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WORLD NEWS Friday 11 OctOber 2019
Super typhoon on track to drench Japan's main island

By MARI YAMAGUCHI day while high waves and
Associated Press tides may cause flooding.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is Airlines and train services
bracing for a super ty- anticipate cancellations
phoon on track to hit cen- affecting holidaymakers
tral and eastern regions traveling over the three-
over the three-day week- day weekend that includes
end, with sport events and Sports Day holiday on Mon-
domestic flights canceled day. All Nippon Airways
and sandbags given away said it is grounding all do-
to minimize potential dam- mestic flights Saturday in
age from torrential rains and out of Tokyo's Haneda
and strong winds. and Narita international air-
Typhoon Hagibis has al- ports.
ready caused cancella- Depending on the ty-
tions of two Rugby World phoon's movement, All Nip-
Cup matches that were pon Airways and Japan Air-
to be played Saturday. lines said they may cancel
Organizers canceled the flights as early as Friday.
England-France match The approaching typhoon
planned in Yokohama, is spreading fear espe-
near Tokyo, and New Zea- This Oct. 9, 2019, satellite photo taken by NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite shows typhoon Hagi- cially in Chiba, near Tokyo,
land-Italy game in Toyota, bis approaching Japan, top. which was hit by Typhoon
in central Japan. Associated Press Faxai last month and many
Organizers also called off residents are still recover-
a marathon in Sendai and navy review. kyo's southern coast. It was Agency says the typhoon ing from damage to their
other northern coastal Hagibis, which means moving north at the speed is forecast to hit ashore in homes. The typhoon tore
towns. Formula One auto speed in Filipino, had maxi- of 20 kph (12 mph) and is the Tokyo area late Satur- many electrical poles and
racing in Suzuka in central mum sustained winds of up expected to weaken over day and urged people to snapped cables, triggering
Japan may also be affect- to 270 kilometers (168 miles) cooler waters as it nears take precautions to avoid extensive outages that last-
ed. and stronger gusts at noon Japan's main island. potentially life-threatening ed for weeks, contributing
Japan's Defense Ministry Thursday near Chichi island It's the equivalent of a Cat- danger. Japan's central to heat illnesses and other
scrapped the first two days in the Pacific, about 1,000 egory 5 hurricane. Pacific coast may see tor- health problems among el-
of the annual Oct. 12-14 kilometers (620 miles) off To- The Japan Meteorological rential rains beginning Fri- derly people.q

Amnesty International urges Malaysia to end death penalty

KUALA LUMPUR, Malay- until they are brought to
sia (AP) — Amnesty Inter- court, it said. Some were
national urged Malaysia's asked to sign documents
government on Thursday to in the Malay language
keep its promise to abolish that were not translated for
the death penalty, saying them, according to the re-
unfair trials and the use of port.
harsh treatment to obtain The group said the pardon
confessions put people at process was also not trans-
risk of execution. parent, with no clear crite-
The rights group released ria and access to pro-bono
details of nearly two years legal services controlled by
of research on 150 cases as prison officials. It said half
well as interviews with pris- of the foreigners on death
oners' families, lawyers and row didn't seek pardons.
embassy officials in a report "Our research found a pat-
that it said showed the use tern of unfair trials and se-
of the death penalty was cretive hangings that itself
"fatally flawed." spoke volumes. From alle-
Prime Minister Mahathir gations of torture and other
Mohamad's government ill-treatment to an opaque
promised shortly after tak- pardons process, it's clear
ing power in May 2018 to Shamini Darshni Kalimuthu, Executive Director of Amnesty International Malaysia, seeks during a the death penalty is a stain
scrap capital punishment, press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. on Malaysia's criminal jus-
which mandates hanging Associated Press tice system," Amnesty Ma-
as punishment for a wide laysia director Sharmini
range of crimes including will instead remove man- victed of drug offenses, in- man detained in 2005 for Darshni Kaliemuthu said.
murder, drug trafficking, datory death penalties for cluding 568 foreigners from possessing drugs and later The group said its requests
treason, kidnapping and some offenses and give 43 countries and many sentenced to death had to meet Malaysian authori-
acts of terror. courts discretion in impos- poor members of ethnic mi- his finger broken by police, ties including the police
But the government back- ing the sentence. norities. It said some prison- who also threatened to and officials in the attor-
tracked after public objec- The report said 73% of the ers were tortured and beat- beat up his girlfriend, it said. ney-general's office for
tion. Parliament, which re- 1,281 people on death row en to make them confess. Those who are poor often more details were rejected
sumed meeting this week, as of February were con- In one case, a Malaysian go without legal assistance or unanswered.q