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The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police on Friday recaptured a 35-year-old French national and drug smuggling suspect identified as Dorfin Felix, who had recently escaped from NTB Police custody.
NTB Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Komang Suartana said the officers had recaptured Felix on the border between North Lombok and West Lombok.
“[The case] is still under
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Authorities in Saudi Arabia have confirmed that its public prosecutor is no longer recommending the death penalty for female activist Israa al-Ghomgham, who has been held since 2015 after participating in peaceful anti-government protests.The Saudi Arabian embassy in London confirmed the shift in
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Egypt’s cabinet has approved a draft law that would see drug dealers sentenced to death, Al-Masry Al-Youm has reported.The law, which was presented to the cabinet yesterday, was part of a broader bill to combat the spread of narcotics in the country and drugs trafficking.The draft amendment
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Annihilating drug peddlers and abusers have been handed over to the armed forces, said Sri Lanka’s president.President Maithripala Sirisena made this shocking statement at a state sponsored drug abuse prevention programme in the southern town of Matara.“I will implement the death penalty, soon,”
Pregnancy and maternity discrimination has absolutely no place in a fair and decent economy.The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has launched a consultation seeking views on extending redundancy protection for women and new parents.This comes after research29
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Along with the recommendations the Council is also calling on everyone to act differently.The National Advisory Council on Women and Girls (NACWG) was established in 2017 to advise Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on what was needed to tackle gender inequality in Scotland.Over the29
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Hengdong: On Tuesday, Chinese authorities executed a man who killed 15 people after ramming a car into a crowded square in central Hunan province last year. Last September, Yang Zanyun ploughed a Land Rover into pedestrians at a public square in Hengdong city before slashing at people with a
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A businessman and former employee of the murdered victim Tang Tung Kuok have been charged for the alleged crime.No plea was taken from the accused Teng Jing Bian and Tiong Kim Kai as the case was still being mentioned in the Magistrates’ Court.The chemist’s report as well as the findings of the
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A convicted Malaysian drug trafficker was hanged in Singapore on Friday, officials said, after the city-state rejected last minute efforts to save him.The Malaysian government — which decided earlier this month to abolish the death penalty — had asked neighboring Singapore to spare the
CHANDIGARH: An Indian court on Monday convicted 15 people over serial bombings in 2008 in the northeast state of Assam in 2008, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, local media reported.A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Guwahati convicted the people
An Ohio governor delayed a man's execution next month to look at lethal injection alternativesCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed next month's execution of a condemned Ohio man and ordered the prison system to look at alternative lethal injection drugs.The announcement by the
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Almost a third of Texas prison guards quit their jobs last year, as officer turnover rose yet again despite starting salary hikes and hiring bonuses.Correctional officer turnover soared to over 29 percent, and agency-wide turnover checked in at 24.8 percent. Only two large state agencies — the
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Join the campaign to tackle negative gender stereotypes and champion diversity.It is estimated that only 25 per cent of people in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics – STEM – sector are women.This a waste of both talent and opportunity.The jobs of the future will require31
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A woman was hanged on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.The woman identified only as M.A, was convicted of “killing her husband.”She had spent 6 years on death row.The woman is the 87th woman who is executed under Hassan Rouhani, the
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Oklahoma's death row houses 18 inmates who have exhausted their legal appeals, meaning they're eligible for execution. When — or whether — any of those executions occurs, however, is an open question.The state hasn't carried out an execution since January 2015 — 4 years ago — and officials have
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Greater awareness of online child sexual abuse using live-streaming apps is needed.A new study by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has revealed shocking statistics on children being groomed, coerced and blackmailed into live-streaming their own sexual abuse over webcams, tablets and mobile29
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Pakistan‘s supreme court has upheld its decision to acquit Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row over blasphemy charges. Ms Bibi’s case became a totemic cause for fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan, after she was accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an
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In England and Northern Ireland there are still no policies in place.Amika George, founder of Free Periods and ‘period poverty’ activist, has announced a new legal campaign to provide free menstrual products to all schoolchildren.The Free Periods campaign, in partnership with the Red Box28
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Canadian Robert Schellenberg has applied to appeal a death sentence issued by a Chinese court, writing his own letter to ask a higher court to examine his case.The request sets in motion new legal scrutiny for a sentence the Canadian government has protested, although experts warn that the
SHAH ALAM, Selangor: The trial of two women accused of murdering the North Korean leader's half-brother was adjourned Monday (Jan 28) until March, and the case will now drag on until at least mid-2019.Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial since October
The Criminal Court has handed down a death sentence to a Myanmar woman for laundering dirty money and her connection with the methamphetamine trade.The court passed sentence on Myint Thein Aye, 43, after finding her guilty of several counts including laundering money from meth that she possessed
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Iranian media reported that the 31-year-old kidnapped two 15-year-olds.The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly hanged a 31-year-old Iranian man after he was found guilty of charges related to violations of Iran’s anti-gay laws, according to the state-controlled Iranian Students’ News Agency.The
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The United Nations’ human rights office said on Friday a three-member team of international experts would conduct an inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, confirming a Reuters report.Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
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Girls worry about sexual harassment ‘every day’.A new study has highlighted the prevalence of misogyny in young people’s everyday lives.It found that three quarters of young people have been exposed to negative or offensive attitudes towards women in the last six months and 65 per cent of31
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Officials said her case could not be settled with “blood money”A Filipina domestic worker has been executed in Saudi Arabia after she was found guilty of murder, the Asian nation’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has said.The 39-year-old woman was sentenced to death after the Saudi Supreme
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Texas inmate executed for Houston officer's death during adult bookstore robberyA 61-year-old Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Houston police officer more than 3 decades ago.Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the July 1988 fatal shooting of Officer Elston
(Reuters) - After nearly 30 years on death row, Robert Mitchell Jennings is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for killing a police officer during a botched robbery.His latest appeal was rejected this week by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he argued that
Asia Bibi's acquittal will be appealed against in Pakistan's Supreme Court tomorrow, Tuesday 29 January 2019, in an attempt by Pakistan's hard-line anti-Christian lobby to prevent her freedom and have the death penalty imposed upon her.Open Doors advocacy spokesman Dr Matthew Rees said: "The
Louisiana has a broken death-penalty system. It’s arbitrary, vengeful and inordinately expensive in a state with dire fiscal needs. It embodies a sordid history of racism and is shamed by one of the highest rates of reversal and exoneration in the country.I am excited that a local organization
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The sultan of the southern Malaysian state of Johor has commuted the death sentences of three Mexican brothers who were set to be hanged for drug trafficking crimes, Mexico said.After years of lobbying by Mexican diplomats, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar of Johor — one of Malaysia’s most powerful
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed four Yemenis found guilty of murdering a security guard, the kingdom’s interior ministry said on Sunday.The four men robbed and killed a Pakistani man who worked as a security guard at a company, said a ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press
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Execution was the family business for Albert PierrepointThose that drank in his pub had no idea.They were totally unaware that the man serving them a pint of ale after a hard day’s graft had killed more than 400 men and women.It wasn’t something that Albert liked to talk about.Leggi
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Capital punishment was abolished in the UK in 1964While some countries still practice it, the UK stopped punishing people convicted of murder with the death penalty almost 50 years ago.But before that date dozens of people every year would be sent to the gallows to receive the ultimate sentence
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Justices questioned whether revealing the name would risk physical harm to the supplier — or only hurt its business.The Texas prison system has argued for years that the identity of an execution drug supplier must be kept secret to avoid endangering the supplier. But as the Texas Supreme Court