British backpackers Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24.From the moment their bodies were discovered on a Thai beach on 15 September last year, the investigation into the deaths of British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller has been a muddled affair.Information from the police has
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterThe executions of two death row inmates on Friday was a blow to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which only last week reiterated a call for a moratorium on hangings and for a national debate on the matter.In a position paper
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Manama: Saudi Arabia’s prosecution has requested the death penalty for five suspects, four Saudis and one Yemeni, who raided a commercial complex in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.Investigations revealed that the five suspects plotted an armed attack on the commercial facility after they learned that
The Adjustment Center at San Quentin Prison, California.Death penalty supporters got the state’s go-ahead Thursday to collect signatures for a November 2016 ballot measure aimed at speeding up executions, raising the prospect that voters will be asked to choose between toughening California’s death
Long ago in 1992, the aides of Bill Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, knew all about the inability of the governor of Arkansas to keep it in his trousers. The public was let in on the secret when Clinton’s former mistress, a nightclub singer of the type boys’ mothers once warned Leggi24
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Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, right, and Zaw Lin, left, both 22, in December 25.A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 24 2015): Eight men with alleged drug charges were reportedly hanged at Qazvin Central Prison on the morning of Tuesday December 23.According to the press department of the Judiciary in the province of Qazvin, quoting the Public Prosecutor of Qazvin city, the prisoners are23
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Why should anyone pay to work?In November the chancellor, George Osborne, announced the government are going to cut NHS bursaries for student nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, radiotherapists, radiographers, dieticians, operating department practitioners, podiatrists23
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Call for secure and genuinely affordable social housing.The housing and homelessness charity Shelter has said that 109,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales will be in a hostel or temporary accommodation on 25 December this year, 103,430 of them in England.The chief executive of22
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How to solve gender inequality.On Human Rights Day and the final day of the 16 Days of Activism and in one final blog post, Scottish Women’s Aid’s Service Development Officer, Orlaith McAree, put forward one solution to solving gender inequality: challenging patriarchy in schooling.Violence21
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John Kerry, where are women’s voices in the Syria peace talks?By Lisa Davis.The US may be tempted to congratulate itself for wrangling Russia to the table for today’s meeting on Syria’s peace talks. Yet an indispensable party is missing: Syrian women.Today, we face the prospect of a Middle19
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Daesh noir, Daesh blanc. Le premier égorge, tue, lapide, coupe les mains, détruit le patrimoine de l’humanité, et déteste l’archéologie, la femme et l’étranger non musulman. Le second est mieux habillé et plus propre, mais il fait la même chose. L’Etat islamique et l’Arabie saoudite. Dans sa lutte28
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Use of and support for the death penalty continued itssteady decline in the United States in 2015By all measures, use of and support for the death penalty continued its steady decline in the United
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaMillionaires pay blood money in exchange for Pinoy driver’s freedomSAUDI authorities have reportedly released a Filipino driver who was incarcerated for his alleged involvement in a car accident that killed an Indian man after his bosses paid the P2.8 million27
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NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Saturday hanged three men in a prison in Khorramabad, western Iran.The three men were identified as Behrouz Amiri, Rahman Kazemzadeh and Ali Hassanvand.They were hanged at dawn in Parsiloun Prison. All three had been accused of drugs-related charges. They
Colombo: A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government in Colombo said on Wednesday.“We have succeeded in getting the death sentence overturned. Our concern was to make sure that the original sentence was notMyanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, right, and Zaw Lin, left, both 22, in December 25.A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort island last
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Renae LawrenceIndonesian prison officials have recommended Bali Nine drug mule Renae Lawrence has a further two months cut from her sentence.Lawrence, 37, is serving her 20-year sentence in Bali's Bangli Prison, where staff confirmed she had been put forward as one of the inmates to have their23
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Time for a change.The traumatic personal experiences of criminalised people often go unnoticed. Their experiences are ignored, their needs minimised, their support and treatment an afterthought.The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has started providing a space for women’s voices to be23
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“Top-down approaches are dated and untrusted.”A Labour shadow minister has announced she is to travel the country to ask disabled people for their help in designing a 21st-century social security system.Debbie Abrahams, the shadow minister for disabled people, launched her “disability22
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‘She is forced by her husband to carry the surrogate child without bothering about her health’.During a seminar organised by European Women’s Lobby (EWL) members the International Alliance of Women (IAW) in Paris recently, Veena Kohli, president of the Delhi-based All India Women’s Conference21
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Two Bahrainis who were tortured into ‘confessing’ to an attack on police officers in the wake of anti-Government protests last year could be executed at any moment, unless the country’s King pardons them.Husain Moosa and Mohammed Ramadan were arrested in February and March 2014 respectively19
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Gallows at Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Japan on Friday carried out the first execution of an inmate sentenced to death in a lay judge trial following the country’s introduction of the judicial system in 2009, Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki said.Along with Sumitoshi Tsuda, 63, another death row28
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Myanmar migrants Win Zaw Htun, (R), and Zaw Lin, (L), both 22, in Dec. 2015.Army chief calls on Thailand to review evidence against two Burmese migrant workers whose sentencing for murder of British backpackers has sparked anger
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WETHERSFIELD -- Conditions on Connecticut’s death row remain unchanged more than four months after the Connecticut Supreme Court found the state’s death penalty unconstitutional.But Correction Commissioner Scott Semple said he is working to change a policy that requires those inmates to be in27
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Iran Human Rights, December 25, 2015: Two prisoners were hanged in the Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) on December 23, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources in Iran.The prisoners were identified as "Mehdi Khorram" and "Ebrahim Khorram" and were in their 30's. Both the prisoners24
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Attorney General M PrasetyoAttorney General M Prasetyo has stressed that a third round of drug convict executions will be carried out next year.He has yet to add further details with regard to schedule or the number of convicts that the government expects to execute.“The executions will be24
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Iran Human Rights (DEC 22 2015): According to unofficial reports confirmed by Iran Human Rights, on the morning of Saturday December 19, two prisoners were hanged at Zahedan Central Prison.One of the prisoners has been identified as Abdolghani G. Rigi, a 29-year-old man who was jailed on political23
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Why I went to Guantánamo, again.By Frida Berrigan.I have the world’s worst hair cut. It is uneven, hacked and does nothing to flatter my features.For the first few days after I cut it, my hair was also super dirty, sticking straight up with a Pomade of bug spray, sunscreen and Cuban22
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Not while his MEPs keep voting against the national interest.By Glenis Willmott MEP, Leader of Labour’s MEPs.While David Cameron has been trying to dig himself out of a hole of his own making at the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels this week, in Strasbourg his MEPs have been their usual21
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The festive season is also the peak season for domestic abuse…Police Scotland have launched a new domestic abuse campaign highlighting emotional abuse and how abusers control their victims through fear, intimidation and isolation.About 20 per cent of police time is spent tackling domestic
Public execution in IranThe UN has announced a new $20 million funding deal for anti-drug operations in Iran, despite drug related executions reaching a 16 year high.The UN’s new funding deal will more than double UN funding for Iranian counter-narcotics efforts, and will be administered by the18
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A humanitarian crisis “calls for a humanitarian response.”The TUC has joined with European trade unions to pledge support for refugees who need access to work.Along with other members of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the TUC is pledging to assist the inclusion of asylum