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Tens of prisoners have been executed in the past few months in the prison of Kerman (Southeastern Iran) and their executions have not been announced by the official media. Most of the prisoners have been convicted of drug-related charges. It is not known how long these executions have been going on
December 23, 2014: Al-Shabaab militants have executed a young man for suspected spying for the Federal Government of Somalia.The group executed the man in front of a crowd in Biyo Ade, 40 kilometer outside of Jowhar, the capital of central Shabelle region. Eyewitnesses told Bar-Kulan the group25
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President Joko WidodoJakarta. President Joko Widodo visited Nahdlatul Ulama on Wednesday to ask Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization for its support in the fight against radicalism and to receive NU’s blessing for the government to execute drug dealers.“[On radicalism] we have to be very firm23
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Jakarta. Executing people for drug-related crimes is not a violation of human rights, the chief of National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said on Tuesday at a discussion on the matter.Admitting that the measure continues to be controversial, Comr. Gen. Anang Iskandar said that as long as the punishment
Among the 54 soldiers were two corporals, nine lance corporals and 49 private soldiers who were attached to the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri. The 7 Division is the Army Division which was created in 2013 and charged with waging war against the deadly Boko Haram terrorists who22
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The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, on Monday halted the execution of death sentences awarded to five terrorists in an attack on an army camp in Gujrat in 2012.Ehsan Azeem, Asif Idrees, Aamir Yousaf, Kamran Aslam and Umer Nadeem were awarded death sentence by a military court for their22
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Jordan executed 11 men convicted of murder by hanging on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as it ended an informal eight-year moratorium on the death penalty.“Eleven criminals convicted in different cases of murder were executed at dawn,” the official Petra news agency quoted a ministry20
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LAHORE- The execution of death penalty for four terror convicts in KotLakhpat jail of Lahore was delayed on Saturday amid security concerns. Meanwhile, death sentences in Adiala jail Rawalpindi have also been deferred.According to media reports the prisoners on death row would be transferred toWho actually wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? By Gita Sahgal. Many of the assumptions about who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are wrong. The less known story of the men and women who wrote this foundational, emancipatory and anti-colonial document must be
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One of the women died, one went on to great things, and one disappeared.British Science Week (BSW) is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities in different places in the UK for people of all ages, and will be running from 13 – 22 March29
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A Chinese police officer lights aninmate's last cigarette momentsbeforehis execution.BEIJING — There was an ear-splitting whistle and Kong Ning, a young supervising officer from Beijing, saw blood spurt from the bodies of the 34 prisoners, all men in their 20s and 30s, kneeling in a row in front
Six people nabbed in a cross-border drug trafficking case in China, including one Japanese and two Koreans, have been given punishments ranging from life imprisonment to the death sentence.Three of the six, including one from the Chinese mainland, one from Hong Kong and one from Japan, werePresident Joko WidodoJakarta. The Archbishop of Jakarta criticized President Joko Widodo’s policy on executing drug traffickers on Thursday, saying no-one had the right to take a person’s life.“Nobody has the right on anyone else’s life,” Archbishop Mgr. Ignatius Suharyo said, as quoted by news23
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Joseph WoodTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona officials said Monday they have been cleared of any wrongdoing in an execution this year that lasted nearly two hours, but they are nevertheless changing the drugs they use to put inmates to death.According to a letter from Department of Corrections Director
Oklahoma's brand new death chamber and gurneyOKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge has rejected a request by Oklahoma death-row inmates to halt executions in the state, finding that the state's protocol does not violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.The ruling by
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The Pakistani authorities have admitted that a man set to be hanged tomorrow is not connected to the Peshawar school attack, but said they have no plans to stay his execution.Shafqat Hussain, from the province of Sindh, was arrested in 2004 at the age of 14. Tortured into a confession, he was21
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Indian businessman steps in to pay blood money on convicts’ behalfRiyadh: Three Indians on death row in Saudi Arabia for the murder of their compatriot have been saved from being executed after an Indian businessman paid nearly $133,200 (Dh489,243) in blood money on their behalf.The three20
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For stealing fowls belonging to a police officer, two men have been sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court.The convicts, Olowookere Segun and Morakinyo Sunday, were alleged to have attacked the home of Mr. Balogun Tope, a police officer attached to Divisional Police Headquarters, OkukuGENEVA- The U.N. human rights office appealed to Pakistan on Friday to refrain from resuming executions after the massacre of 141 people in a Peshawar school, saying this would not stop terrorism and might even feed a "cycle of revenge".Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted Pakistan's moratorium on
Who actually wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ?By Gita Sahgal.Many of the assumptions about who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are wrong. The less known story of the men and women who wrote this foundational, emancipatory and anti-colonial document must19
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A book of short plays about women’s rights – what more could you want? The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight pieces for theatre written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. The plays articulate the arguments of the women’s Suffrage Movement
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On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, Ihler, a 20-year-old theater major at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and a political activist, was hanging out with a few friends on Utoya, a small, heart-shaped emerald isle set on the waters of the Tyrifjorden lake in Buskerud County, Norway, roughly26
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December 23, 2014: A 26 year old man was hanged in the prison of Mashhad (Northeastern Iran).The man who was not identified by name, was convicted of murdering his brother in law, reported the Iranian state media.The execution took place in the prison of Mashhad, in the presence of the judges and
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A Pakistani widow surprised the judge at an Abu Dhabi court when she told him she was forgiving the killer of her husband in line with Islamic teachings.The judge had given the woman three options — either to pardon the defendant, demand diya (blood money) or have the killer executed.“This23
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The Government defended controversial UK ‘aid for executions’ to Pakistan on the mistaken understanding that Pakistan would not resume hangings, it’s emerged.On 11 December, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg wrote to legal charity Reprieve, which assists some death row prisoners in Pakistan, saying22
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D. TsarnaevBOSTON - Defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking a judge to "take reasonable measures" to protect Tsarnaev from the public relations impact of his own supporters.Attorney David Bruck wrote in a court motion that when Tsarnaev's trial begins on22
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FAISALABAD: Four Pakistani terror convicts on death row were executed at a jail in Faisalabad today, after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty earlier this week. The executed convicts - Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Akhlaque Ahmed - had been found20
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FAISALABAD: Authorities in Faisalabad District Jail have received death warrants for convicts who are expected to be sent to gallows today.The four convicts were handed down death sentence for their involvement in a deadly attack on former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.30 more20
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged at least 11 prisoners is cities of Shiraz and Qazvin.A group of eight prisoners were hanged secretly on Sunday, December 14 in Adelabad Prison in city of Shiraz.Two other inmates were hanged on Wednesday in the same19
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One of the women died, one went on to great things, and one disappeared. British Science Week (BSW) is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities in different places in the UK for people of all ages, and will be running from 13 – 22 March 2015. Anyone
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A book of short plays about women’s rights – what more could you want?The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight pieces for theatre written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13.The plays articulate the arguments of the women’s Suffrage