Turkey responded to the head of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker’s recent article published in a German weekly considering Turkey’s re-installation of the death penalty as a red line in Turkey’s bid to join the EU bloc.“No one can make threatening statements on Turkey’s sovereign rights,” Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said.The EU
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NORTH KOREA carries out public executions on river banks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued on Wednesday said.The report, by a Seoul-based non-government group, said18
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No payment ruling suggests children can consent to their abuse.Sexually exploited children are being refused compensation by a government-funded agency on the grounds they ‘consented’ to their abuse, a charity coalition has found.The coalition’s findings show that child sexual abuse victims18
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Gopalkrishna GandhiOpposition parties’ vice presidential candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi responds to Shiv Sena’s allegation that he had opposed 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s death sentence.Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who filed his nomination on Tuesday as the vice presidential candidate of 18
Iran Human Rights (JULY 18 2017): Three more executions reported in Urmia's central prison for drug related charges. Iran Human Rights had reported on the executions of two prisoners by the names of Mashallah Siyadnavin and Mohammad Reza Sadeghi According to a report by the human rights Leggi17
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Ronald PhillipsThe death penalty is in decline. In each of the past 7 years, the United States has seen the number of executions fall or remain flat. This shift is part of an overall trend that, since the turn of the century, has seen the death penalty dwindle nationwide, although
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A total of 18 people convicted in drug-related cases have been executed under Jokowi's administration, despite international protest. However, the executions apparently have not deterred traffickers from operating in Indonesia.Serang, Banten/Jakarta -- Two months of careful detective work by
Prosecutors love jailhouse informants who can provide damning testimony that a cellmate privately confessed to a crime. Jailhouse informants, in turn, love the perks they get in exchange for snitching, like shortened sentences, immunity from prosecution or a wad of cash.As you might imagine17
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Lindsay Sandiford, Kerobokan prison, BaliA British grandmother on Death Row for drug-smuggling faces losing her last chance to escape the firing squad after thousands of pounds to fund a final appeal went missing.Well-wishers and church groups raised £40,000 to help Lindsay Sandiford, 61, appeal
President Tayyip ErdoganANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday defiantly stepped up his attacks on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passed it.At the opening ceremony of a memorial dedicated to15
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Scharlette HoldmanScharlette Holdman, pioneering foe of the death penalty, dies at 70.Scharlette Holdman, whose pioneering work with defense lawyers contributed to the decline of the death penalty nationwide, and whose clients included Ted Kaczynski, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed14
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Remembering the young women killed and tortured in so-called honour-based violence.This year 14 July marks the third National Day of Memory for ‘Britain’s Lost Women’ – the victims of honour-based violence.This date was chosen to to be a day of remembrance because 14 July was the birthday of19
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Rodrigo Duterte (left) and Joko "Jokowi" WidodoPresident Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and President Joko Widodo of Indonesia employ very different political styles. While Duterte is known abroad for his brazenly outspoken, at times vulgar rhetoric, Jokowi is known for being soft-spoken and18
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Senior Supreme Court lawyer Pavani Parameswara Rao on Monday asserted that there can be no imminent execution of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav as the matter is pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)."They (Pakistan) cannot execute Jadhav as of now, because they18
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Out of 245 MPs present in the 290-seat parliament 182 voted in favor of the bill.It will become a law after being thoroughly studied by the parliament’s Judicial Committee and confirmation by the Guardian Council.The bill, which was first put forward last year, would conditionally exempt those17
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Remove barriers for women exiting prostitution and trying to build a new life.Why we are supporting the call for the erasure of prostitution–specific criminal records for those who have been prostituted.Wherever you stand on the prostitution debate, one shared ground is that those selling
State security forces in Rwanda have summarily killed at least 37 suspected petty offenders and forcibly disappeared 4 others since April 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.Most victims were accused of stealing items such as bananas, a cow, or a motorcycle. Others were17
