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‘The Salters proved that moral values and integrity could walk hand in hand with leadership.’
A new play about pioneers Ada and Alfred Salter is heading to south-east London after a long battle for funding by its writer and director, Alison Mead.
Politic Man tells the true story of Ada and Alf Salter, the couple who transformed an impoverished area of south-east London in the first half of the last century with their ‘Bermondsey Revolution’ of local health care, housing regeneration and environmental change.
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Dylann RoofAttorney General Loretta Lynch has a fleeting moment in time, before Dylann Roof’s show trial falls into deeper lunacy, to exercise strength, grace, and sound moral judgment on behalf of the United States government – by pulling the plug.“Ms. Lynch chose to seek the death penalty after30
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On Jan. 18, if all goes according to plan, Virginia will execute Ricky Gray for killing a former Virginia Beach homecoming queen and her family in Richmond more than a decade ago.Gray, whose only other option is the electric chair, will likely die by lethal injection. But the method the state
Oklahoma's death chamberWASHINGTON — James Chandler Ryder, convicted of killing a woman and her son over some personal belongings in 1999, is now the 13th Oklahoma death row inmate who has exhausted appeals and is eligible for an execution date.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined, without30
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Belarus: Hyanadz Yakavitski - believed executed November 2016As many as three of the four men on death row in the Belarusian capital Minsk have been executed in a shameful purge since 5 November, Amnesty International revealed today after confirming with local activists.Hard on the heels Leggi
Nebraska's death chamberGov. Pete Ricketts on Tuesday dismissed concerns about a lack of transparency in proposed changes to Nebraska's lethal injection protocol.The proposal announced Monday by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services would allow the state prisons director to choose the30
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Dylann RoofThe man accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year helped choose jurors on Tuesday for his federal death penalty trial after being allowed to serve as his own lawyer.Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against
'Since the July 15 defeated coup, many officials have called for thedeath penalty to be reinstated for the putschists.'Opposition leader Devlet Bahceli calls on ruling AK Party to send parliament bill to
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On 1 December 2016, the House of Commons will debate a motion on Transgender Equality.Hooray, you might say. At long last!But there is a problem.The Women and Equalities Committee‘s transgender equality inquiry, headed by Maria Miller, produced a report in January this year that has called
The MEP for North West England and former deputy party leader saw off the competition to win 62.6 % of the votePaul Nuttall has been elected leader of the UK Independence Party, replacing Nigel Farage.The 39-year-old Member of the European Parliament, who served as UKIP's deputy leader for six28
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"Judge Richard Gergel said 22-year-old Dylann Roof's wish to be his ownlawyer was "unwise", but nevertheless granted his request."A white man accused of killing nine black people at a South Carolina church
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"Nearly $860,000 was approved for the new chamber by the 2015 Legislature toreplace the death chamber at the now closed Nevada State Prison in Carson City."Nevada's new execution chamber at Ely State Prison is finished, but there is no expectation it will be used anytime soon.The state can no
Delaware's death chamberCourt to hear arguments over whether a ruling to end the death penalty should be applied to those still on death row.Even though Delaware Supreme Court found the state's death penalty law unconstitutional in August, the debate over whether 12 men on death row should still30
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The execution of King Louis XVI on Revolution Square, on January 21, 1793In 2016 90 countries and 2 territories retain the death penalty for certain crimes, with retentionist countries spread across the globe in Europe, Africa, North and
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Killed for ‘honour’ and now denied justice.Southall Black Sisters are launching a major campaign on justice and state accountability next week regarding the ‘honour killing’ of Seeta Kaur.Southall Black Sisters (SBS) has been supporting the family of Seeta Kaur, a British-born national of
Iran: Barbaric and medieval punishmentsA 36-year-old husband and father of two small children was executed by Iranian authorities on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (NOV 30 2016): A prisoner with drug related charges was reportedly hanged in Adelabad, Shiraz's central prison (Fars province
"Wide-ranging effects on Turkey's economy and its relations with Europe."Turkey's government is pressing on with its plans to bring back the death penalty despite the risk of dashing EU accession hopes. Tom Stevenson reports from Istanbul.When Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party Leggi
