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Dr. Mohamed Moncef MarzoukiDr. Mohamed Moncef Marzouki served as the interim President of Tunisia between 2011 and 2014, following the Tunisian Revolution. He is best known for his role in establishing the national Truth and Dignity Commission to investigate violations of human rights and provide reparations to victims.
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President Ramzan KadyrovThe names of 27 people slaughtered in a single night by Chechen authorities have been published.The secret mass execution is thought to have seen up to 56 people killed – all without trial.Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper based in the region, has published the list of names it10
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Prabagaran SrivijayanThe family of Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, have been informed that his execution has been scheduled in Singapore for 14 July 2017. Against international law and standards, he was convicted of and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2012 for drug-related09
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B. Rames Batumalai (left) and Suthar BatumalaiThe family of brothers Rames Batumalai, 45, and Suthar Batumalai, 40, alleged that Suthar's body was found to have strangulation marks around his neck area, the neck was not broken (the neck is broken clean in a proper hanging), and
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Drug used to perform lethal injections draws controversyIt's been 5 years since Mississippi executed a death row inmate. In an exclusive interview with 16 WAPT News, Attorney General Jim Hood said he's expecting 2 executions in 2017.The state executed 6 death row inmates in 2012 by way of lethal
Authorities Should Release all in Arbitrary Detention, Drop ChargesSudanese authorities have been unjustly holding Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, Hafiz Idris, and Mobarak Adam Abdalla, 3 human rights defenders, and have charged them with crimes against the state which carry the death penalty, 25 human09
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The Iranian Parliament's Legal and Judicial Affairs Committee is calling on the judiciary to halt executions of prisoners convicted of petty drug offenses until a pending amendment to the law that could save thousands of prisoners on death row is passed."We expect the amendment to the Law Against08
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In the new law, the definition has been expanded to include the death of "security personnel on board" or "ground support staff" as well. NEW DELHI -- The country's new anti-hijacking law, which prescribes capital punishment in the event of death of "any person", has come into force following06
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Scottish government could ‘help close gender pay gap and boost economy by several billion pounds’.The Scottish government could use devolved powers to help close the gender pay gap, and boost Scotland’s economy, according to a committee report published by the Scottish Parliament recently.And05
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But the cost of treatment is just one barrier of many Northern Ireland’s women and girls face.Scotland and Wales have joined England and pledged to offer free abortion healthcare to women and girls who from Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland has sickeningly strict abortion laws, and women and05
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Belarus President Alexander LukashenkoMINSK, 5 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian state cannot go against people's will in the matter of death penalty, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the plenary session dedicated to the formal opening of the 26th OSCE PA annual session in Minsk on 504
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Atheism remains one of the most extreme taboos in Saudi Arabia. It is a red line that no one may cross. Regarded on a par with terrorists, atheists in Saudi Arabia suffer imprisonment, marginalisation, slander, ostracisation and even execution. Efforts at normalisation between those who believe and11
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Saudi Arabia: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsSaudi Arabia executes six for drug trafficking, homicideA Pakistani citizen was executed for drug trafficking and five Saudi nationals for homicide.Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the
A prisoner on death row has challenged the implementation of death penalty by hanging in the Peshawar High Court seeking the introduction of a less painful mode of execution in accordance with modern scientific developments.Kept at the Haripur Central Prison, Jan Bahadur filed the petition09
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At present, 25 of 27 prisons in Punjab are significantly over capacity and the highest number of executions take place in the most overcrowded prisons.Pakistan's use of the death penalty has failed to deter crime, is not being used to curb terrorism and is exceedingly used as a political tool09
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealCapital punishment is currently illegal in 19 states plus the District of Columbia.During Election 2016, voters in 3 states showed support for the death penalty:California. Voters rejected Proposition 62, which would have repealed the09
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Last execution in Lebanon, coastal town of Tabarja, 1998The murder of 24-year-old university student Roy Hamoush on his birthday on June 7 sparked a new wave of calls from politicians and Lebanese to reinstate the death penalty. 3 days later, 17 families of
