This man was thrown off a high-rise buildingby ISIS just for being gayNew shocking pictures have emerged of a man being thrown to his death from a high-rise building by ISIS for the ‘crime’ of being gay.The blindfolded
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James E. Holmes and attorneyFinal cost of James Holmes' trial in the Aurora theater shooting likely won't ever be knownJailing, evaluating and prosecuting the man who committed the Aurora movie theater shooting cost taxpayers at least $3 million, but the final expense of one of the mostly Leggi20
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World governments at a UN meeting on the global drug problem were urged Tuesday to move away from repression, abolish the death penalty for drug offenses and step up treatment.In the 1st such meeting in nearly 20 years, the UN General Assembly adopted a document that marks a shift away from
Prisoner advocates say they're concerned a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice social media policy could prevent them from relaying information about their clients on the inside.Prison reform activists are concerned that a new state social media policy could be used to infringe on the free20
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How could anyone have known that fracking and its dreadful impacts would not be properly debated in Parliament?By Kate Styles.Let us make no bones about this. Nanas believe that FRACKING is the greatest threat that we as a modern society face.From the thousands of extra lorry movements and20
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David Cameron and Joko WidodoBritish business received a near £1 billion boost on the first day of a visit by Indonesia’s president, as Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure to raise the country’s human rights record.President Joko Widodo held talks with the Prime Minister in Downing
How does your annual income compareto the cost of a California death-row inmate?Click HERE to find out- Report an error, an omission:Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per19
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Iwao taking a walk with his sister Hideko What would you be like if you'd spent the last half-century isolated in a tiny room, not knowing if you were going to make it to the end of the day alive? That is the
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Stalking is not funny, romantic or acceptable. It is sinister, distressing and illegal.If a person’s behaviour towards you is persistent and clearly unwanted, causing you fear, harassment or anxiety, then it is stalking and you should not have to live with it.Did you know:Stalking affects 118
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According to reports from inside Iran, the mullahs' regime on Thursday hanged 5 men and 2 women in a prison in Birjand, north-east Iran.2 of the victims were identified as Mohammad Niazi and Moheb Rahmati. The names of the other prisoners were not given. They were accused of drugs-related18
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Earlier this week, Air France announced that female flight attendants can opt out of flights on the carrier’s new route to Tehran after some said they didn't want to cover their hair upon arriving in Iran.Now, Air France’s gay flight attendants are attempting to use the momentum generated Leggi16
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European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Tehran.NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged three prisoners in a jail in Rasht, northern Iran, as the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is in Tehran to build greater trade ties
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Hamas execution of Hani Abu Alyian in Gaza on October 2, 2013The European Union released a statement earlier today in which it condemned the military courts in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for sentencing to death 5 convicts accused
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Virginia lawmakers have today voted to pass a controversial bill designed to shroud the state's execution procedure in secrecy and shield the state and its drug suppliers from the Freedom of Information Act.The bill, tabled by Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, proposes using secret batches of20
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That’s one trillion euros not spent on schools, hospitals and other vital public services.The European Commission announced new proposals to tackle tax dodging by multinational corporations recently, including public country-by-country reporting and a common list of tax havens – proposals
The first U.N. special session to address global drug policy in nearly 20 years bristled with tension Tuesday over the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses, as countries wrestled over whether to emphasize criminalization and punishment or health and human rights.The outcome document20
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Indonesian police personnel getting ready ahead of the executionof eight death row inmates on Nusakambangan island in April 2015.Cilacap Police are preparing security measures for the execution of several death row inmates
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Indonesia's Joko Widodo and Germany's Angela MerkelShe was the only woman on the stage. On either side stood uniformed men, their stern gaze bearing down on her. The 60-year-old woman from Indonesia's Aceh province had been dragged out in front of a crowd to be
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Lily ‘reported every single incident, collected evidence – but the police failed to join up the dots’.At the start of National Stalking Awareness Week a campaign has been launched calling for tougher measures to be taken against stalkers.Stalking is a pattern of repeated and persistent18
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Chinese authorities have ruled that those found guilty of high-sum embezzlement or bribe-taking could now face execution. The move is part of China's anti-corruption campaign, but the punishment will not be mandatory.Graft cases involving an "extraordinarily huge value" of three million yuan18
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Cameron Todd Willingham awaiting his execution on Texas death rowWhat Cameron Todd Willingham lost - his life, taken by the state - can never be restored. But, thankfully, there is some effort to make sure his case is accorded some measure of
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An interview with Katie Lawrence.By Natasha Turner.I’m sitting in a café at McLaren headquarters with Katie Lawrence.Surrounding us are some of the fastest cars in the world.They are displayed on glassy pristine floors under meticulous lighting. Men walk by in smart suits or mucky16
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonHundreds of ecstasy pills and 15 small packages of crystal methamphetamine or shabu-shabu have been seized during a raid at Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali. The raid, conducted by a joint security team comprising personnel from the Law and Human Rights Ministry, National
Mauritania must quash the death sentence handed down to a blogger for apostasy and release him unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of his appeal court hearing in the south-western city of Nouadhibou tomorrow.Mohamed Mkhaitir, 33, was sentenced to death in December 2014, after
Typical 3-room cell in Skien prison, Norway, where Breivik is incarcerated.Norway violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by keeping him in isolation in prison after being sentenced for killing 77 people in twin attacks in 2011, a Norwegian court ruled on Wednesday.Breivik
Air France crewGay Air France attendants want to be excused from working flights to Iran, because Iran applies the death penalty to gay people. It’s yet another exposure of multiculturalism’s contradictions.Air France is about to resume flights to Iran after an eight-year hiatus, and in an20
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BEIJING — In a sign of China’s increasingly aggressive efforts to combat espionage and other security threats, the government said it had sentenced a former computer technician to death for selling 150,000 classified documents to foreign spies, according to state media reports on Tuesday.The man20
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Indonesia's BNN: 'a huge increase in drug users over the last year'Despite heavy criticism from the human rights activists and the international community, Indonesia executed 14 people in 2015. All had been convicted of drug-related crimes. Nearly a year after the last round of executions,Indonesia
President Barack ObamaPresident Obama must use a trip to Saudi Arabia this week to help three Saudi juveniles who face execution after they were arrested for attending protests, international human rights organization Reprieve has said.Mr Obama is due to travel to Saudi Arabia today (19th) on what
Joko Widodo and Angela MerkelIndonesia's president is defending his country's use of the death penalty for drug offenses, arguing that drug abuse constitutes an emergency.Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and more than 130 people on death row, mostly for drug crimes. Authorities recently
Virginia's electric chairVirginia lawmakers are set to return to the Capitol this week to debate how the state should put inmates to death, how it should structure a new economic development initiative, and whether the Old Dominion should tweak its new ethics laws.Wednesday is the so-called veto18
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Angola's Death RowSensors have been installed on the death-row tiers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to monitor summertime heat indexes that several ailing condemned killers successfully claimed violate their constitutional rights and increase their risk of heatstroke or even death16
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NCRI – A group of resilient political prisoners in Iran’s notorious Evin and Gohardasht prisons have written to the Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi pointing out that at least eight prisoners were executed in Iran while he was visiting Tehran earlier in the week to reestablish trade ties with16
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Joshua BishopJoshua Bishop, who died by lethal injection March 31, was remembered by his faith community, friends and supporters at a funeral Mass celebrated April 12 at St. Pius X Church in Conyers by Father Tom Zahuta.Bishop, who became a Catholic in prison, regularly attended Mass and other