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Calling upon all Twitter users to send a complaint; tweet the hashtag #FreeWomenonWeb.
Twitter has disabled the link to the Women on Web website and made it impossible to tweet a link to the website.
Women on Web was founded by Women on Waves in 2005, to respond to the urgent request for help for an abortion of women in countries where this healthcare service is not available.
Women on Waves is a charitable organisation focussing on women’s health and human rights.
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ST. LOUIS --The execution scheduled for next week for a Missouri inmate has been called off by the Missouri Supreme Court.The court on Thursday withdrew the execution warrant for 45-year-old Marcellus Williams, who had been set for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. A court spokeswoman declined to23
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterRevelations that inmates on Japan's death row were wrongfully convicted have sparked national debate and calls for reform of the death penalty.While many countries in the region are abolishing the death penalty, Japan is sentencing more people than ever23
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Joseph Sledge, "looking forward to sleepingin areal bed and maybe swimming in a pool."A 70-year-old man wrongly convicted of the 1976 stabbing deaths of a mother and daughter walked out of prison Friday, saying he was looking forward to sleeping in a real bed and maybe swimming in a pool.After22
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Jokowi’s decisions on Chan and Sukumaran are consistent with recent statements he has made that he would not grant clemency to drug offenders. The death penalty is available in Indonesia for 17 offences but usually only imposed for drugs, terrorism and murder.For decades the majority of
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Public hanging, Bonab, Iran, Jan. 21, 2015Iran Human Rights, January 21, 2015: Three prisoners were hanged in public in the town of Bonab, reported the Iranian state media.According to the state-run Iranian news agency Mehr, the prisoners were convicted of kidnapping and murdering a
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed 2 lower courts and said that a triple murderer on Missouri's death row, whose execution last fall was delayed, should be granted a replacement of the 2 St. Louis lawyers on his case.The ruling also means convicted killer Mark Christeson can argue that he21
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Think about what you already assume about sexual consent.Fifty Shades of Grey won the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards for the most popular book of the year, and it is estimated that as many as a third of British women have read at least one of E L James’s erotic ‘Fifty Shades’21
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‘None of these publications are age-restricted and they are all displayed at child’s eye level next to ordinary newspapers.’With the promising reports that the Sun may be changing its policy of showing topless models on Page Three, feminist campaigns movement Object is calling on the other ‘Red
D. Tsarnaev in courtWASHINGTON — The focus of the Boston Marathon bombing trial figures to be as much on what punishment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face as on his responsibility for the attack.With testimony expected to start later this month, the Justice Department has given no indication it is open
Brazil and the Netherlands have recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia after the execution of two of their nationals for drug trafficking.Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, 53, and Dutch national Ang Kiem Soe, 52, were among six people who faced the firing squad on Sunday.The other four17
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Pasir Putih Prison, on Nusakambangan Island,Central Java, Indonesia, where the 3 Bali bomberswere executed by firing squad on Nov. 9, 2008.The five death-row convicts set to face the firing squad on Nusakambangan Island in Cilacap regency, Central Java, have reportedly accepted their fate. The
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide a case on the constitutionality of the new combinations of drugs that some states are using to execute prisoners and that critics say cause intense suffering.The court will hear a challenge to Oklahoma’s choice of drugs even though the23
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Every few years, Southeast Asian countries make headlines for their capital punishment practices, and invariably these headlines come when foreigners are sentenced.On Thursday, Andrew Chan, an Australian accused of drug trafficking in Indonesia, lost his appeal for presidential clemency. He is 123
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An Iranian man has been sentenced to surgical removal of one eye and one ear as retribution for an acid attack. The sentence has not been implemented yet because no doctors have been willing to carry out the sentence. Iran Human Rights (IHR) condemns the Iranian authorities’ use of barbaric22
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STOCKHOLM – Sweden's former foreign minister says he helped an Afghan student and journalist secretly flee the country in 2009, which saved the man from a death penalty.Carl Bildt says Sayed Pervez Kambaksh was convicted for publishing critical texts about Islam. He was smuggled into a Swedish21
