Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher, Dawood al-MarhoonFears are growing that Saudi Arabia is about to behead a man for crimes committed when he was a juvenile - in violation of both international and Saudi law - triggering calls for the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, to
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On the the Throne Day, to be celebrated on Saturday in Morocco, King Mohammed VI granted pardon to 1,272 persons who were convicted by different courts across the Kingdom, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.The detained beneficiaries of the pardon are 992:-- 11 inmates benefited from the30
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South Sudan army's (SPLA) 5th division in Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Friday executed 2 soldiers charged with murder and various crimes.The duo were arrested on 17 July and kept at Wau central prison after for allegedly murdering a couple at a residential area situated within Wau town.They
Gurdip Singh's wife and children appeal for his safe return.48-year-old Singh was among 10 convicts who were to be executed but were not put to death.JALANDHAR -- The wife of Indian national Gurdip Singh, who was to be executed over drug charges
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An Instagram user has sparked fury online by claiming to have burned a Singapore flag and challenging authorities to give him the death penalty.2 photos uploaded by the user show part of a Singapore flag in flames. "They have to throw the death penalty on me if I keep doing
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With a panel discussion, a book launch and a party.In October ‘Forty Years a Feminist’ at the Bristol Festival of Ideas will commemorate Bristol’s feminist activism with a panel discussion, the launch of Miriam David’s book ‘Reclaiming Feminism’, and a party to celebrate four decades of
Jakarta. Despite international calls to abandon the death penalty altogether, the government went ahead with the third round of executions at the notorious Nusakambangan prison island, Central Java, early Friday (29/07).The executions commenced slightly after midnight, after postponed by falling28
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Glover’s combined passions for peace and art create a fascinating socio-historical record of peace activism.And from 5 August until October 2016 the Bradford Peace Museum will be exhibiting work by artist and peace activist Maggie Glover with the title ‘Painter of Honest Portraits’.A portrait28
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"The report found Zulfiqar Ali was a victim of conspiracy and was innocent"Cilacap: Fears that innocent people will be killed in Indonesia's looming executions are intensifying, with a former senior government official revealing an internal investigation he conducted into
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In the absence of a response from the government, women’s groups call for boycott.As we reported here, earlier this month an unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and abroad submitted a letter to Theresa May, at that time Home Secretary, raising27
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Indonesia is running a serious risk of executing innocent persons if it insists on going ahead with the executions of 14 death row convicts, expected on Friday.The convicts, who have received official notification letters of their forthcoming execution on Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap
Hundreds of firing squad personnel from the Central Java Police’s Mobile Brigade were taken to Nusakambangan prison island in Cilacap on Tuesday evening.They were transported to the prison island using several police trucks at around 8:00 p.m. local time via Wijayapura Quay in Cilacap.It took01
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The United Nations human rights chief is opposing the imposition of capital punishment in all circumstances, saying death penalty is "not an effective deterrent" to crime and does not protect people from drug abuse.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein was reacting to the30
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Activists hold posters which read "Jokowi, stop the executions!" during a candlelitvigil outside the presidential palace in Jakarta. Photo: APYet again on Friday morning, Indonesia showed its most brutal and ugly
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 29 2016): Two prisoners were reportedly executed this week, one in central Iran and the other in the northeastern region of the country.According to a report by unofficial source HRANA, on the morning of Wednesday July 27, a prisoner was hanged at Mashhad Central Prison29
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Indonesia has carried out a 3rd round of executions under President Joko Widodo. Attorney-General H. Muhammad Prasetyo had announced that 14 people would face the firing squad, but only 4 were killed on Thursday night - 3 Nigerians and an Indonesian national.All those executed under Widodo have
Cilacap: The fate of 10 death row prisoners who were saved from the firing squad in Indonesia just minutes before the executions took place remains unclear, with the country's attorney-general refusing to confirm if they have won a permanent reprieve.Just four of the planned 14 executions Leggi28
