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Hundreds of thousands of pounds of UK funding for international counter-narcotics operations may be contributing to higher numbers of death sentences and executions abroad, international human rights organisation Reprieve has found. Reprieve has written to the Home Office - the lead department on international drugs policy - to highlight new evidence
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Alexander Lukashenko is the President of Belarus, in office since 20 July 1994.The 2019 European Games will take place in the Belarusian capital Minsk.The Netherlands was originally chosen to stage the second edition of the multi-sports event, but pulled
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Florida's death chamberFor the 2nd time this year, a court has ruled that Florida's death penalty statute is unconstitutional.This time, it was the Florida Supreme Court, handing down a pair of historic rulings on Oct. 14 that shifted Florida into the legal mainstream and are expected Leggi
Ohio's death chamberOhio is moving its death row for the third time in little over a decade, this time because of the growing number of aging inmates serving death sentences, state prison officials said Friday.Death row will go from Chillicothe in southern Ohio to the Toledo Correctional20
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Public figures and the media have a duty to “explicitly reject hate speech”.The British government could make progress on many of the recent United Nations demands to improve race equality in the UK in just one year, the head of the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination20
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)DAMMAM — A man convicted of kidnapping and raping a minor girl was executed in Qatif on Tuesday.A source from the Ministry of Interior said 33-year-old Saad Al-Shimrani, a Saudi national, was charged with kidnapping and raping the 14-year-old
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But it remains to be seen if the Army has in fact learnt any lessons.Following the threat of legal action by the family, the Royal Military Police (RMP) has formally apologised to the family of Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement for failing to properly investigate the allegation of rape she made two19
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The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of 2 death row convicts - Vikram Singh and Jasvir Singh, who were sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old boy after demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh from his father.The bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and18
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Media behaviour, sensationalism and a failure to uphold the presumption of innocence are major issues.The End Violence Against Women coalition of UK women’s organisations who work to end violence against women and girls in all its forms has written an open letter to Cliff Richard, Paul
Source: New Zealand War Graves ProjectAn Otago soldier executed for mutiny is to be remembered this year at the Shot at Dawn Memorial in England.Jack Braithwaite, of Dunedin, volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in May 1915.He served in Egypt and was later
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Hamas militants grab a Palestinian suspected of collaborating withIsrael before being executed in Gaza City in August 2014.Hamas-run court says 54-year-old man will be hanged for allegedly providing Jewish state with information since
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Oregon Governor Kate BrownThe governor plans to continue a state moratorium on capital punishment as long as she remains in office, a spokesman said Monday morning. "Gov. Kate Brown has made clear her personal opposition to the death penalty and support of the current moratorium on Oregon
Saudi Arabia: Darkness at Noon3 Saudi juveniles remain on death row, 1 year after the UK began seeking 'assurances' that they would not be executed.Abdullah Hasan al-Zaher, Ali al Nimr, and Dawood al-Marhoon were aged 15, 17 and 17 respectively when they were arrested for
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Barbados: "A lot of our problems are societal problems."A recent study by this country's Criminal Justice Unit shows that 80 % of Barbadians support the retention of the death penalty on this country's statute books.However, Kim Ramsay, a senior researcher with the Government-run
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Iraqi-led forces push toward Mosul, Iraq.(CNN) ISIS rounded up and killed 284 men and boys as Iraqi-led coalition forces closed in on Mosul, the terror group's last stronghold in Iraq, an Iraqi intelligence source told CNN.Those killed Thursday and Friday had been used as human shields
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A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests how Arizona carries out the death penalty extracted promises in court from the state Wednesday that it won't use the sedative midazolam in future executions.Lawyers for the state are seeking to dismiss the lawsuit's claim that midazolam can't ensure20
