Two unidentified prisoners were hanged in northern Iran on unknown charges.Iran Human Rights (AUG 6 2016): Two unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged on unknown charges at Choubindar, Qazvin's central prison (northern Iran).According to unofficial source, HRANA, the executions were carried out on the morning of Wednesday August 3.
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged four prisoners on Wednesday, a day after more than two dozen Sunni political prisoners were mass executed by the regime prompting international condemnation.Three of the victims were hanged on Wednesday, August 3, in a prison in the city of Saqqez, in the05
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human rights activists on Thursday demanded clemency for a Senegalese maid who was trafficked to Saudi Arabia and may face the death penalty after being charged with killing her employer.Mbayang Diop, 22, was arrested in June, weeks after arriving in the
Mass execution in Iran (file photo)Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, the Attorney General of Iran, has confirmed the execution of 20 Sunni prisoners at Karaj's Rajai Shahr Prison on Tuesday August 2.Iran Human Rights (AUG 3 2016): In an exclusive interview with Iranian state run media IRIB, Mohammad04
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Turkey's parliament has no immediate plans to reintroduce the death penalty following last month's failed military coup, a senior MP from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has told EUobserver."It is not on our agenda at the moment, it is not on the agenda of the parliament," Sena Nur
President Obama granted clemency to a record 214 inmates on Wednesday, far surpassing his previous single-day record, as part of an ongoing effort to release federal inmates serving prison terms deemed to be unduly harsh.To date, Obama has commuted the sentences of 562 federal inmates, more than03
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"A majority of Cubans wants the death penalty abolished."At the beginning of July, Havana Times put forward a new initiative: to find out what Cubans think about different national and/or global issues. As far as we know, only the government and government institutions carry out surveys; the03
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President Erdogan said he would sign a reinstatement of the death penaltyif parliament voted for it.Tentatively, cautiously, we can say that Turkey is dropping talk of reinstating capital punishmentThere are very few aspects of the
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Report calls for an integrated approach to prevent gender-based violence.On 6 June, the international NGO and two-time Nobel Peace Prize winner, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), launched a report showing how effective implementation of arms control treaties can02
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Dylann RoofLawyers for Dylann Roof, the accused Charleston church shooter, filed a motion to challenge the constitutionality of the federal death penalty Monday. Roof's lawyers argue that "the federal death penalty constitutes a legally prohibited, arbitrary, cruel and unusual punishment01
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The 3rd batch of executions during President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration early on Friday saw 4 of the scheduled 14 inmates executed before firing squads and this latest round of killings has sparked criticism of the government over its negligence in conforming to the law in conducting the01
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Peter GardnerThe New Zealander arrested in China in 2014 for allegedly trying to leave the country with 30 kilograms of methamphetamine is still in jail awaiting a verdict.Peter Gardner has been in a Chinese jail cell for over a year, after he was stopped at Guangzhou Baiyan International Airport07
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NCRI - Germany's foreign ministry has condemned the mass execution of Sunni political prisoners earlier this week and the hanging of a juvenile offender last month in Iran.In a statement on Friday, August 5, Bärbel Kofler, Federal Government Human Rights Commissioner at the Federal Foreign Office04
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‘The resounding importance of having a female generation to both honour and draw inspiration from’.The first Women’s Peace Crusade march took place in Glasgow on 23 July 1916 .The demonstrators marched from George Square to Glasgow Green, drawing crowds of thousands.Helen Crawfurd – a
'Wonderful Indonesia' campaign boosts tourism industry. Executions arecarefully left out of the picture, except on this DPN-edited campaign poster.The government’s efforts to promote tourism in the archipelago with its Wonderful Indonesia campaign have had a positive impact, the president director04
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Ernest Lee JohnsonAttorneys for a man sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder filed a new complaint in federal court on Monday, arguing again that a medical condition will cause pain and suffering if he is executed but offering a more detailed alternative.Because of a brain defect caused03
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Indonesia: Stop executions!Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto has stressed that the government would not consider abolishing the death penalty, and therefore there was no need to evaluate prevailing laws."This is our law. Despite some pressures on us, we have our03
