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A group of 5 condemned prisoners this week asked the U.S. District Court in Phoenix not to lift a moratorium on executions instituted after a botched 2014 lethal injection, arguing that the Arizona Department of Corrections has not properly addressed concerns about the drugs used for the procedure.A federal judge in November
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OMAHA, Neb. —New questions are arising about Nebraska's effort to obtain the drugs needed to execute prisoners on death row.Federal sources stated that the Drug Enforcement Administration and Food and Drug Administration said they have no idea what Nebraska officials are referring to when27
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Ali Mohammad al-NimrThe mothers of 5 young Saudi prisoners sentenced to death by beheading made a passionate plea to the king to spare their sons' lives. The appeal followed reports that the Gulf kingdom is poised to execute more than 50 people convicted of terrorism.In a public letter the Leggi27
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Iran Human Rights (NOV 26 2015): According to the Baluchestan Activists Campaign, five people were hanged at Minab Prison (in Hormozgan province) on the morning of Tuesday November 24.The prisoners were reportedly executed for alleged drug related offenses; one of the prisoners was Kurdish and27
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Ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran executed in April this year.Were the Bali Nine case to occur now, Australian Federal Police could still provide information to Indonesian authorities without first seeking ministerial approval.That's because guidelines, adopted in 2009, require the26
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‘Most local councils fund no support for BME women facing violence and abuse at all.’A powerful and authoritative new report on the health of the black and ethnic minority (BME) women’s organisations which support women and girls fleeing or at risk of violence and abuse in the UK, was published25
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Ashraf FayadhSaudi Arabia's justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down on Friday to a Palestinian poet to the punishments meted out by Islamic State, a major government-aligned newspaper reported on Wednesday."The justice ministry will sue the person25
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The cycle of suppression, in particular group hangings, continues in Iran after the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted of a resolution condemning rights violation on 19 November.At least 11 prisoners have been executed in Iran since25
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Violence against women and girls is not inevitable.Prevention is the theme of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence this year and the focus of the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign’s call for action.Violence against women is a human rights violation.Violence25
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NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen in city of Karaj hanged at least five prisoners in Gohardasht Prison on Tuesday. The victims included Alireza Shahi whose death sentence was condemned by Amnesty International on Monday.Five men were part of a group of at least ten prisoners that their
Ivan KuleshA 28-year-old man, Ivan Kulesh, was sentenced to death in Belarus on 20 November. He is at least the second person to receive the death sentence in 2015.On 20 November the Hrodna Regional Court, in western Belarus, sentenced Ivan Kulesh to death for “committing murder with particular24
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Shout a loud NO to rape and all forms of male violence against women.On 28 November 2015, more than a thousand women will take to the streets of central London in the annual women-only Reclaim the Night march.Join in!Close down central London for women, put your feet on the streets to shout27
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The consultation on the new A level politics syllabus runs until 15 December.Earlier this month the UK government’s Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual put forward proposals for a revised Politics ‘A’ Level syllabus.The details of the revised syllabus proposal ‘Politics – Draft AS and A
Sri Lanka said on Friday it was calling on Saudi Arabia to pardon a domestic worker sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in the Arab nation.An official from Sri Lanka's Foreign Employment Bureau said the married 45-year-old woman who was working as a
Kerobokan prison, on Bali Island, IndonesiaJakarta. Indonesia’s controversial anti-narcotics czar says he has found the ideally located island on which to build a prison for drug offenders – but that the lack of native wildlife is somewhat of a downer.Budi Waseso, the National Narcotics Agency
Death sentences imposed on corrupt Vietnamese officials will now be commuted to life in prison if they pay back at least 75 percent of the illegal money they made.The online newspaper VnExpress said the new regulation was part of the revised Penal Code that an overwhelmingly majority passed in the26
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‘These relationships were a violation of the women’s human rights’ and ‘an abuse of police power’…It’s an extraordinary statement by any standards. Even when the police pay large compensation, they usually do so with no admission of culpability for anything.But last Friday they issued a
