Away Creatively from Death Penalty’, The Conversation, 20 November 2020
‘Capital Punishment Justice Project November Newsletter’

‘Death Penalty Litigators’, Melbourne University Law School Newsletter, 29 October 2020
Capital Punishment Justice Project and Eleos Justice submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Bill 2020

Paul Gregoire, ‘Australia Opposes the Death Penalty, Which Is Why We Fund Those Facing It’, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, 10 September 2020

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