Rights groups and legal experts said Wednesday that Turkey would be abandoning international rights conventions, and reverting to relics of military dictatorships if it reinstates the death penalty, which was abolished more than a decade ago.Since the failed coup, hundreds of protesters have chanted in support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
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Execution of "collaborators" with Israel in Gaza city in August 2014Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemns death sentences handed down to alleged Israeli spies in Gaza.A Palestinian Authority-based human rights organization on Wednesday condemned the latest death sentences handed down21
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Dylann RoofState of mind would come into play when jurors weight death penalty or life in prison without paroleThe mental state of Dylann Roof of Columbia, an avowed white supremacist, has emerged as a key issue in his upcoming federal death penalty trial for killing 9 African-American church20
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The Taxes for Peace Bill was given its first reading in the House of Commons earlier this week.Ruth Cadbury, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, and a Quaker, introduced the Income Tax (Non-Military Expenditure) Bill under a Ten Minute Rule motion.The Bill would allow people to stop paying for20
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After the failed coup attempt of July 15 by a faction in the Turkish military orchestrated by the fugitive imam Fethullah Gulen, the discussion about reinstating the death penalty has become a major topic in Turkish politics. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested on Tuesday that he is ready to20
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President Erdogan of TurkeyPresident Erdogan of Turkey has told supporters that he will approve the death penalty being reintroduced if parliament votes for it.Amid an ongoing crackdown since an attempted coup was suppressed, the president appeared outside his Istanbul residence as the crowd19
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Nottinghamshire Police the first police force to record sexual harassment as a hate crime.While a lot of misleading headlines focus on promoting this to mean that wolf-whistling is going to become a hate crime, what is really happening is that, for the first time in England and Wales, a police18
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The film follows its characters as they battle for ideals – artistic, political, racial…One of the first feature films written and directed by a black woman and a groundbreaking romance exploring women’s sexuality, modern marriage, and the life of artists and scholars is being shown at a new18
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Louisiana death rowWith south Louisiana's summer heat and humidity kicking into high gear, the legal battle rages on over how to best protect 3 ailing condemned killers from extreme heat indexes on Angola's death row.In the most recent federal court filings in the 3-year-old case, attorneys for18
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Medieval, barbaric punishments...Public hanging in Iran.Iran Human Rights (July 18 2016): At least 29 people were hanged in Iran in the past week, according to official and unofficial sources. Most of the executions were reportedly carried out on Sunday July 17. Iranian official sources, including17
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Attorney General Muhammad PrasetyoThe Attorney General's Office (AGO) is waiting for a Supreme Court ruling to set the date of the third round of executions of drug convicts, an AGO official said on Friday.The Supreme Court will soon announce its decision on a case review and cassation submitted15
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Arizona lawyers seek records of Florida's triple-drug lethal injection protocolLawyers representing seven Arizona death row inmates want information about the drugs used in Florida's lethal-injection procedure, but corrections officials are asking a judge to keep the documents secret.The Arizona21
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Execution in Kuwait in April 2013In January, lower court found 23 of the 26 guilty of various crimes and 2 were sentenced to deathKuwait's Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld the death sentence of one of the two defendants who were awarded capital punishment by a
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The execution spree of the Iranian authorities continues with ten executions carried out on Wednesday July 20 at Rajai Shahr Prison.About 38 executions have been reported in Iran in the past week.Iran Human Rights (July 21 2016): A group of ten prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison20
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We need to ensure that the UK government takes this vital step to protect women and girls.The 13 July 2016, was a momentous day for women in the UK as 40 MPs and peers from different parties took part in a parliamentary lobby event set up by ICChange to show support for calls for the urgent20
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Executing alleged collaborators with Israel in Gaza city in August 2014Military court in Gaza sentences 3 local residents to death after they were convicted of spying for Israel.A military court in Gaza on Tuesday sentenced 3 local residents to death after
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi authorities executed two men on Tuesday, bringing to 98 the number of executions carried out in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom so far this year.Pakistani Mohammed Mokhtar, who was convicted of heroin trafficking, was19