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Gregory Paul LawlerGeorgia on Wednesday executed a man who opened fire on Atlanta police with an AR-15 rifle in 1997, killing one officer and critically wounding another after they had given his intoxicated girlfriend a ride home.Gregory Paul Lawler, 63, was scheduled to be executed by injectionGregory LawlerJust an hour after hearing from those who wanted to see Atlanta cop killer Gregory Lawler executed, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his request for clemency.Lawler, 63, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday at 7 p.m. for the Oct. 12,1979, murder of Atlanta police19
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President Joko WidodoIndonesian President Joko Widodo has defended tough new penalties such as chemical castration and the death penalty for tackling sex crimes. He said there would be "no compromise" for child sex offenders.Indonesian President Joko Widodo has defended his government's18
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Belarus President Alexander LukashenkoA box of clothes arrives on a doorstep in a European country just over 1,620km (1,000 miles) from the UK.It contains the belongings of a man executed by the state.They will not know when it happened or where his body is buried - they simply
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In a concerning statistical jump, in less than 3 weeks, more than 56 prisoners with different charges were hanged in 10 different cities of Iran.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in 17 days, 56 executions were registered in Shahrood, Gorgan, Uremia, Minab17
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Bank signs up to TUC’s charter for helping terminally ill workers.Santander Bank recently added its name to a now growing list of businesses supporting a new charter aimed at helping employees who become terminally ill at work.Dying to Work has been taken forward by the Trade Unions Congress
Glen Bates and his daughter GlenaraCINCINNATI -- Glen Bates was sentenced to death Monday morning, 19 months after his two-year-old daughter was beaten and tortured to death.Hamilton County Judge Megan Shanahan handed down the sentence to the 34-year-old. After a seven-day trial, the jury22
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With public support for the death penalty at its lowest point in more than 4 decades, the U.S. is on track for its fewest executions in a quarter century.So far in 2016, 17 inmates have been executed, according to a database maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center. 3 additional22
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Alabama, Delaware and Florida were in a very small club at the start of 2016, but Alabama now stands alone - last in the nation to embrace a set of rules, deemed unconstitutional elsewhere, that increases the likelihood of a death sentence.All 3 states were the only ones in
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She suffered name-calling, swearing, threats of physical violence and derogatory forms of humour.Last week Birmingham City University criminologist Dr Imran Awan and Dr Irene Zempi, lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, presented research in Parliament highlighting their20
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has today ruled that schizophrenia does not qualify as mental disorder, paving the way for the execution of Imdad Ali who suffers from severe mental illness.In an unprecedented judgement, they claim that schizophrenia is not a permanent condition and varied according to
‘The majority of people in Northern Ireland do not think abortion should be a crime’.A survey carried out recently on behalf of Amnesty International has shown that the majority of people in Northern Ireland – 58 per cent – do not think that abortion should be a crime at all.There is evenA judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out executions is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday over a sedative that was recently abandoned as one of the state's lethal injection drugs.Lawyers for the state are seeking to dismiss the lawsuit's claim that the sedative18
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Or the driver will be expected to drive the train and be responsible for passenger safety.Southern Rail plans to abolish guards on trains and introduce Driver Only Operated trains on nearly all their services through Surrey and Sussex.If they get their way up to 400 guards could lose their18
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a member of the royal family for murder, in a rare case involving one of the thousands of members of the House of Saud.Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to
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Austin MyersShould he be put to death? The actual killer got a life sentenceAustin Myers became the youngest inmate on Ohio's death row 2 years ago after a judge sentenced him to the ultimate punishment for the 2014 murder of Warren County U.S. Navy recruit Justin Back.Now the 21-year-old Leggi17
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Prostitution, whether forced or “voluntary,” cannot fit [any] definition of decent work.In September and October 2016, UN Women ran a consultation on “sex work, the sex trade and prostitution”.This is the text of the submission that Nordic Model Now! made to that consultation jointly with 13
A Muslim woman is caned in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for breaking sharia law.Seven men and six women were publicly caned in the front yard of the Al Ikhlas Mosque in Gampong Keuramat, Kuta Alam subdistrict of Banda Aceh on
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