Reggie ClemonsThe Missouri Supreme Court yesterday threw out the 1st-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Reggie Clemons, who was sentenced to death in St. Louis as an accomplice to a 1991 murder of 2 young women.Steven W. Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)25
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International human rights NGO Reprieve has raised concerns over Saudi media reports, which suggest that juveniles Ali al Nimr and Dawoud al Marhoon could be executed in days.Saudi news outlet Okaz has today reported that 55 people convicted of ‘anti-Government offences’, are to be executed in the25
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EU court hearing puts spotlight on Commission’s delay over hormone disrupting chemicals.A crucial court hearing against the European Commission took place recently when the European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg heard Sweden’s case against the European Commission for failing to fulfil25
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Reginald ClemonsThe Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the 1st-degree murder convictions for Reginald Clemons, who had been sentenced to death for a 1991 double-murder on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge.Clemons had been fighting his conviction and death sentence in the 1991 rape and killing
A killing spree: Erecting gallows in PakistanA disabled Pakistani murder convict was given a fourth stay of execution late Tuesday just hours before he was due to be hanged, as rights activists slammed Islamabad for a executions spree on track to see 300 deaths in
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A handbook for women involved in child arrangements proceedings in courts.Published by Rights of Women, a women’s charity working in a number of ways to help women through the law, the handbook, ‘Child arrangements and domestic violence: a handbook for women’, is a helpful, practical resource27
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After Paris and Beirut terrorist attacks we must stand against hatred.The Muslim Women’s Network UK (MWNUK), a national charity that works to improve social justice and equality for Muslim women and girls, was, like so many of us, shocked and angry at the recent terrorist attacks that tookAshraf FayadhRiyadh: A Palestinian artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for apostasy was quoted by a local news website Thursday as saying that he is not an atheist and that his case centres around a personal dispute he had with someone.Ashraf Fayadh gave the interview to Makkah Online27
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“The incredible support we’ve received shows there is a real appetite for change.”The Women’s Equality Party (WE) has announced that they have raised enough funds to stand candidates in the London mayoral race, the London and Welsh Assembly elections and the Scottish Parliament elections next26
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A young prisoner charged with rape was hanged in public in Meyami, Semnan. A young prisoner charged with rape was hanged to death in public in Meyami, Semnan.Iranian state-run media Javan News has identified the prisoner
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Damien EcholsMy name is Damien Echols, and in 1993 I was arrested for three counts of capital murder in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Nine months later I was sentenced to death, and spent almost 19 years on death row before being released in 2011 when new evidence
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Philippe Marcel Guy GraffartThe Belgian man accused of killing his 5-year-old son in their D'Leedon condominium home will be remanded for another week at the Central Police Division to assist in investigations.Philippe Marcel Guy Graffart, who appeared in court looking calm and relaxed on25
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Gender-based violence in its many forms is a human rights violation.The Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) launches the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign on 25 November each year.Along with over 5,478 organisations and other participants from 187 countries25
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‘Every £1 considered a “saving” in sexual and reproductive health could actually cost £86.’‘Unprotected Nation 2015’ is a report commissioned by the sexual health chairty the Family Planning Association (FPA) which considers the knock-on effects of a 10 per cent cut in spending on contraception25
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BEIJING — A top Chinese health official has denied that the country’s new organ transplant system allows organs to be harvested from executed prisoners, saying that earlier comments he made suggesting that a loophole allowed the practice to continue had been misconstrued.The official, Dr. Huang24
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Fallujah, Iraq: ISIS militants execute 2 gay men accused of being gay.Islamic State (ISIS) militants have executed another two gay men accused of being gay in Iraq.Photos posted on social media Monday (23 November) show two blindfolded men being thrown
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A gay man is about to be thrown off a building rooftop by ISIS fightersin Iraq in August 2015.A Dutch-born Islamic State fighter has hosted an online Q&A – in which he
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