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Arnold PrietoAfter nearly 22 years and a number of denied appeals, Arnold Prieto became the first Texas death row inmate executed in 2015.Arnold Prieto, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. He becomes the first person executed under the watch of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.As the lethal
Prisoners' attorneys say new state law 'violates right of free speech'; Supporters say secrecy is necessary to prevent harassment of suppliers4 death row inmates who are suing Ohio officials over a new state law that shields the names of companies providing lethal injection drugs want a federal
President Joko WidodoPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has once again rejected any possibility of compromise on capital punishment for drug offenders, regardless of their citizenship, arguing that rampant drug use has placed the country in a “state of emergency” over the years. During his visit to a
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has urged the government to immediately take up diplomatic initiatives to save the lives of 5 Nepalis on death row for drug related charges in Indonesia.According to a press statement issued by INSEC on Monday, Bahar Tamang, Bir Bahadur Gurung, Indra Bahadur20
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The triple whammy.By Deniz KandiyotiCaught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist platforms are in retreat. Only a politics of coalition building can avert their eclipse.Eclipses are rare and mercifully transitory18
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Shiraz, Iran, January 17, 2015The first public executions of 2015 were carried out in Shiraz this morning. There were several children among those watching the hangings.Iran Human Rights, January 17, 2015: Two prisoners were hanged publicly in Shiraz (Southern Iran) today.According to the
The Commission of Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) joined forces with human rights NGOs to oppose the execution of six death-row convicts in Boyolali, West Java, and Nusakambangan Island, West Java, scheduled for Sunday, saying it would not solve the illegal drug problem.“We are
Deon Cornelius was found carrying 2 kilos of drugs after arriving at Penang International Airport in 2013.A South African security guard has been sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia after being found guilty of drug trafficking.Deon Cornelius was found to be carrying 2 kilograms of23
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Andrew Chan (left) Myuran Sukumaran (right)The Indonesian attorney-general's office has received notice that Australian drug trafficker Andrew Chan is to be executed.However, a time and place for the execution has not yet been decided after Chan and his fellow Australian death row inmate, Myuran22
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2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the last executions to take place in the UK when two men were hanged for the murder of the same man. Two months later a new Government was elected and in 1965, Parliament suspended the death penalty, abolishing it in 1969.This was not an easy process. At Leggi
Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)Andrew Chan, a ringleader for Australia's drug-smuggling "Bali Nine", has had his clemency plea rejected, a local court has announced.He and eight other Australians were arrested in Bali in 2005 with more than 18lb (8.3kg) of heroin.Chan and Myuran21
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Arnold PrietoA San Antonio man has the dubious distinction of being the first person set to be executed in Texas in 2015, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.Arnold Prieto, 38, is set to die after 6 tonight for the 1993 murder of his great aunt and uncle and their 90 year old
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Tommy ArthurDeath row inmate Tommy Arthur has won another round in court to block his execution, which had been scheduled for Feb. 19.U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins scheduled a final hearing May 5-6 in Arthur's latest challenge to the state's method of lethal injection.Watkins denied the
Riaydh: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded one of its citizens for murder in its 12th execution this year, warning it would mete out the same fate to perpetrators of similar crimes.Mansour Bin Awad bin Ziniegih Al Jabri was sentenced to death after being convicted of shooting dead another Saudi in a20
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James E. HolmesDENVER - The long jury selection process begins Tuesday in the James Holmes murder trial.Members of the jury pool, which numbers nearly 9,000 people, will initially be asked to fill out a questionnaire.Legal analysts say some of the questions will likely deal with the death18
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Pakistan has executed a militant for his role in a 2004 sectarian killing, bringing to 19 the number of executions carried since a 6-year moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in the wake of the Taliban school massacre in Peshawar.Pakistan on Saturday (Jan 17) hanged a sectarian militantNusakambangan Island PrisonIndonesia on Sunday put to death six people convicted of drugs offences, including five foreigners, in the first executions carried out under new President Joko Widodo.Two women were among those executed by firing squad, in a move swiftly condemned by Amnesty17
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has appealed directly to Indonesian president Joko Widodo to show mercy to two Australian men on death row in his country.Myuran Sukamaran and Andrew Chan were sentenced to death in 2006 for their roles in the so-called Bali Nine's attempt to traffic heroin to