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Serge Atlaoui: "Not a drug user, not a trafficker"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - French Ambassador Corinne Breuze said the death sentence and a threat of execution of a Frenchman in Indonesia has been received as a disturbing news in France."The report is greatly disturbing for the French people as since 1981, no
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranBali's head ombudsman says Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should accept the reality that authorities are determined to execute them.Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are keeping their spirits up even as authorities around them say they should26
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Indonesian President Joko WidodoWhat will be the exit strategy for Indonesia to extract itself from the diplomatic mess our leaders and countrymen’s insistence on executing foreign citizens for drug trafficking has caused? There’s no way out in sight, unless the executions stop.With a total of 5825
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More than 140 of Australia's leading law professors, deans and academics have signed a petition pleading with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to use his constitutional powers to spare the lives of the Bali 9 pair, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.In ultimately deciding on clemency we believe the24
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Man posted an online video ripping up the Quran and hitting it with a shoeRiyadh: An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing his Muslim faith, local media reported on Tuesday.The man, in his 20s, posted an online video ripping up a copy of the Quran and
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Or just a trick of the light?By Marion Sharples and Serap Altinisik.On 24 February, the European Women’s Lobby, the largest network of women’s rights associations in Europe, launches its most recent progress report on women on boards in Europe.This report, ‘Cracks in the glass ceiling or23
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has confirmed that 2 brothers, Ali and Habib Afshari, who were in the group of 6 political prisoners imprisoned in Urmia prison have been hanged.Activists Habib and Ali Afshari were declared guilty of "corruption on earth" and "acting against God's will" by the23
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Or face more inequality, less innovation and solutions that leave women out.A global technology revolution is taking place, and if women and girls are not part of it, the future for women’s human rights will be bleak.Join us in asking world’s leaders to ensure an end the gender gap in science20
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Celebrate the work of women writers in a literary scene too often dominated by male voices.Bristol’s Women’s Literature Festival aims to celebrate the work of women writers working today and throughout history by bringing together the diverse and exciting talent of women writers, academics and19
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On Monday 16th February, 14 prisoners were executed in Central Prison of Urmia, Vakil Abad prison in Mashhad, Bam prison, and Central Prison of Bandar Abbas.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), in the morning of Monday 16th February, 6 prisoners with drugThe Dammam Reconciliation Committee has saved 26 people from being executed for murder by persuading the families of the victims to pardon them or receive blood money.Eastern Province Gov. Prince Saud bin Naif praised the efforts of the committee and said they are acting in the best interests of18
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Rodney ReedRodney Reed's lawyers have filed an appeal citing multiple problems with his conviction and urging a stay and a re-trial - as execution looms just weeks awayThe alarm was raised around dawn on 23 April 1996 when Stacey Stites failed to show up for her 3.30am shift as a produce stocker26
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Calling for a public inquiry into the state’s response to domestic violence.The national domestic violence charity Refuge, together with families of women killed by current and former partners, are calling on the government to open a public inquiry to investigate why victims of domestic26
Feb
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Help with crime-related issues whether or not you go to the police.In response to widespread concern that children and young people in England and Wales are confused and intimidated by the criminal justice system, Victim Support has launched a website designed specifically to tackle these24
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The Government has been urged to end UK support for Pakistani drug operations that lead to death sentences, after an admission by the Foreign Office (FCO) that it does not know the identity of two British citizens facing execution after UK-funded drug raids.The FCO confirmed Pakistan’s refusal to24
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Rodney ReedAUSTIN -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has put a stay on the execution of death row inmate Rodney Reed in response to a motion filed by his lawyer on Feb. 13.In May 1998, Reed was convicted of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites and was sentenced to death.