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TOKYO: Police have charged a former gang boss on death row with the murder of a man in 1996, his second indictment for murder since the finalization of his conviction over a fatal shooting rampage in 2003, police sources said.Osamu Yano, the 68-year-old former head of a group
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William C. Morva was executed by injection Thursday night for the capital murders of an unarmed security guard and a deputy sheriff during an escape in Montgomery County in 2006.Morva, 35, a former Chesterfield County resident whose lawyers said suffered from a chronic psychotic disorder, was06
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Thomas RandolphFor more than nine years, she waited for punishment for the man who ordered her mother dead and executed the hitman.“It’s been way too long,” Colleen Beyer said. “And it’s hurt every day.”On Wednesday, a jury decided that Thomas Randolph, 62, should be put to death for having a05
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As long as asbestos remains in school buildings children and staff are at risk of entirely preventable illnesses.The first national conference addressing the issue of how to protect children and staff from the dangers of asbestos in schools and colleges was held at the Hillscourt Conference05
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SEPANG: A drug mule from India was not lucky on his sixth visit to Malaysia as he was caught for attempting to smuggle 5.15kg of methamphetamine drugs hidden in his luggage bag today.Kuala Lumpur International Airport's (KLIA) Customs director Datuk Hamzah Sundang said the 55-year-old from Chennai04
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Four prisoners were reportedly executed on the morning of Monday July 3. Iran Human Rights (JULY 3 2017): On Monday July 3, three prisoners were reportedly hanged at Isfahan Central Prison on drug related charges, and a prisoner was reportedly hanged at Zahedan Central Prison on murder charges10
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A once in a generation opportunity?The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, gave her first major speech on domestic abuse at Women’s Aid 2017 National Conference at the University of Warwick recently, and outlined the transformative ambitions of the government’s Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill.She09
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 8 2017): Four prisoners were reportedly hanged at Urmia's central prison on drug related charges. According to close sources, the prisoners were executed on the morning of Saturday July 8. Iran Human Rights has obtained the names of the prisoners: Khalil Mousavi Kousi09
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A senior Iranian judicial official has publicly defended the state's mass executions of political prisoners and extended incarcerations of dissidents in the 1980s.In an interview on July 2, 2017 with Tasnim, a news agency that maintains close relations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps09
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Ronald PhillipsCondemned child killer Ronald Phillips has a date slated with the death chamberRonald Phillips, age 43, has his third date with death. He is, now, scheduled for execution by lethal injection on July 26.On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit gave the09
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A senior Facebook official met with Pakistan's interior minister on Friday to discuss a demand that the company prevent blasphemous content or be blocked.The meeting comes after a Pakistani counter-terrorism court sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for making blasphemous comments on Facebook08
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LAHORE: A data analysis by Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a non-government organisation working for prisoners’ rights, shows a total of 465 prisoners have been executed since the country lifted moratorium on the executions in December 2014. The organisation regretted that such a high number of the06
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William MorvaWilliam C. Morva is scheduled to be executed Thursday night in Virginia, after supporters failed to convince Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) that Morva’s mental illness merited clemency and a life sentence in the 2006 murders of a sheriff’s deputy and an unarmed hospital security06
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Iran Human Rights (JULY 6 2017): On the morning of Wednesday July 5, eight prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison.According to close sources, the prisoners were likely executed on murder charges.Iran Human Rights has obtained the names of four of these prisoners: Ghahreman
Two United Nations human rights experts are appealing to Gov. Terry McAuliffe to halt Thursday's scheduled execution by injection of William C. Morva.Lawyers for Morva, 35, are seeking clemency from the governor arguing he suffers from delusional disorder and at the time of the slayings believed05
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An Austin-based writer's quest to learn his grandfather's story leads to death row — and a little-known series of experiments that involved giving hallucinogens to inmates in the early 1960s.Editor's note: In this special contribution to The Texas Tribune, Austin writer Ben Hartman tells the story04
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The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence for Huang Lin-kai (黃麟凱), who was convicted of the double murder of his former girlfriend and her mother, saying the “enormity of his crimes” preclude any chances of rehabilitation.Yesterday’s ruling was the first time this year that the Supreme