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Rahaf Mohammed said she will work in support of ‘the same freedom’ she experienced after arriving in Canada
Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teen who shot into the headlines after barricading herself into a Thai hotel room, has pledged to fight for women fleeing persecution after she successfully escaped abuse and the fear of death in her home country.
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The death of a twice-convicted murderer who declared that he wanted to die and became frustrated when his lethal injection was postponed by legal challenges has been confirmed as a suicide, authorities said Monday.Scott Raymond Dozier, 48, died Jan. 4, said the office of the Clark County coroner
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Despite her death sentence being pardoned, 54-year-old Bibi's case involves one of Pakistan's most controversial issues - the blasphemy law.ISLAMABAD: Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy, still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after her release from death
Beijing: China has hit back at Australian criticism of the death sentence handed to a Canadian man for the attempted smuggling of 200 kilograms of methamphetamine, calling it "strange"."The smuggled drugs were going to be sent to Australia. You should ask the Australian officials if they were
A Canadian man who was convicted of being an accessory to drug-smuggling in China has been sentenced to death in what appears to be the latest escalation of the ongoing diplomatic hostilities between the 2 countries.Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was first arrested in China in 2014. He was tried in
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High Court finds Department for Work and Pensions unlawful on universal credit assessments.In a test case victory for a group of working lone mothers, on 11 January 2019 the High Court found that the way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been assessing income from employmentBEIJING — China’s diplomatic clash with Canada escalated sharply on Monday, when a Canadian man was sentenced to death for drug smuggling after a Chinese court overrode his plea of innocence at a retrial that had been swiftly called after tensions erupted between the two countries.The court in
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The Ministry of Justice in Rabat has announced that King Mohammed VI has graciously pardoned 783 prisoners as part of the celebrations for the 75th Anniversary of the Manifesto of Independence. This is in accordance with the practice where pardons are given as part of the celebrations for
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 13, 2019: According to IHR sources inside Iran, 17 prisoners have been hanged for murder charges between January 2 and 9 at the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj (West of Tehran).According to the IHR sources, on the morning of Wednesday, January 9, 2019, at least 12
The murder was claimed by the Tunisian branch of the Islamic State groupA Tunisian court has convicted dozens of jihadists over the 2015 murder of a teenage shepherd, but the vast majority remain on the run, a prosecution spokesman said Wednesday.Mabrouk Soltani, 17, was beheaded as his sheep
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“He slayed six lives to quench his thirst. The entire incident is extremely revolting and shocks the collective conscience of the community.” The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday confirmed death penalty awarded to a man convicted for the murder of six persons. Gambhir Singh was convicted by the
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A Somali military court has sentenced an army officer to the death penalty after he was found guilty of intentionally killing a civilian.The victim was identified as Dayah Iman Hassan on 21st October last year near Seybiyano locality in Hodan district, Mogadishu on Saturday.The judge of the
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“It’s clear that a staggering level of violence and abuse against women exists on Twitter.”Over one million abusive or problematic tweets were sent to women last year – an average of one every 30 seconds – Amnesty International revealed recently, in a ground-breaking study into abuse againstA school teacher in northern Vietnam has received the death penalty for drug trafficking, state media reported Wednesday.Vu Ba Xenh, 40, was arrested in June 2018 in Nghe An province with 15 kilograms of drugs following a police shootout, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.On the day of his arrest
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 15, 2019: Three prisoners were hanged in Public at a square in the city of Yasuj, capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.According to Iranian judiciary’s news agency (Mizan), three men named Keykavous Jamal Sirat, Rostam Rezaei and Abdollah Johari
The family of a Canadian man who has been sentenced to death in China say their "worst fears" have been realised.Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given a 15-year jail term in November but, on Monday, a court said the sentence for drug smuggling was too lenient.The ruling is likely to worsen a
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Blaine Milam was convicted in the 2008 East Texas death of his girlfriend's 13-month-old baby.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stopped the state’s first execution of the year, pointing to changes in bite mark science and laws regarding intellectual disability and the death penalty.Blaine