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, February 23, 2015: Iranian state media has reported about execution of 12 prisoners on Sunday 22 February.According to the Iranian State Broadcasting eight prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) on Sunday. One of23
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Britain needs a pay rise.The TUC’s Fair Pay Fortnight, a series of events across the country aiming to raise awareness about Britain’s cost of living crisis, runs until 1 March this year.Working people in the UK, the TUC says, are seeing their living standards squeezed harder and harder every22
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The Nagoya District Court on Friday sentenced a Chinese man to death for fatally stabbing a Japanese woman and her son, injuring another of her sons and taking 200,000 yen in cash at their home in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in 2009.A panel of 3 professional and 6 citizen judges handed20
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Bol: a silent film against sexual abuse.Pooja Batura, a 29 year-old female freelance writer/director, talks about the release of her latest film short, Bol.Bol, a silent film shot in India, contains powerful vignettes that illustrate incidences of sexual abuse.Pooja Batura’s hope is that
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned that all cases of death penalty in which mercy petitions had been rejected should be proceeded further for execution of the convicts.He urged provinces to implement decisions taken under the National Action Plan (NAP)19
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‘Commit, Accelerate, Invest: Women’s organisations expect action, not words!’A message to all the United Nations’ member states, in light of the CSW59 on Beijing+20.In March, in the context of the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), all the UN’s member states18
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Appeal to be heard from Okla. inmates in case citing signs of pain during executionFlorida's highest court put executions on hold Tuesday while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether use of a controversial general anesthetic constitutes "cruel and unusual" punishment of condemned killers.The26
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A court of appeals in Abu Dhabi upheld a previous court ruling and sentenced an Asian cleaner to death after he was convicted of raping a 7-year-old school girl.Police had arrested the cleaner at the school following a report by the girl’s parents that he forced her into the kitchen where he works26
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Although ‘some of the judges were women’.The 2014 Press Awards have failed to recognise quality journalism in women writers: the nominees are overwhelmingly male.Organised by the Society of Editors, and with a plethora of well-known sponsors including Camelot, EY, L’Oreal, Unison, Reuters and24
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Main gate to Nusakambangan Prison IslandThe last hope of Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has been trampled in administrative court. An Indonesian judge has rejected the appeal from the Australian duo’s lawyers on Tuesday.Chan and Sukumaran’s legal team filed an appeal in the24
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But marching nonetheless.Million Women Rise is a global call to action that echoes on London streets as women march along them on the Saturday closest to International Women’s Day.But this year the march has been faced with an unexpected threat.From the police.Or rather, an absence of23
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While the global trend is towards abolition of the death penalty altogether, where it is still applied international law, jurisprudence and practice require that certain minimum standards are applied.How can we strengthen these international minimum standards on the application of the death23
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Pasir Putih maximum security prison on NusakambanganIsland, Central Java, where Indonesia has already carriedout several executions by firing squad.Indonesian authorities say it is very likely the two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Bali could be transferred this week in preparation for20
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Even though we acknowledge the threat to women of pre-natal sex selection.Fiona Bruce MP has tabled a parliamentary amendment to the Serious Crime Bill which would make it clear that conducting or procuring an abortion on the grounds that the unborn child is a girl – or a boy (although this19
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Saman NaseemIran has halted the execution of Kurdish juvenile offender Saman Naseem following the outrage of right groups.It is not yet clear why the execution was stopped and whether his death penalty has been overturned."We understand that the Office for the Implementation of Sentences told19
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The family of a Brazilian man in line to be executed in Indonesia along with two Australian drug smugglers has appealed for a reprieve, saying he has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who is delusional with psychotic tendencies.Rodrigo Gularte, 42, was sentenced to death in 2005 after he
This although local authorities ‘should not place victims in bed and breakfast accommodation’.The number of domestic violence victims forced into bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation in England has shot up by 16 per cent in two years.A total of 125 responses from local authorities to18
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Saman NaseemInternational human rights groups have appealed to Tehran to halt the planned execution an Iranian-Kurdish man who was 17 when he was arrested.Saman Naseem, 22, is due to be executed on Thursday for his alleged membership of a banned Kurdish party and involvement in armed