The government is still failing to protect and uphold human rights in the country despite a number of laws guaranteeing the rights of all citizens, which according to Jakarta-based human rights watchdog Imparsial is rooted in a lack of focus and commitment.Imparsial executive director Al Araf said the absence of human rights
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The director of the public defender's office that represented Alabama Death Row inmate Ronald Bert Smith, who was executed Thursday night, believes the execution was "botched" and that Smith felt pain as he died.The Alabama Department of Corrections disagreed and said the execution went according09
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Lawmakers are up for more discussions when it comes to passing the proposed death penalty bill in Congress.One part of that bill is the mode of execution to the person convicted of a heinous crime.Under the bill, death penalty may be executed either by hanging, firing squad, or lethal
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Reinstating the death penalty was imposed on the political agenda by the Turkish leadership after the bloody coup attempt of July 15.The slogan "We want executions back" was first chanted by a group among the people who rushed to the Istanbul airport on that night to welcome and defend President08
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Indonesia's AG HM Prasetyo: "Executions not a pleasant thing"President Joko Widodo brought back the regular use of the death penalty under his administration and his time in office has seen three rounds of executions and the state-sanctioned killings of 18 people, all convicted
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William SallieA Georgia man who shot and killed his father-in-law before abducting his estranged wife and her sister became the ninth man executed by the state this year.William Sallie, 50, died by lethal injection at 10:05 p.m. Tuesday at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in
In the midst of celebrations, good cheer, and that warm charity of spirit only the holidays bring, oft expressed as "peace on earth and goodwill towards all," Georgia and Alabama are instead ritualizing killing.If it feels like I just wrote a column about Georgia's shameful record on executions
Shia Muslims face a heavy crackdown by Saudi authorities.A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced 15 people to death for spying for Iran.They were among 32 people - comprising 30 members of the kingdom's Shia Muslim minority, an Iranian national and an Afghan
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Syarhey KhymyaleuskiThe European Union says it has confirmed that Belarus carried out a total of 3 executions during the month of November -- raising the total number of executions in the former Soviet republic during 2016 to 4.European foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on December 102
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‘We know that women are disproportionately affected by violence at work.’Trade union activists have been lobbying for a binding International Labour Organization (ILO) convention against violence in the workplace for many years.Then at the end of 2015, the ILO finally announced that a debate
Nie Shubin was killed by firing squad in 1995 at the age of 20 after beingfound guilty of killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province.A Chinese man has had his conviction for rape and murder overturned, 21
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‘The Salters proved that moral values and integrity could walk hand in hand with leadership.’A new play about pioneers Ada and Alfred Salter is heading to south-east London after a long battle for funding by its writer and director, Alison Mead.Politic Man tells the true story of Ada and Alf
Dylann RoofOn Wednesday morning, jurors filed into a Charleston, S.C., courtroom to hear opening statements in the trial of Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old charged with federal hate crimes after the massacre last year at a historic church just a mile from the courthouse. Prosecutors outlined the09
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Ronald SmithRonald Smith executed for 1994 capital murderRonald Smith was executed Thursday night for committing capital murder in 1994. He was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m.Media witnesses said Smith gasped and coughed for 13 minutes of execution, which began at 10:25 and ended at 11:05.He was
Theresa May has apparently declined to raise the issue of the death penalty for juveniles and political protestors in Saudi Arabia, despite emphasising in a speech today (7 December 2016) that the UK is the Gulf's "partner" in reform and of the "embedding" of international norms.Theresa May
State Supreme Court Justices didn't filter their comments much during a hearing Wednesday that could let those currently on death row live the rest of their life in prison.Earlier this year, the court ruled Delaware's capital punishment system unconstitutional because juries weren't the ones06
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"Crowds including children were then ordered to stone the body."The terror group has reportedly executed hundreds of men for having same-sex sexual relations.Images of a Syrian man being thrown to his death after being accused of homosexuality have been released by Islamic State today (December