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The EU has called on the Indonesian government to halt all executions and to consider joining a large community of more than 140 states that have abolished the death penalty entirely or have adopted a moratorium.The EU made the statement in a response to the planned executions of up
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Attorney General H.M. PrasetyoJakarta. H.M. Prasetyo has continued to secure his position as attorney general despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's cabinet reshuffle due to his tenacity to execute drug convicts, Hendardi, chairman of political watchdog Setara Institute told Suara Pembaruan on28
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Richard Jordan has been on death row in Mississippi for 40 years for kidnapping and murdering Edwina Marter in 1976, even though the average wait time for death-row inmates to be killed is about 14 years. Jordan and fellow death-row inmate Thomas Loden Jr., convicted in 2001 for sexual assault27
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Three main steps aim to get victims of domestic abuse to safety, freedom and independence quickly.On average two women are killed by their partner or ex-partner every week in England and Wales.The national domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid and domestic abuse charity SafeLives launched a new27
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Pope Francis’ position on the death penalty is abolitionist.He believes there is no moral ground in Catholic teaching that would justify any state using capital punishment today, and he has set up a commission to review the question and the relevant section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church27
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged on Wednesday a group of six prisoners in a jail in north-western Iran and a seventh prisoner in the north-east of the country.The six men were hanged at 2am on July 27 in the central prison in the city of Orumieh (Urmia), the provincial
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A justice reform watchdog has urged the government to publicly reveal information about stays of execution for death row convicts.The Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) regretted the government's decision to execute four drug convicts on Nusakambangan prison island in the early hours of30
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Father Charles BurrowsA Catholic priest who was present at Nusakambangan prison in Indonesia during this week's executions has said in the past it has taken up to 15 minutes for prisoners to die.Father Charles Burrows, who is based in Cilacap near the prison, was called there to speak with Leggi
Indonesian President Joko Widodo with Germany's Angela MerkelIndonesia’s president continues to execute drug offenders, despite international pressure.The third wave of executions announced by the Indonesian attorney general’s office has created an uproar and made headlines all around the world
Batu prison's isolation cells on Nusakambangan island, IndonesiaThe government's statement comes just hours after it executed 4 drug convicts including 3 foreignersIt looks as if international and local pressure on the Indonesian government to abolish the death penalty is making some progress.On29
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An ambulance carrying the body of one of the four executed drug convicts leavesCilacap, Central Java, Indonesia on July 29, 2016.Attorney General M. Prasetyo has said the stay of execution for 10 drug
Leggi TuttoJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia plans to execute 14 death row prisoners, mostly foreigners, as early as Friday morning as it resumes a “war on drugs” that drew international condemnation last year after two mass executions of foreign drug convicts.The attorney general’s office has not announced any28
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“If nothing has changed, there will be 14 people.”: AG Coffins taken to Nusa Kambangan in preparation for firing squad deaths, as country carries out first executions since Bali Nine pair and six others last yearSpiritual advisers and families of inmates on death row in Indonesia have been told28
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Merri UtamiFemale migrant workers are perfect targets for drug traffickers as they are often poor but hold passports, campaigners sayJAKARTA, July 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The case of an Indonesian woman expected to be executed this week for drug trafficking highlights the risk to migrant27
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If you don’t think misogyny is a hate crime, then you’re probably part of the problem.Earlier this month, as Women’s Views on News reported, Nottinghamshire Police became the first police force in England and Wales to record misogyny as a hate crime.They define misogyny hate crime as27
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Indonesia is likely to resume executions of prisoners this week, with 14 inmates – four Indonesians and 10 foreign nationals – expected to face the firing squad this weekend.No formal list of death row prisoners has been released by Indonesian authorities, but a group of lawyers from the Leggi
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Dubai: A Saudi court sentenced two men it said were Al Qaida followers to death on charges of decapitating a Saudi intelligence service colonel in 2007, local media reported on Tuesday.The men attacked Colonel Nasser Al Othman at his
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