August 10, 2016: A special tribunal dealing with war crimes committed during Bangladesh's independence war against Pakistan in 1971 sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life
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NCRI - 29 August 2016- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed (1), who had earlier this year noted that 'the overall situation has worsened' with respect to human rights," today condemned Iran’s ‘illegal’ execution of 12 people on drug-related
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The mullahs' regime has stepped up a spate of mass executions in recent days, hanging at least 18 people last Thursday alone.On Thursday, August 25, 7 prisoners, including a woman, were executed en masse in the Central Prison of Yazd, central Iran.The state-run Rokna news agency claimed that 5 of28
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San Quentin Death RowCondemned murderer Michael Jones was acting strangely and profusely sweating when guards escorted him in chains to the San Quentin medical unit that doubles as the psych ward on death row.“Doggone, I don’t think you’re ever going to see me again,” he told a fellow
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'The Walls' Unit, Huntsville, TexasRonaldo Ruiz was set to be executed on Aug. 31, but - as with the prior 6 scheduled executions in Texas that have been stayed or delayed - a Texas court ordered a stay of execution for him on Friday.The Texas Court of
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Iran Human Rights (AUG 27 2016): Iran Human Rights (IHR) warned yesterday about the imminent execution of more than 10 prisoners in Karaj Central Prison.According to close sources, 12 prisoners were executed at this prison early morning on Saturday August 27.Close sources have identified nine of25
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Ho Chi Minh City People's CourtThe Ho Chi Minh City People's Court Wednesday confirmed the death sentence for a Vietnamese-Australian for drug smuggling after a reinvestigation determined the drug amount was too big to commute the sentence.Pham Trung Dung, 39, was arrested at Tan Son Nhat Leggi
"The death penalty heavily depends on the county in which a defendant is tried."Just 16 counties in the US are driving the use of the death penalty, despite a nationwide movement away from the sentence, a new report
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Basic human rights – to eat, to drink, to use the toilet – being taken away as a result of the relentless ongoing cuts.At the end of last year the UK became the first country in the world to be investigated by the United Nations for grave and systematic violations of Disabled People’s23
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WikiLeaks Julian Assange speaking from the Ecuadorian Embassy, London, UK.Reminder: Homosexuality is a capital offense in Saudi Arabia.Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks is under fire for publishing Saudi government data that outs gay men, leaving them at risk of attack.Saudi Arabia is one of the23
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A gay man is thrown off a building top by ISIS militants, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2016Extreme violent images emerge of ISIS killing two of its members for homosexualityIslamic extremists have murdered four men, including two of
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1,800 drugs-related killings recorded since president Duterte took office sevenweeks ago.Since President Duterte took office on June 30, this country has seen so many people killed by vigilante death squads. The "kill list" tallied from that time by the Philippine
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his support for the death penalty, saying its reinstatement would fulfill the wishes of the Turkish majority.At a rally Sunday in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, Erdogan told hundreds of people his28
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Texas death chamberHarris County was named 1 of 16 'outlier' counties in the US, where 5 or more death sentences were assessed between 2010 and 2015A Harvard Law School study has found that racial bias, overly aggressive prosecutions and inadequate representation for poor defendants affect death27
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Texas Death Row, Livingston, TexasTerri Been was being interviewed by a reporter inside a Whataburger restaurant in East Texas on the afternoon of August 19 when the text came in: Her brother, Jeff Wood, on death row for his alleged involvement as an accomplice in the 1996
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S R NathanS R Nathan, the longest serving president from 1999 to 2011 did not grant clemency to any death row inmates during his 2 terms as President.This is according to the Singapore Working Group on the Death Penalty (SWGDP) in its statement issued on the 13th World Day
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Microbeads are a significant and avoidable part of the pollution problem the marine environment faces.Cosmetic companies should be banned from using plastic microbeads in bathroom products – like exfoliating scrubs, toothpaste and shaving gel – because of the marine pollution they are causing
Earlier this month Iran executed at least two dozen political prisoners on various charges of activities against the regime or membership in extremist groups. Though there was nothing new either with the charges or the number of executions, the action this time brought wide condemnation, especially25
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS (AUG 24 2016): Five prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (southern Iran), reported the official news website of the Iranian Judiciary. The prisoners who were identified as "H. Gh.", "M. A.", "H. J.", "A. S." and "A. M." were charged with drug offences in different23
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Nearly half of the domestic abuse services in Wales services face funding cuts this year.The Lloyds Bank Foundation, Welsh Women’s Aid, SafeLives, Women’s Aid Federation of England and Imkaan, have developed a toolkit which is to support commissioners responsible for violence against women23
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealAfter nearly 2 decades of declining use, opponents of the death penalty have begun what they characterize as a sustained legislative and political push to end capital punishment in states across the country.Voters in California and23
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealThe death penalty debate has moved out of the Legislature and into the public square.State senators in 2015 said repeal it, and they spoke with enough force to override a gubernatorial veto. Now, it's our turn to
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Death-row isolation cells on Nusakambangan Penal island, Indonesia.We were sheltered in a car at Port Cilicap, the gateway to Indonesia's Nusa Kambangan island prison, with few places to take cover outside. It was a torrential downpour so heavy you could barely see your
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A good laugh: North Korea leader Kim Jong UnNorth Korea publicly executed two officials in early August for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday, in what would be the latest in a series of high-level purges under
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Last week, the Supreme Court of Pakistan set a date for the final appeal hearing for Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death in 2010 on accusations of alleged blasphemy. The 51-year-old Christian convict and mother of 5 will have her final appeal heard before the court during the 2nd week
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Dylann RoofOn Nov. 7 in Charleston, S.C., a federal court will begin selecting a jury in the death penalty prosecution of Dylann Roof, the accused killer of 9 African American worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. At first glance, the notion of a white man facing the death27
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The death penalty has failed to reduce drug trafficking in Iran, a senior Iranian judiciary official said on Saturday shortly before the scheduled execution of 12 people for narcotics-related offences.His criticism was unusual in a judiciary that has long been a bastion of the hardline security25
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An estimated 100,000 British children were sent overseas on forced migration schemes.In 1986, a woman told social worker Margaret Humphreys that she had been taken from a Nottingham children’s home at the age of 4 and sent by ship to Australia.This had happened in the 1950s, and apparently25
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Texas death chamberTexas' execution protocol is constitutional, a federal judge ruled, dismissing a lawsuit from 5 death row inmates who say the state should retest its drugs before killing them.Texas revised its lethal-injection procedure in 2012 from a 3-judge cocktail to a dose of compounded24
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The sex trade poses a grave threat to the struggle for women’s equality.Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today.How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be23
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Mapping the impact of austerity measures on the women and children Women’s Aid groups in Scotland support.Recounting Women is a participatory photovoice project that supports women to reflect on, share and highlight issues related to their personal experiences of domestic abuse.A key theme of23
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New Mexico Governor Susana MartinezThe Catholic bishops of New Mexico in an Aug. 18 statement said they oppose Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's plan to reinstate the death penalty and called on the Legislature to reject it.The bishops recalled that when the Legislature in March 2009 repealed "the
Romell BroomCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A condemned Ohio killer who survived a 2009 botched execution is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that a second attempt to put him to death would be unconstitutional.Lawyers for death row inmate Romell Broom argue that giving the state prisons agency a22
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‘It is many years since we had a proper national conversation about the world of work.’The Labour Party is asking you what the world of work should look like in 2020, and starting a national conversation to discuss what work should be like.Given that too many of us face low pay and job