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A hanging outside Newgate Prison, early 19th centuryOn the 27th of November 1835, a crowd of people gathered outside Newgate prison in the City of London to watch the first hanging there in two years.Two men were hanged for “the abominable crime of buggery”
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Repulsive: S Prabagaran pre-execution photoThey say the practice is inhumane and morbid, while being insensitive to the grief and anguish one has to endure when on death row.PETALING JAYA: N Surendran has slammed the practice in Singapore which has death-row inmates take part in a photoshoot “a17
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Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia: Paid for the first time in 22 yearsThe issue of expat maids in Saudi Arabia. Again.After innumerable cases of violence and abuse, the Indonesian government banned its citizens from working as domestic workers
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Ali Al-Nimr, Darwood Al-Marhoun, Abdullah Al-Zahar, Abdulkareem Al-HawajFour young males on death row who were arrested in their teens in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia have been awaiting their fate for the past five years. Now, after a recent
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Ohio's death chamberRejecting Eighth Amendment challenges to the drug cocktail Ohio uses to give the death penalty, a federal judge moved the state one step closer Wednesday to resuming lethal injections.The executions of Alva Campbell Jr., Gary Otte, Ronald Phillips and Raymond Tibbetts have been
Iran Human Rights (JULY 13 2017): Following a pause in executions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, executions in Iran have dramatically increased since Saturday July 1. In the past twelve days, Iran Human Rights has reported on 56 executions carried out in Iran. 31 of the 56 prisoners18
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Participants committed to accelerating progress on rights-based family planning programmes.In 2012, at a summit in London, dozens of organisations and countries agreed to support voluntary family planning, with the aim of reaching 120 million more women around the world.If this goal were
Iran Human Rights (JULY 18 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison, and a prisoner was reportedly hanged at Chabahar Prison. According to close sources, on the morning of Monday July 17, four prisoners were hanged at Isfahan Central Prison.Iran Human Rights has18
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Taichin PreyorLawyers for death row inmate file last-minute motions days before scheduled executionWith just days left till the next scheduled execution in the Lone Star state, lawyers for convicted Bexar County killer TaiChin Preyor on Friday filed a flurry of last-minute paperwork seeking to17
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Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’.The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of the UN disability convention, according to disabled people’s grassroots groups and organisations that are working together to expose its17
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Ohio's death chamberAs Ohio plans for the 1st execution in more than 3 years, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) has released their execution policy. Ohio is planning to execute Ronald Phillips, 43, who was sentenced to death for the rape and killing of his girlfriend's17
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Gallows and trapdoor control room at Tokyo Detention CenterJapanese executions are shrouded in secrecy and heavily ritualised. The nation has been condemned for retaining the death penalty when many countries have abolished itFor Masakatsu Nishikawa, death was an efficient affair.There was a17
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Director of Administration at the Prison Service, Stephen Coffie, has revealed that Ghana currently has no hangman to execute death sentences.According to him, the last professionally trained hangman Ghana had has long left the system and is yet to be replaced.The last time the death sentence was17
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Iran: A corrupt theocracy meting out barbaric and medieval punishmentsSeven prisoners were reportedly executed in prisons located in the Sistan & Baluchestan province. Most of the prisoners were executed on drug related charges. Iran Human Rights (JULY 16 2017): In the past
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Florida's electric chairConsidered among the most dangerous inmates, Action News met with Wayne Doty in a small room at Florida's death row. Despite his wrists being shackled, security still watched his every move."An individual has the right to choose their own destiny," Doty professed.Then, the14
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Sexism and multiple discrimination commonplace in local government.A range of outdated practices and attitudes hold back gender equality in local government, according to a new report.This report, by the Fawcett Society’s Local Government Commission, is the result of a year-long study led by
The Government’s 2017 drug strategy could risk contributing to the death penalty for drug offences overseas, human rights organization Reprieve has said.The UK’s new drug strategy, released today, commits the Government to “taking new action” on counter-narcotics in countries including Pakistan