Abdul BasitThe Pakistani authorities have once again set a date for the hanging of a prisoner who is paralysed from the waist down as a result of medical neglect while in prison.Abdul Basit contracted meningitis while in prison in Faisalabad in 2010, and has needed to use a wheelchair ever
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Ashraf FayadhA Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said
The lawyer who represented Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran before the Australians were executed is optimistic there will eventually be a change in Indonesia’s death penalty laws.While reports yesterday that Indonesia had declared a formal moratorium to end the death penalty20
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Women given just 2 years’ notice of state pension age rise, for example.Millions of women have had their state pension age delayed – in some cases twice and by up to six years in total – without proper notice.That is the only conclusion which can be drawn from the details of how they were
Firing squad execution of suspected militants in Somalia, August 2014.The United Nations is "deeply concerned" about summary executions against suspected militants in Somalia, a UN official said, echoing previous concerns by a New-York based rights group which accused Somalia's military court of19
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Anthony GravesAnthony Graves was convicted in 1994 in Texas of murdering a woman, her daughter and her 4 grandchildren. Later proven to be innocent, Graves spent many years in prison, including 12 years on death row waiting to be executed for a crime he did not commit."You took 18 years
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Bangladesh's Supreme Court Wednesday rejected appeals of 2 senior opposition leaders convicted of war crimes during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. The court also upheld the death sentences given to the 2 leaders.Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Nationalist19
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Bill proposed lifetime imprisonment or death by stoning for both gay Kenyan and foreign peopleKenya's parliament has officially thrown out a proposal that would have punished homosexuality with death by stoning.The reason is that lawmakers believe current laws, which imprisons gay people for up18
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Sentenced to death by beheading for the crime of "insulting Allah"The Sunni terror group, Islamic State (Isis), has released a new execution video shot using a camera mounted drone showing the brutal beheading of an Iraqi man in Anbar province.The man
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Marcus Ray JohnsonA lawyer for a Georgia death row inmate says his client shouldn't be executed this week because doubts remain about his guilt.Marcus Ray Johnson is set for execution Thursday.He was convicted in April 1998 in the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore.The Georgia Board17
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Changes to the registration system mean that each individual needs to register themselves.An estimated 1.9 million people are set to drop off the electoral register because of the government’s introduction of ‘individual electoral registration’.In the past, one person could register on17
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The government of Pakistan has executed at least 300 people in the past 11 months, it’s emerged.In a rare admission, an anonymous Interior Ministry official said yesterday that Pakistan’s total for hangings “now stands at 311” since the country resumed executions 11 months ago today. Setting20
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New video shows the devastating impact of forced marriage.The UK’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) has released a short film to demonstrate the devastating impact of forced marriage on victims and their families.Its release coincided with the October half-term, as school holidays are always high20
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Mental health services need to be improved – and gender informed.Mental health equality has been given high profile backing recently after over 200 celebrities backed a campaign to push for mental health to be treated as seriously as other illnesses.They have joined together to mount a19
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One of Indonesia's most senior ministers has denied there will be a formal moratorium on executions in Indonesia.Co-ordinating Minister for political, legal and security affairs Luhut Panjaitan had earlier on Thursday said there would not be any executions for the time being because Indonesia was19
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Site of the A321 Russian airliner that crashed on Oct 31, 2015.The State Duma of the Russian Federation (the Parliament) is collecting signatures for a petition to the president about the need to reinstate death penalty in Russia.Many Russian MPs
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The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has lauded the proposal to abolish the mandatory death sentence for drug-related offences.Its chairman Tan Sri Hasmy Agam said Suhakam believed the positive development would place Malaysia on par with many other nations that have lately begun to19
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Women carers are still fighting for the right to not be impoverished, overworked, isolated, or exploited in their work.By Selma James.Women face a dilemma. If we do the caring, men do not become carers with us but consumers of the care we provide. And if we refuse to care, those who need care19
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Indonesia has announced a moratorium on executions as the government looks at fixing the economy.A government official said the ban on executions would allow the nation to concentrate its stalling economy.Indonesia has been cautious about proceeding with further executions since Australians18
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Raphael HolidayHUNTSVILLE — A Texas inmate was set to be executed Wednesday evening for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago.Raphael Holiday, 36, would be the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas18
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The Soekarno Hatta Airport Police seized drugs worth Rp 39 billion after capturing 2 drug traffickers, identified by their initials N and S, on November 10 and 11."N was the courier, whereas S was the supplier. The evidence includes 1,012 grams of meth, 2,944 grams of ketamine, 61,251 ecstasy17
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What is Europe doing to tackle the gender pay gap?By Mary Honeyball MEP.It could not be more apparent (or obvious) that there is a gender pay gap in existence.A recent calculation carried out by the Fawcett Society found that from the start of this week until the end of the year women will17
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November 11, 2015: In an op-ed for USA Today, three retired generals call for systemic review of the status of veterans on death row nationwide and urge decision-makers in capital cases to seriously consider the mental health effects of service-related PTSD in determining whether to pursue or to20
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Idaho's Death ChamberIdaho's death row is down to 9 offenders, 1 woman and 8 men, now that Gene Francis Stuart has had his sentence reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Stuart pleaded guilty to murder by torture in the 1981 beating death of 3-year-old Robert Miller, Leggi20
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Marcus Ray JohnsonMarcus Ray Johnson has been put to death, the 1st of 7 expected to come over the next weeks and months as issues of the state's lethal injection drug has been resolved and death penalty cases complete the usual round of appeals.The appointed time of his death
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Mary Jane VelosoMary Jane Veloso's family rejoiced over news that ranking Indonesia official issued a pronouncement that they are not considering carrying out anymore executions."We are very happy because this would give the government and our lawyers |time] to look into her (Mary Jane's) case19
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Georgia Death ChamberA look at the state's history of bad lawyering and faulty evidence.Since December 2014, Georgia has executed a man whose drunk lawyer bungled the case, a man with intellectual disabilities, a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, and a woman who planned but did not19
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The Central Narcotics Bureau seized about 1.56kg of heroin and 1.12kg of cannabis, among other drugs, during an operation on Tuesday (Nov 17).According to a press release on Wednesday, CNB said its officers were deployed in the vicinity of Kembangan, where a local drug trafficker was believed to19
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Jeremy Corbyn isn’t offering inaction, but a different response to a crisis.By Maya Goodfellow.When a tragedy strikes, the people convinced they know the solution to the situation are the ones who shout the loudest. They have a clear idea of the right approach and the wrong one. They don’t19
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Raphael HolidayA Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her 2 young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago.Raphael Holiday, 36, became the 13th convicted killer put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment
Tokyo Detention Center's Execution Chamber and Viewing GalleryTOKYO — Contact with the outside world through visits and the exchange of letters makes life worth living for death row inmates in Japan, even if just for another day, as they reflect on their crimes or
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Public execution in IranIs the Obama administration aware that it is trusting and dealing with a country that has just broken the world record in executions? Of course the President is aware of that, and it seems that he has decided to turn a blind eye to Iran's
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Help save Rotherham’s only ethnic minority women’s violence against women support group.At the end of July this year Apna Haq received a devastating letter from Rotherham council informing them that their £145,000 contract for providing domestic violence support was to be ended and that a17
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Manama: The Cassation Court in Bahrain on Monday upheld the death sentence for two defendants found guilty of killing an on-duty police officer and of attempted murder.Police officer Abdul Wahid Sayid Mohammad Faqeer was killed on February 14 last year in the Dair area, in the northern part of