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Dalian―A Canadian man accused of drug smuggling in China appeared at a new trial Monday after an upper court called for a harsher sentence in a case that could further strain ties between Beijing and Ottawa.Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was brought in handcuffs to a hearing in the northeast city
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Rusk County man scheduled to be put to death for baby's exorcism beating deathA man who was convicted of beating a child during an “exorcism” is scheduled to be the 1st Texas inmate executed in 2019.Unless there is a stay, 29-year-old Blaine Milam will be put to death by lethal injection Tuesday
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Iran on Sunday hanged 3 men sentenced to death for armed robbery, all of them executed in public in front of a crowd of onlookers, Iranian judiciary’s website Mizan reported.It took place on January 13, in the city of Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province.The victims were identified by the
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Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev, 45, was one of five men detained by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the east of the country on December 30Bekmirzaev, originally from Belarus, moved to Ireland in 2000 but left in 2013 when he took his family to the Middle East. He was an associate of a
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Paris-Geneva, January 11, 2019 - Human rights defender Israa Al-Ghomgham will appear before the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh on January 13, 2019 for participating in peaceful pro-democracy protests. After spending more than three years in arbitrary detention, she faces the death penalty
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A Saudi teenager fleeing alleged family abuse arrived in Canada Saturday as an asylum refugee after a harrowing journey in which she was almost forcibly deported back home while changing planes in Thailand.At one point, 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun had barricaded herself in an airport hotel
A group of Wyoming legislators is hoping this is the year that they repeal the death penalty. Douglas Senator Brian Boner and Cheyenne Representative Jared Olsen are sponsoring the bill. They note that no one has been executed in Wyoming since 1992, yet the state still has to pay nearly a million
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OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned a Chinese court’s decision Monday to sentence a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges, but there is new reason to doubt that China will be persuaded to grant clemency.The Star has learned that China has previously dismissed clemency pleas
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Date set for Judicial Review of state pensions for 50s-born women. The historic hearing into whether 3.9 million 50s born women have been cheated out of their state pension by the government has been set by the High Court for May 24 and 27.The date is later than expected because the14
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Join the campaign!Having a period is natural and should not be a source of awkwardness for anyone.“That time of the month” can be inconvenient and embarrassing for women and girls. It shouldn’t be.For too long, women and men have shied aware from talking about periods.Unite is currently14
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But there are no plans to build a memorial to LGBTI victims of Islamic StateIraq authorities are bulldozing a building that was home to hundreds of Islamic State (IS) homophobic crimes.Many men accused of being gay were thrown off the seven-storey building that was once home to the National
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Ye Ming Yuen, 29, was convicted of drugs offences in Singapore, including trafficking cannabis and crystal meth, and jailed for 20 years plus 24 flogsA former public schoolboy from London has been jailed for 20 years and will be caned across his bare buttocks as punishment for drugs offences in
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The issue of 'capital punishment' might once again come under the spotlight with the Ministry of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs hinting that if the country is to amend the Constitution, then the abolishing of the death sentence might be discussed.Zimbabwe's Constitution allows the death
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Rusk County man scheduled to be put to death for baby's exorcism beating deathA man who was convicted of beating a child during an “exorcism” is scheduled to be the 1st Texas inmate executed in 2019.Unless there is a stay, 29-year-old Blaine Milam will be put to death by lethal injection Tuesday
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In January 1983 the Observer Magazine examined a deeply troubling death-row dramaIn December 1982 Charlie Brooks Jnr, a 40-year-old black man convicted of the killing of a garage mechanic in 1976, ‘was the first American to be put to death by lethal injection’.‘In the vernacular of death row,’
Man who raped and murdered his sister’s step son awaits executionA man who raped and strangled an 11-year-old boy on the roof of an apartment building in Abu Dhabi will be sentenced to death, the Court of Cassation has ruled.Athan Janjua was returning from a mosque across the street from his home
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SUBANG JAYA, Jan 11 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law) Datuk Liew Vui Keong said he can empathise with families of victims of violent crimes, as it strikes a personal note with him.He said as a student studying law in the United Kingdom almost 40 years ago, one of his cousins was