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A woman, four Baluchis and eight Kurds were among those executed The total number of those executed since the beginning of September amounts to 75 The Iranian regime hanged at least 27 prisoners in three days, September 27-29, 2016, in Gohardasht, Orumiyeh, Minab and Khorrambad prisons.
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Eight prisoners, including a woman, were reportedly executed on drug charges at Darya, Urmia's central prison (West Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran).Iran Human Rights (SEPT 30 2016): According to a report by the unofficial news agency, HRANA, Iranian authorities hanged eight prisoners at Urmia's30
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Women’s Sport Week runs from 3 – 9 October 2016.Women’s Sport Week is an opportunity for everybody involved with playing, delivering, leading or working in sport to celebrate, raise awareness and increase the profile of women’s sport throughout the UK.The objective of Women’s Sport Week is to
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the 1st of 2 death penalty cases in this year's term, the share of Americans who support the death penalty for people convicted of murder is now at its lowest point in more than 4
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Philippine President Rodrigo DutertePhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has compared his anti-drug campaign to the Holocaust, saying he would kill as many addicts as Hitler did Jews."Hitler massacred three million Jews... there's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them," he29
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The FCO funded training for hundreds of prison guards at Bahrain’s death row jail, where an innocent man faces imminent execution after ‘confessing’ under torture, a new report by anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas (NI-CO), a state-owned Belfast29
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Suspects charged for the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year old schoolgirlappear in court in the Indonesian city of Curup on August 4, 2016.An Indonesian court on
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Alleged Australian child sex abuser Peter Scully (center)Bringing back a flawed system to kill a rotten individual means that we dispense with the individual but are stuck with the systemThere have been calls to reintroduce the death penalty in the Philippines as the
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“Unsafe abortion is still killing tens of thousands women around the world” UN rights experts warn.Speaking ahead of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, a group of United Nations human rights experts called on States across the world to repeal restrictive abortion27
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What is it to walk a line of uncertainty, to experience a bardo?On 8 October the Feminist Library in London is running an audio walk to rediscover the lost words of women.Guided by a Librarian and an Open Book the walkers will make their way along the foreshore of the Thames, into the romance27
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Dylann RoofThe 1st of some 3,000 potential jurors in the Dylan Roof death penalty trial began reporting Monday to the U.S. District courthouse in downtown Charleston.Jurors were summoned, some 80 at a time, before U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, whose questions were aimed at weeding out those who
An Alabama death row inmate says the courts should allow him to argue that getting shot would be a less painful way to die than enduring the state’s current execution protocol.In a filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsLINCOLN, NE - State Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said today after a special Legislative hearing on the Department of Corrections discussing the cost of Nebraska prisons, that he appreciates the Ricketts Administration finally30
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Is there evidence of a hidden civil war in Britain today?‘Hidden Civil War’ is a month-long programme – running from 30 September until 30 October 2016 – of events and exhibitions in different parts of Newcastle upon Tyne that expose, collate and present evidence of a Hidden Civil War in30
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska repeal of the death penaltyThe 3 bishops in charge of the 375,000 Catholics in 350 Nebraska parishes have officially come out as opponents of the death penalty, as the issue takes center stage with a statewide vote
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UN Women launches flagship programme initiative to collect data about women’s lives.Building on commitments made in May this year on 21 September, during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, UN Women launched a new public-private partnership called “Making Every Woman and29
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Dylann RoofSome 748 prospective jurors in the upcoming Dylann Roof federal death penalty trial have been picked to go on to a second, more intensive, phase of jury screening that will begin Nov. 7.The 748 who survived the initial screening process this week were picked over a 2 1/2 day
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Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Eight prisoners sentenced to death for murder and Moharebeh (enmity against God) charges were reportedly hanged at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran) on Wednesday September 28.According to close sources, on Thursday September 22, eleven29
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Iranian human rights and anti-death penalty lawyer Narges MohammadiAn Iranian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 16-year prison sentence for a prominent Iranian human rights advocate.Narges Mohammadi had been sentenced in May on charges of violating national security and acting against the
Dubai: Two brothers have been sentenced to death for killing their brother-in-law by choking him with a plastic rope after he married their sister without the family’s consent.A Pakistani man, F.A., who remains at large, lured his countryman brother-in-law, M.T., to discuss their family dispute in27
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All forms of so called honour-based violence are abuse regardless of the motivation.Youth for Change, IKWRO and Not in my Classroom have joined together to run the very first National Schools’ Conference on Combatting “Honour” Based Violence for safeguarding professionals, teachers, school
Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison, IranIran Human Rights has discovered that Iranian authorities executed 17 prisoners at Vakilabad Prison about two weeks ago on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 27 2016): 17 prisoners sentenced to death on drug related charges were reportedly hanged at26
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities on Monday executed an Ethiopian housemaid convicted of killing the child of her employer more than 3 years ago, the Interior Ministry said.The ministry noted in a statement that the execution was carried out after the death
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“If we help, we invite trouble. If we don’t, we invite shame.”Fifty women leave everything behind to board a boat in North Africa and flee across the Mediterranean.They are escaping forced marriage in their homeland, and, hoping for protection and assistance, seeking asylum in30
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Yusef Salaam, left, is led away by a detective after being arrestedin Central Park for allegedly attacking Trisha Meili.In 1989 five young black men were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging
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Saudi Arabia told a UN committee last week that it does not sentence children to death, despite submitting written evidence in which it admitted people can be executed for crimes committed aged 15, anti-death penalty charity Reprieve has found.The Saudi delegation told the UN’s child rights29
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The forgotten story of Mozart’s genius sister.Little Matchstick Factory‘s The Other Mozart is the true, forgotten story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus.She was a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother, to equal acclaim, but her work29
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The ACLU says Attorney General Tim Fox has some explaining to do.Confronted with a challenge to the state's lethal injection cocktail, the Department of Justice leaned on a controversial medical expert last year to argue the sedative it planned to use to kill 2 death row inmates would work as29
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Seven prisoners were recently executed in southern Iran on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (SEPT 29 2016): Seven prisoners sentenced to death for drug related offenses were reportedly hanged at Minab Central Prison (Hormozgan province, southern Iran).According to close sources, the28
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Women’s groups suggest ways for ensuring the protection and safety of refugee women and girls.World leaders gathered for two major summits on the global refugee and migration crisis recently. One was the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants co-chaired by the governments of Jordan and Ireland on28
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Pakistan says it is seeking ways to limit the scope of the death penalty, amid fears for a mentally ill prisoner who faces hanging as early as next week.Speaking on Monday at an event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the first secretary of Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN
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"A positive image must be maintained. I urge the use of the soft-powerapproach be strengthened through cultural diplomacy, the promotion ofIndonesian cuisine and also promotion through sports." - Jokowi (no kidding)President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has urged the Cabinet to enhance the soft-power27
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"Supreme Court justices dismissed the appeal, claiming that a largeproportion of Pakistani prisoners suffer from mental illness."Pakistan's Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal brought by lawyers for a severely mentally ill prisoner, who now
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Cartoon by David Sipress, September 26, 2016, The New YorkerThere has not been a liberal majority of Justices since Nixon was President. If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will change.History, as a rule, unfolds slowly at the Supreme Court. The Justices serve for decades. The cases take years