On November 21, 2012, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani national and the only surviving gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was executed after Indian President Pranab Mukherjee denied his mercy plea. The decision marked the end of an informal 8-year moratorium on capital punishment in the
Capital punishment recommended for illegal drugs, murder, rape, arson, kidnappingThe House of Representatives' justice committee will soon start deliberating on a bill to reinstate the death penalty, after a sub-panel approved the proposal on Tuesday.During a hearing by the judicial reforms29
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The cruelty of Yarl’s Wood has been exposed time after time.Join the demonstration on 3 December calling for Yarl’s Wood – and all detention centres – to be shut down.In Yarl’s Wood more than 400 women are indefinitely detained, most of whom have experienced rape, domestic violence, torture28
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The government has got its priorities all wrong when it comes to sex and pornography. Last week it was revealed that a Bill currently going through Parliament will stop people in the UK from accessing pornography websites which feature a range of sex acts deemed ‘non-conventional’ by the28
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Children watching a public hanging in IranNCRI - One of the members of the parliament in Iran admitted that the widespread mass executions under the sovereignty of the Mullahs' regime bring wrath and fright to people. He called for reconsideration to these executions.On 23rd November
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court's current guidance.Lawyers for prisoner Bobby James Moore30
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The menopause, ill-fitting Protective Personal Equipment, ‘just banter’…More than 60 Health and Safety representatives from several different Trade Unions attended a Health and Safety Forum event last month in Newcastle.In her introduction, Beth Farhat, the TUC’s Regional Secretary, said the30
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Morocco abstained from voting for the international abolition of the death penalty earlier this month, when a resolution on the matter was presented to the United Nations' Third Committee, which specializes in human rights issues.Morocco's representative clarified that the country has maintained a
Medieval and barbaric: Public execution in Saudi ArabiaA Shi’a man is at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia after he exhausted all his appeals. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial. He claims he was tortured into “confessing”, but his allegation
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A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared ready to side with a man sentenced to death for a 1980 Houston murder who is challenging how Texas gauges whether a defendant has intellectual disabilities that would preclude execution.The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution30
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Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, nicknamed "Ahok" Islamic hard-liners are planning further massive protests against the embattled officialBasuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, is set to face blasphemy charges in court, the Indonesian Attorney General’s Office
Urgent Action, November 28, 2016Himan Uraminejad has been warned by prison officials that he is at risk of execution as Iran's Head of Judiciary has approved the implementation of his death sentence.He has been on death row since 2012 for a crime committed when he was 17
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Nebraska's death chamberLINCOLN — Nebraska prison officials have proposed reviving the state’s lethal injection procedure by giving the corrections director sweeping flexibility to carry out executions, including the authority to select the types of drugs and shield their sources from the28
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Sexual harassment while at work is a constant threat housekeepers have to contend with.Hotel housekeepers and their unions in 34 countries and over 50 cities around the world held a variety of actions to highlight their fight for rights, recognition and better working conditions during the28
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"The reintroduction of the death penalty, a hotly-debated issue sinceTurkey's failed July 15 military coup attempt."AKP deputy head Turkes says he is against reintroduction of death penaltyRuling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chair Tugrul
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Ayoub ShahbaziIran Human Rights has obtained information about an 18-year-old juvenile offender detained in Sanandaj Prison who was recently sentenced to death by an Iranian court. His case file was reportedly sent to Iran's Supreme Court for review.Iran Human Rights (NOV 27 2016): According to26
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Fidel Castro, Cuba's lifelong dictator, dies at 90.In April 2013, after ten consecutive years without carrying out executions, Cuba became a “de facto abolitionist” country. The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offences, 33 of which are common
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