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More than 50 organizations linked to the Black Lives Matter movement came together to draft its 1st policy platform, released Monday."We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform," Michaela Brown, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Bloc, an organization that worked on the platform, said. "As03
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Iran Human Rights (AUG 2 2016): At least 10 Sunni prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prion of Karaj (west of Tehran) early morning on Tuesday August 2.Among these prisoners is Shahram Ahmadi, who was sentenced to death in an unfair trial that lasted only a
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Solving poverty will not be quick or easy. But it is possible.Dealing with the effects of poverty costs the UK £78 billion a year, £1,200 for every person, new research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has revealed.A new report, ‘Counting the cost of UK poverty’, produced by Heriot01
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German philosopher Emmanuel Kant writes that judicial punishment can never be used as a means to promote some other good for civil society since a human being can never be instrumentalized merely as a means to another’s end. That means that to punish someone for the purpose of deterrence is to use
Iran's bloodstained record of sending juvenile offenders to the gallows, routinelyafter grossly unfair trials, makes an absolute mockery of juvenile justice.The Iranian regime plans to hang a teenager later this week for a crime he allegedly committed at the age
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Oklahoma death chamberAfter a string of execution mistakes and resignations, the state is replacing the personnel key to carrying out the death penalty in Oklahoma. But state officials say they view execution experience as "immaterial" in the hiring. posted on Jul. 29, 2016, at 11:16 a.m.After a05
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John ThompsonNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit is leading a call for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate practices at the New Orleans district attorney’s office and look for other wrongful convictions and civil rights04
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Ending FGM means involving FGM-affected communities – and needs funding.The first ever FGM figures in England were released recently showing that there have been nearly 6,000 new cases in the last year and that a further 65,000 girls under the age of 13 are at risk of the procedure.Local04
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July 29, 2016: North Korea publicly executed six officials in charge of supervision of its workers overseas in May following the defection of 13 workers at a North Korean-run restaurant in China a month earlier, a local Pyongyang watcher said. "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered six03
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Student Hassan Afshar is first child offender executed in country this year Concerns that ‘rape’ offence may in reality have been consensual gay sexAmnesty International has revealed that a teenager has been executed in Iran after being convicted of the rape of another boy, the first confirmed
Rodrigo DuterteThe restoration of the death penalty and the lowering of the age of criminal liability from 14 to nine years old may take effect in a year's time in order to sustain the success-bound anti-criminality program of the Duterte administration.Speaker Pantaleon "Bebot" Alvarez said that03
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At least 52 youths under the age of 32 are awaiting the implementation of their execution sentences in Greater Tehran Prison (Fashafouyeh Prison), according to reports from the prison.Among these death-row inmates, 32 are imprisoned in Section 1 and another 20 are incarcerated in Section 2 of the03
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Delaware Supreme Court“Delaware‘s current death penalty statute violates the Sixth Amendment role of the jury,” the state’s high court rules in a 3-2 decision striking down the entire death penalty law.WASHINGTON — Delaware’s death penalty law is unconstitutional in light of a U.S. Supreme Court
This piece was published in partnership with the Influence.One afternoon, Donnie Calhoun, owner of Calhoun Compounding Pharmacy in Anniston, Alabama—"Compounding for Life's Problems"—came back from a meeting to find a strange request from the Alabama Department of Corrections. The girl who'd01
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the repealLINCOLN, NE – Republican State Senator Colby Coash said today that Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson’s statement that there is no way to know how long it would take for the Legislature to get the death penalty functioning again should voters01
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The United Nations human rights chief today expressed serious concern that Iraq has created a committee to accelerate implementation of death sentences.The committee, announced by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, has been mandated to identify procedural or legislative delays in implementation of
Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher, Dawood al-MarhoonFears are growing that Saudi Arabia is about to behead a man for crimes committed when he was a juvenile - in violation of both international and Saudi law - triggering calls for the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, to
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