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Five death row convicts got some relief on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to confirm their death sentences and modified the same to life imprisonment while holding that the case did not fall under the “rarest of rare” category or honour killing. A Bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Mukta Gupta refused to confirm the death... Five death row convicts got some relief on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to confirm their death sentences and modified the same to life imprisonment while holding that the case did not fall under the “rarest of rare” category or honour killing. A Bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Mukta Gupta refused to confirm the death sentences awarded to Old Delhi07
Mar
2014
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower court rulings that sentenced a man to death for killing 16 people by setting fire to a video-viewing parlor in Osaka in 2008 in a failed suicide attempt. The highest court's 5-justice first petty bench led by Justice Tomoyuki Yokota turned down07
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2014
A 21 year old man was hanged in Northern Iran for an alleged murder he committed at the age of 17. Despite ratifying the UN Convention for the Child’s Rights, Iranian authorities continue execution of juvenile offenders. Iran Human Rights, March 7, 2014: The local news website07
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2014
The international community must act to halt the steep rise in public executions, amputations and other barbaric punishments being carried out under the clerical regime's president Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian Resistance has demanded. The call comes after the regimes’ Supreme Court07
Mar
2014
A grandness of vision and ideas, shame about the tepid storyline and lukewarm characterizations. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. ByAmanda Rodriguez. Spoiler Alert Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity is primarily an experience. It’s an edge-of-your-seat survival tale set in the06
Mar
2014
But the askreddit modteam still allowing users to comb through women’s comment histories… Trigger warning: paedophilia, sexual harassment. Allegations have surfaced that a subreddit with over 5 million subscribers is “a safe space for paedophiles” – but not for06
Mar
2014
Levels of violence towards UK women often higher than the EU average. A survey unveiled by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) in Brussels calls for all EU member states to sign and ratify the Istanbul Convention as a measure for combating violence against women. The survey ‘Violence05
Mar
2014
Britain’s premiere women’s film festival details unveiled. Next month’s Bird’s Eye View Film Festival – celebrating women filmmakers – has launched details of this year’s event. This is the 10th Festival edition, and it will run from 8-13 April at04
Mar
2014
Florida Death Chamber As the death penalty becomes rarer and more concentrated in a few parts of the country, the states that continue to employ it are resorting to more desperate schemes to kill people. In January, for the third time in as many months, Missouri executed an
2 Libyan politicians on trial over a cartoon said to be offensive to Islam on Sunday had charges that could have led to the death penalty dismissed, their lawyer said. "The court gave its verdict. It decided on a dismissal of the 3 main charges" which carried a possible death penalty in04
Mar
2014
Review addressing who might be asking for food aid help, as well as how and why they do so, released. The report of a research project looking at available evidence on what ‘food aid’ is available to households in the UK, who takes it up and why has just been released03
Mar
2014
Dinesh Pillai Raja Retnam is the third person to escape the gallows under the revised Misuse of Drugs Act, but the first to have his death penalty lifted on grounds of mental disability. On Monday the High Court found that Dinesh Pillai had only played the role of a courier. The07
Mar
2014
Louisiana corrections officials must reveal the manufacturer and source of the state's lethal injection drugs within the week, a federal judge ordered Wednesday (March 5). U.S. District Judge James J. Brady also ordered the names of the staff and healthcare professionals involved in07
Mar
2014
Four men were publicly whipped Thursday in northern Nigeria after being convicted of having gay sex by an Islamic court, according to a human rights activist with the Coalition for the Defense of Sexual Rights Network. Dorothy Aken’Ova told the Associated Press that the men wereThe United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, is in Papua New Guinea assessing the newly imposed death penalty. Death by lethal injection has been legislated as the preferred method for judicial killings in PNG. Previously, hanging
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2014
For crimes against women to be taken seriously, women must first be treated with respect. In September last year the Home Secretary, Theresa May, commissioned Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) to carry out a review into how police forces in England and Wales are06
