“India on Saturday hanged a Kashmiri man convicted of facilitating an armed attack on the nation’s parliament in 2001, a controversial decision by the beleaguered national government in what is possibly a difficult election year. Afzal Guru, who was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in 2005, was hanged at 8 a.m. Saturday in New Delhi’s high-security Tihar jail, according to India’s home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. “
Source: India hangs man for his role in 2001 parliament attack – The Washington Post
