An Iranian court recently sentenced to death 2 Kurdish women on adultery charges, a Kurdish rights group reported on Monday.
“A Kurdish woman for Mako by the name of Gulistan Jnikanlou was sentenced to death by the Khoy Criminal Court of West Azerbaijan Province, accused of committing zina,” reported Hengaw, a group which writes on human rights violations involving
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#TaxJustice is when taxes are fairly raised and fairly spent. Women need #TaxJustice now.The first week of November 2018 marks the one year anniversary of the release of the Paradise Papers – yet another high profile tax scandal that highlighted the human impact of global tax dodging, exposing05
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2 months after an 8-year-old girl was raped in Madhya Pradesh‘s Madsaur, a special court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to 2 men for the crime saying they deserved no leniency.The girl was abducted and later gangraped on June 26, an incident which had triggered widespread outrage and led to
A female prisoner detained in Khoy Prison, who was arrested on November 2016, was accused of adultery (sex outside marriage) after being sued by her husband and has been sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch 1).This prisoner has been identified as Zahra Derakhshani, born in 1982
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Iranian journalist Pouyan Khoshhal has been arrested in Tehran and charged with a crime that could carry the death penalty for using the word "demise" instead of "martyrdom" while referring to a revered figure of Shia Islam.He was also fired from the reformist Ebtekar newspaper, which issued an
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‘Major conflicts of interest exist in the pesticides regulatory system’.European regulators are letting the citizens of the EU down by allowing the use of harmful pesticides in agriculture and public green areas based on an ‘unfit for purpose’ risk assessment regime that relies on pesticide31
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Business as usual is no longer an option.Environmental group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has officially announced its nonviolent uprising against what it sees as criminal inaction by the British government on the climate emergency and ecological crisis.Extinction Rebellion believes it is a31
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SINGAPORE: Singapore will gauge public attitudes towards the death penalty in a survey, the interior ministry said Wednesday, as human rights groups renewed calls for its abolition.The city-state — which staunchly maintains that capital punishment is a crime deterrent — executed eight convicts
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Recommendations offer a range of options for treatment that don’t involve the use of surgical mesh/tape.After all the horror stories about surgical mesh/tape and months of awareness-raising campaigning, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has now come up with a draft30
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On Friday 26th October, Singapore executed two men for drug trafficking, bringing the total number of executions this year to nine. Our research indicates that all are for drug-related crimes, making Singapore one of the world’s top executioners for non-violent drug offences, along with Saudi
PETALING JAYA: Retired Court of Appeal judge Mah Weng Kwai believes that the death penalty is not a deterrent and that there are other ways to prevent crimes from being committed.Recalling an execution he witnessed 35 years ago when he was a rookie magistrate, Mah said that unless the execution
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South Dakota executes inmate who killed prison guard in 2011SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota inmate who killed a correctional officer seven years ago during a failed prison escape on the guard's 63rd birthday was put to death Monday evening, marking the state's first execution since
After 4 decades with only 6 executions, Tennessee is on schedule to execute 3 inmates this year.Edmund Zagorski died in the electric chair Thursday night after a last minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was declined. His death followed that of Billy Ray Irick's in August. David Earl Miller's
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The Singapore High Commission today clarified that the photoshoot involving convicted drug trafficker Prabu N. Pathmanathan in the week before his execution was done at his request.In a statement, the Singapore High Commission said that the photos were given only to Prabu’s family.The commission
Saudi Arabia's decision to execute an Indonesian domestic worker has triggered a diplomatic row between the 2 nations. The maid's case highlights the dangers faced by foreign workers in Saudi households.The execution of an Indonesian domestic worker by Saudi authorities this week without even
On the day of the execution I learned that a petition had been filed with the Tennessee Supreme Court, asking that the execution be halted because death by electrocution was cruel and unusual. The petition was signed by dozens of the finest members of the Bar, including one of my law partners.I
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The women’s story, particularly the story of regional working-class women, has largely been ignored.Invisible Women is a short documentary aiming to tell the untold story of the North West of England’s LGBTQ past over the last 50 years through the lens of two women’s incredible journey of31
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The first jurisdiction in the British Isles to decriminalise abortion.The Isle of Man’s Campaign for Abortion Law Modernisation (CALM) has delightedly announced that the Isle of Man’s House of Keys has voted to pass Dr Alex Allinson MHK’s Abortion Reform Bill 2018.Once the three newThe government has aired its “deep concerns” about the execution of Indonesian migrant worker Tuti Tursilawati, which was carried out on Monday without the prior knowledge of her family or Indonesian officials.Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi immediately called her Saudi counterpart Adel bin Ahmed
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London’s blue plaques scheme relies on public nominations, and English Heritage need your help.London’s blue plaques scheme, currently run by English Heritage, celebrates the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked.English Heritage has run30
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"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a horrible death on him and
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An on-the-run killer who raped and murdered a man before burying his body in the Dubai desert has been given the death penalty.The 31-year-old, from Pakistan, orchestrated the murder plot with a 21-year-old accomplice, who was jailed for 10 years for his part in the crime.The 30-year-old victim
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‘Too little has been done to reduce emissions and protect our country’s health’.The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) – the body of UK health professionals advocating for action on climate change to protect public health – is calling on government to implement the biggest shake up05
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urges the United States of America to stay the execution of Roberto Moreno Ramos, a Mexican citizen, which is scheduled for November 14, 2018, in the state of Texas, and to grant him effective relief. The United States is subject to the
Shah Alam High Court, Malaysia released an Indonesian migrant worker named Mattari from the death penalty in the trial on Friday, Nov. 2.Mattari, a 40-year-old man from Sampang, Madura, worked in the neighboring country as a construction worker. He was nabbed on December 14, 2016, in Kuala Lagat
The lawyer representing a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after eight years on death row has fled Pakistan in fear for his life.Saif Mulook told news agency AFP he had to leave so he could continue to represent Asia Bibi, whose conviction was overturned by judges on Wednesday.Officials
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Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died at 7:26 p.m. CDT on Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 63.He is the 134th person put to death by Tennessee since 1916 and the second person this year after Billy Ray Irick’s execution by lethal injection
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Edmund Zagorski, 63, is set to be executed by electrocution on Thursday night after opting against lethal injection.Tennessee plans to execute 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski by electrocution on Thursday night after the condemned man requested not to be put to death by lethal injection.Zagorski, who
Argus Leader reporter Danielle Ferguson was one of the media witnesses for Rodney Berget's execution Monday at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. These are her impressions following that assignment:One of the more revealing moments was when we were stopped between the very gates Rodney Berget
A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy, a case that has polarised the nation.Asia Bibi was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a row with her neighbours.She always maintained her innocence, but has
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Tennessee cannot execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski as scheduled Thursday unless prison officials give his attorney access to a phone during the final minutes of his life, a federal judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger granted a temporary restraining order Monday, saying the
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Hong Kong (CNN) -- Every year, the Chinese state carries out several thousand judicial executions -- more than the rest of the world combined. For the most part, the names of those executed remain secret, known only to their families.All figures about the death penalty, as well as most details
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The death penalty has existed for as long as there have been laws. In the 18th century BC in Babylon, the Code of King Hammurabi laid out the ultimate punishment for 25 different crimes. The practice continues in the US today, sanctioned by 30 states and federal law.Still, only one person has
A South Dakota inmate and the family of the prison guard he killed in a failed escape 7 years ago waited Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether his execution should be halted, deliberations that delayed Rodney Berget’s death for at least a few hours past his scheduled execution