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Caring has a statistically significant impact on employment prospects, for example.With more and more people providing care for friends and family, the role played by government and employers in supporting longer working lives is becoming more crucial than ever.For a joint report published18
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‘She is someone who has fought so hard for so many issues we care about’.Chelsea Manning’s attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent Ward and Nancy Hollander released the following statement jointly after recent reports of Manning’s attempted suicide were released to the world but the attorneys were
Indonesia: Nusakambangan prison island, where executions are carried out.The Central Java Law and Human Rights Agency, which holds authority over the prisons on Nusakambangan Island, confirmed that it recently built a number of isolation cells for inmates who are facing the death penalty.The
Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanAfter an attempted military coup, Turkey's president said he's considering bringing back the death penalty. As part of its ongoing attempt to join the European Union, Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004.In 1987, Turkey applied to join the then-European17
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JAKARTA —Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism is seeking up to 90 trillion rupiah (S$9.2 billion) worth of investment in nine tourism destinations outside of Bali, with plans to hold roadshows in the region to attract potential investors.Mr Hiramsyah Sambudhy Thaib, the chairman of a working group at15
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"President Widodo has pledged to increase the number of executions this year."Jakarta. Indonesia plans to execute this year at least two foreign convicts, one from Nigeria and another from Zimbabwe, the attorney general said on Wednesday.President Joko Widodo has
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Darkness at noon: Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)'Saudi Arabia is out of step with a global trend of states moving away from the death penalty', says Amnesty InternationalSaudi Arabia has executed its 99th person this year, continuing the trend to
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San Quentin's death rowSome of Silicon Valley’s biggest names are pouring money into an effort to overturn California’s death penalty as support for capital punishment has declined to the lowest in decades.Reed Hastings, the billionaire chief executive officer of Netflix Inc., donated $1 million20
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A judge on Monday denied a new request by Tommy Zeigler to analyze bloodstains on his crime scene clothing, the longtime death row inmate's latest attempt to exonerate himself in the 1975 Christmas Eve killings of his wife, in-laws and customer at his Winter Garden furniture store.In the 30-page
Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterGUNMA — The Maebashi District Court in Gunma Prefecture on Wednesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to death for the murders of two elderly citizens in November and December 2014.The court heard that Kazuya Tsuchiya broke into the home of Tanekichi Kawaura, 81, and19
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi authorities executed two men on Tuesday, bringing to 98 the number of executions carried out in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom so far this year.Pakistani Mohammed Mokhtar, who was convicted of heroin trafficking, was19
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Boris JohnsonThe new Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has been urged to use a meeting today with the Saudi Foreign Minister to call for an end to juvenile executions in Saudi Arabia.According to a Foreign Office statement this morning, Mr Johnson is due to host the Saudi Foreign Minister, AdelTurkey's President has refused to rule out the death penalty for the thousands of people arrested following a violent failed military coup Friday."There is a clear crime of treason and your request can never be rejected by our government," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking through his
The verdict came as the prosecution accused all the 8 of 5 charges relating to crimes like mass murders, abductions, tortures and looting.3 Islamists were handed down death penalty while 5 others jailed until death by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for committing crimes against humanity during17
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Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged 18 prisoners over the weekend, including 2 cases in public. A woman was among those hanged on Sunday.11 prisoners were hanged en masse in Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, on Sunday. 2 of the prisoners were identified as Saeed Saberi and Moslem17
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Public execution of a Burmese woman in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH: Saudi authorities executed a murderer in the holy city of Mecca on Sunday, the first death sentence to be carried out since before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.Fahd al-Hasni,
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OMAHA, NE – Speaking out today against Nebraska’s death penalty, religious leaders representing the largest church denominations in Nebraska said Christians recognize that humans are fallible and that Government does not need to take a life to protect society.Religious leaders from the Roman