Mar
2014
Event series looked at the intersection of race and gender for black women. The Women’s Society at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) held an event series focused on the intersection of race and gender for black women recently. I managed to get to the06
Mar
2014
Policymakers need to recognise the extent of violence against women. A new report just released by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents results from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, and reveals the extent of abuse suffered by women at05
Mar
2014
Edinburgh City Council decided to withdraw ‘sauna’ licensing. From Zero Tolerance, a charity working to tackle the causes of men’s violence against women. The City of Edinburgh Council’s Regulatory Committee has decided to stop licensing saunas and massage parlours04
Mar
2014
Kerobkan Prison, Indonesia Sydney. Australian drug mule Schapelle Corby could have her parole revoked after a documentary about her release from jail, Indonesia’s justice minister was quoted as saying Tuesday. The 36-year-old, whose case has been the subject of huge04
Mar
2014
Hundreds in Downing Street protest at racist attack on Polish biker. Last week hundreds of UK-based Eastern Europeans and their supporters staged a protest in Downing Street following a racially motivated attack on a Polish motorcyclist in East London. The demonstrators are concerned that04
Mar
2014
Public flogging in Iran NCRI - The highest court in clerical regime ruling Iran has approved the sentence of a young man to have his eyes gouged and his right ear and nose cutoff, state-run daily Shraq reported. The man identified by his first name Jamshid was convicted03
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2014
NCRI - The Iranian regime hanged four prisoners on Sunday in southern city of Bandar-Abbas, state-run Mehr news agency reported. The prisoners identified by their initials as M.R.,H.A., A.B., Y.A., were hanged for drug related charges. Also on the same day, the Iranian regime henchmen07
Mar
2014
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Makers and suppliers of Alabama's execution drugs would be kept secret and not released to the public or the courts under a bill approved Thursday in the Alabama House of Representatives. House members voted 77-19 for the bill being sought by the Alabama07
Mar
2014
Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah warned online critics of the country's Sharia Law that they could face prosecution once the new penal code takes effect next month: They can no longer be given the liberty to continue with their mockery and if there is a basis for them to be brought to07
Mar
2014
New study reveals risks to offspring of delaying fatherhood. Being in the ‘over 35′ age group and childless, I am constantly being reminded by ‘concerned’ male friends that ‘there is a time-limit, you know’, or being ‘kindly’ told that the alarm06
Mar
2014
The UK and its drones: something we know so little about. According to a report by Stanford and New York Universities’ Law schools, between 2,562 and 3,325 people were killed by drone strikes in Pakistan between June 2004 and mid-September 2012; between 474 and 881 of those were
Research suggests high-earning mothers could be the secret to happier families. The outdated notion that increased female independence would undermine traditional family structures has been turned on its head, thanks to new research. Heterosexual couples in which the woman earns at least 2005
Mar
2014
Survivors of rape and torture, perpetrated by male state officials, are imprisoned and guarded by men here in the UK. The experience of female asylum seekers is distinct to their gender, particularly when survivors of rape and torture, perpetrated by male state officials, are imprisoned04
Mar
2014
‘Prejudice is hardwired into our culture, language and history’. In a recent London Review of Books lecture, Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, said that ‘When as listeners we hear a female voice, we haven’t learned how to hear authority04
Mar
2014
Farzaneh (Razieh) Moradi (26) was hanged in the prison of Isfahan this morning- She was convicted of murdering her husband, to whom she had been married to at the age of 15. Farzaneh’s daughter is 10 year old and has not seen her mother since she was arrested six years ago. Iran04
Mar
2014
Protest against the damaging and destructive austerity policies of the Coalition government. A demonstration and rally in York has been called by the Yorkshire and Humber TUC to coincide with the Liberal Democrat’sSpring Conference, which is being held there. The demo and rally will be03
Mar
2014
We must persuade the public that they’re wrong about welfare. By Sue Marsh. Who says magic can’t happen on a Monday morning? From now until the election we have to do just one thing. We must persuade the public that they’re wrong about welfare. Just that one thing. If
A 34-year-old Iranian man is in imminent danger of hanging for allegedly "insulting the Prophet" in a recorded private joke that security forces found on his personal computer. Rouhollah Tavana was arrested by Mashhad Intelligence officers at his home in October 2011, and the