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Alleged Australian child sex abuser Peter Scully (center)Bringing back a flawed system to kill a rotten individual means that we dispense with the individual but are stuck with the systemThere have been calls to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines as the
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Iranian human rights and anti-death penalty lawyer Narges MohammadiAn Iranian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 16-year prison sentence for a prominent Iranian human rights advocate.Narges Mohammadi had been sentenced in May on charges of violating national security and acting against the
Dubai: Two brothers have been sentenced to death for killing their brother-in-law by choking him with a plastic rope after he married their sister without the family’s consent.A Pakistani man, F.A., who remains at large, lured his countryman brother-in-law, M.T., to discuss their family dispute in27
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All forms of so called honour-based violence are abuse regardless of the motivation.Youth for Change, IKWRO and Not in my Classroom have joined together to run the very first National Schools’ Conference on Combatting “Honour” Based Violence for safeguarding professionals, teachers, school
Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison, IranIran Human Rights has discovered that Iranian authorities executed 17 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison about two weeks ago on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 27 2016): 17 prisoners sentenced to death on drug related charges were reportedly hanged at26
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities on Monday executed an Ethiopian housemaid convicted of killing the child of her employer more than 3 years ago, the Interior Ministry said.The ministry noted in a statement that the execution was carried out after the death
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Selling execution drugs "is an expression of political views, no different than signing a referendum petition or selling a t-shirt," an anonymous pharmacy argues in a new court filing.A pharmacy whose drugs have been used in 16 Missouri executions
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Ahmad Najib ArisMalaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) is shocked to hear that Malaysia has executed one Ahmad Najib Aris on Friday (Sept 23, 2016), at a time when Malaysia is in the process of abolishing the mandatory death penalty, and possibly the death penalty for some Leggi
A federal appeals court overturned the triple-murder conviction of an Indiana death row inmate on Friday and granted him a new trial due to key evidence that was withheld in earlier trials, the man's attorney and court documents said.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago voted24
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Screenshot from "Apprentice" by Jufeng Boo (2016)Death penalty has deterred major drug syndicates from setting up in Singapore.Singapore has come out strongly backing capital punishment for drug-related offences, telling world leaders to respect the alternative views held by other countries.The23
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‘We don’t just want to see prices reduced, we want sexist pricing practices to end’.New research just published by the Fawcett Society has revealed that sexist pricing is widespread on our highstreets with the UK’s biggest supermarkets – Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons – charging women22
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Children leaving care are being failed by the very people who should be helping them.Large numbers of young people leaving care are having their benefits stopped, pushing many into debt and destitution, new research has revealed.The Children’s Society’s report, The Cost of Being Care-Free28
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Women’s groups suggest ways for ensuring the protection and safety of refugee women and girls.World leaders gathered for two major summits on the global refugee and migration crisis recently. One was the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants co-chaired by the governments of Jordan and Ireland on28
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Pakistan says it is seeking ways to limit the scope of the death penalty, amid fears for a mentally ill prisoner who faces hanging as early as next week.Speaking on Monday at an event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the first secretary of Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN
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"A positive image must be maintained. I urge the use of the soft-powerapproach be strengthened through cultural diplomacy, the promotion ofIndonesian cuisine and also promotion through sports." - Jokowi (no kidding)President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the Cabinet to enhance the soft-power27
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"Supreme Court justices dismissed the appeal, claiming that a largeproportion of Pakistani prisoners suffer from mental illness."Pakistan's Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal brought by lawyers for a severely mentally ill prisoner, who now
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Cartoon by David Sipress, September 26, 2016, The New YorkerThere has not been a liberal majority of Justices since Nixon was President. If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will change.History, as a rule, unfolds slowly at the Supreme Court. The Justices serve for decades. The cases take years26
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court will tomorrow (Tuesday) hear a plea from death row prisoner Imdad Ali, a severely mentally ill man who narrowly avoided execution last week. The hearing comes as Amnesty International raised concerns that Mr Ali never
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsFour prisoners were reportedly hanged on Saturday September 24 at Tabriz Central Prison (East Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran).Iran Human Rights (SEPT 26 2016): Four prisoners on death row for drug related offenses were reportedly executed at Tabriz24
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Ahmad Najib ArisThe 40-year-old Ahmad Najib Aris who formerly worked as an aircraft cabin cleaner had spent 11 years on death row appealing against his death sentence without success and was hanged about 6am yesterday, after meeting his family for the last time the day before, The Star reported24
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Rauf HasaniRauf Hasani was 16 years old at the time of his arrest.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 24 2016): Rauf Hasani, a juvenile prisoner on death row in Saqqez Central Prison on murder charges, has been saved from execution after the complainants on his case file forgave him.A source close to Leggi23
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New survey sheds light on what the government’s priorities should be.The Young Women’s Trust’s annual survey for 2016, ‘No Country for Young Women’, has revealed a generation of young people despairing and anxious, many of whose lives are on hold because of serious financial, work and housing22
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Domestic abuse is not a woman’s problem, it is society’s problem.Changing Relations has been working away on the Women’s Voices Project for the last year and it is now time to snap up your tickets for the tour of ‘Make Do and Mend’.Reflecting on childhood, motherhood and marriage, Make Do and28
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“Unsafe abortion is still killing tens of thousands women around the world” UN rights experts warn.Speaking ahead of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, a group of United Nations human rights experts called on States across the world to repeal restrictive abortion27
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What is it to walk a line of uncertainty, to experience a bardo?On 8 October the Feminist Library in London is running an audio walk to rediscover the lost words of women.Guided by a Librarian and an Open Book the walkers will make their way along the foreshore of the Thames, into the romance27
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Dylann RoofThe 1st of some 3,000 potential jurors in the Dylan Roof death penalty trial began reporting Monday to the U.S. District courthouse in downtown Charleston.Jurors were summoned, some 80 at a time, before U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, whose questions were aimed at weeding out those who
An Alabama death row inmate says the courts should allow him to argue that getting shot would be a less painful way to die than enduring the state’s current execution protocol.In a filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on
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Rodrigo DutertePresident Duterte wants to reimpose the death penalty to ensure that criminals pay for their sins in case God does not exist.Duterte said "bleeding hearts" like priests and human rights groups claimed that the death penalty did not deter crime when it was in effect for years. But he26
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Nebraska: Gathering against the repeal...LINCOLN, NE – The Republican Liberty Caucus of Nebraska met in Lincoln on Saturday for its biennial convention where it passed a resolution by voice vote declaring that the organization "opposes capital punishment by any method and calls on voters in26
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Typical cell on Texas death rowIn nearly three years, Dominic Walker rarely looked another human being in the eye.Except for showers, he left his cell at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles only once a week, to exercise in a small cage resembling a dog
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India's Supreme CourtA death row convict was today set free by the Supreme Court saying the prosecution has not proved the charge against him of murdering his wife and five daughters on the basis of evidence on record.Justices Ranjan Gogoi and U U Lalit acquitted the man, even as
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‘Empowering girls’ can create a narrow and idealised model of who ‘girls’ are and what they want.An array of initiatives has emerged across the development spectrum seeking to empower girls, in response to both concerns about inequitable progress and faith in the social dividends of investing23
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin TrudeauCanada-China extradition deal will not compromise values, says TrudeauOTTAWA—Chinese Premier Li Keqiang defended China’s use of the death penalty when asked about an extradition treaty with Canada during a joint press Leggi
Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice” has been selected as Singapore’s contender for the foreign-language Academy Awards competition.The film, about a young man who is asked to perhaps take over as the country’s state executioner, had its world premiere at the Cannes film festival May this year, appearing in