Florida: A drug never before used for executionsIn a move that would be certain to spur more litigation over the state's already embattled death penalty, Florida corrections officials appear to be planning what could be a dramatic change to the triple-drug lethal injection process --- including the06
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Urgent ActionSiarhei Vostrykau is the last known prisoner on death row in Belarus after the authorities executed the other remaining three prisoners on death row on 5 November.Syarhey Vostrykau is at imminent risk of execution.Background:The European Union says it has confirmed that Belarus05
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Dylann RoofCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- A federal judge has approved the request of the alleged Charleston church shooter to bring back his lawyers, one week after he asked to have them dismissed.In a handwritten request filed on Sunday, 22-year-old Dylann Roof asked U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel to02
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Homage to the dark and compelling drama of Carter’s visual imagination – brutal, surrealist and savage.Angela Carter – one of the most distinctive literary voices of the last 100 years – lived in Bristol from 1960 for nearly a decade.She studied at Bristol University, where she specialised in02
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Robert and Michael visited the White House in 1953 in a failedbid to get President Eisenhower to stop their parents’ executions.WASHINGTON -- The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after pleading unsuccessfully to spare her life, in a01
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Dylann RoofAttorney General Loretta Lynch has a fleeting moment in time, before Dylann Roof’s show trial falls into deeper lunacy, to exercise strength, grace, and sound moral judgment on behalf of the United States government – by pulling the plug.“Ms. Lynch chose to seek the death penalty after09
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Texas' death house at 'The Walls' Prison, where the state of Texas carriesout its executions. The death chamber is located at the far end of this corridor.It was seen as more humane and relatively painless, but that's not certainWhen Charles Brooks Jr. lay down on
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Al Hussein pointed out that the Philippines passed Republic Act 9346 in 2006, abolishing capital punishment. It also ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which aims to abolish the death penalty."When a State ratifies the Second08
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SINGAPORE - Most Singaporeans are in favour of the death penalty, but the support wavered when faced with different scenarios, a new survey has found.Fewer people back the mandatory death penalty, and this support is weaker for drug trafficking and firearms offences where no death or injury has07
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 7 2016): A prisoner was reportedly hanged at Dizel Abad Prison (Kermanshah province, western Iran) on Tuesday December 6 on murder charges, and a prisoner was reportedly hanged at Salmas Central Prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran) on Wednesday December 7 on06
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Babak ZanjaniIran Human Rights (DEC 5 2016): The death sentence for Babak Zanjani, the prime suspect in a high profile financial corruption case, has been confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.Gholamreza Ansari, a senior official at the Supreme Court, confirmed the news to the state-run news agency06
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Tortured into ‘confession’, convicted in a secretive trial: Ali Mohamad al-NimrTheresa May must urge Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to end child death sentencesThe Prime Minister has been urged to use meetings today with Saudi and Kuwaiti leaders to call on both countries to end the use of the death05
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The European Union has been urged to urgently clarify whether it is helping to fund Iranian anti-narcotics programmes linked to mass executions.In a letter seen by The Independent, human rights charity Reprieve raises concerns that as part of a "new page" in EU-Iran relations announced earlier05
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Tomorrow, the State of Georgia intends to execute William Sallie, who was convicted of killing a man in 1990. It would be Georgia's 9th execution this year, a modern state record and nearly twice the previous high-water mark of 5 executions, set 1st in 1987 and again
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Iranian filmmaker Keywan KarimiIranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi who was jailed on November 23 after being summoned to start serving his prison sentence is at risk of receiving his flogging sentence of 223 lashes, Amnesty International said in an Urgent Action appeal on December 1.Karimi, from01
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This is not acceptable, forty years after the introduction of legislation in Northern Ireland.Half of the women who responded to an Equality Commission investigation into the employment experiences of pregnant workers and mothers in Northern Ireland believe that their career opportunities have
Delaware's death chamberCourt to hear arguments over whether a ruling to end the death penalty should be applied to those still on death row.Even though Delaware Supreme Court found the state's death penalty law unconstitutional in August, the debate over whether 12 men on death row should still