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‘We are done pandering to the egos of change-resistant influential men’
#TimesUpNews has started this petition to journalists and 8 others, as members of the international journalism community are no longer prepared to sit through another ‘manel’, support organisations that disingenuously claim credit for gender equality initiatives, or stay silent when female colleagues are sexually harassed before our eyes.
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A Texas death row inmate who confessed to 4 slayings and at least nine rapes is set for lethal injection Wednesday amid concerns from his lawyers that his health issues make it likely his execution will cause him unconstitutional pain.No one disputes Danny Paul Bible's guilt for a Houston woman's
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In a joint conference of the judiciary in Tehran on the morning of June 26, Iranian Judiciary Chief Amoli Larijani accused protesting bazaar merchants of disrupting Iran’s economy, warning them to “take the stuffing out of their ears” and realize that verdicts ranging from 20 years in prison to
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The mastermind of the murder case committed the crime after he came to know about the affair, which had ended already. Two more men helped the accused to commit the crime.The 58-year-old man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife's former lover, will face the death penalty
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In June 1966, the manager of a miso-producing factory, his wife and two children were murdered in their home. Their house was robbed and set alight. Iwao Hakamada, who was an employee at the miso factory, was tried for the quadruple murder and ultimately found guilty. But you don’t need to be a
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Rabat – A commission within Tunisia’s government proposed substantial social reform in their final report last week.Over 230 pages of proposals in the report address decriminalization of homosexuality and banning of anal tests, gender equity in inheritance law, remarriage stipulations, and “total
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DNA technology has helped detectives make an arrest decades after a 1986 rape and murder of a 12-year-old Washington state girl, bringing closure to a "horrific crime [that] shook our community," the police chief said.Gary Hartman will be arraigned Monday following his June 20 arrest on charges
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who has been trying without success to have crime-scene evidence tested for DNA, saying the results could prove his innocence.The decision, delivered without comment from the court, ended Reed’s bid to
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Ten drug dealers were sentenced to death and received immediate executions in South China's Guangdong Province before the UN's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, a local court announced on Saturday."Ten cases related to drug making and dealing were publicly
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Rights activists and church officials say capital punishment will do nothing to stop the country's growing narcotics problemBangladeshi authorities are planning to introduce the death penalty for drug dealers and their patrons, sparking opposition from rights activists and church officials.Prime
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Heated debate is expected after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said it will recommend President Moon Jae-in declare a moratorium on the death penalty in December. A senior official at the oversight agency said last week that joint, working-level discussions with the Ministry of
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Banning the death penalty for defendants with severe mental illness would save the state of Tennessee an estimated $1.4 to $1.9 million a year, a new ABA study says.The study was released by the ABA's Death Penalty Due Process Review Project, which advocates for a severe mental illness exemption
Washington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative who provided key votes for same sex-marriage, abortion access and affirmative action, will retire from the Supreme Court.The retirement is effective July 31, Kennedy said in a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday.Kennedy's decision
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LAHORE: Justice Muhammad Anwaarul Haq of Lahore High Court sought a reply from Punjab home secretary by June 28 in a writ petition filed by the father of Kasur rape and murder victim Zainab Amin. The father sought permission for the public hanging of convict Imran Ali for abducting, raping and
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An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence of a teenager who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her, instead sentencing her to five years in prison, the BBC reports.Noura Hussein, 19, was sentenced by an Islamic court in May to death by hanging for stabbing her husband
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‘There is still much work required to address the striking gender imbalance in STEM apprenticeships’.A Public Accounts Committee report published last week, Delivering STEM skills for the economy, has warned of potential impact of Brexit – and calls for action on gender imbalances.STEM skills26
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A Tunisian man who allegedly served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden was detained in Germany on Monday and is to be deported, officials said.The 41-year-old, identified as Sami A., has lived in Germany for about two decades, but outrage over his presence has grown in recent months as the mood
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With two days to go before his scheduled date with death, Houston serial killer Danny Bible on Monday lost out on a bid for clemency.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the aging prisoner's plea in a 6-0 vote, according to his attorneys. He's now scheduled to die by lethal injection on
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Parks: austerity has seen ‘disastrous reductions in staffing and maintenance’.On 21 June, the first day of summer, a ‘Charter for Parks’ was launched and the UK’s political leaders asked to champion parks and local public green spaces across the UK to halt – and reverse – their decline.TheThe British government has turned down a request from Myanmar to extradite Harris Binotti, the prime suspect in the Nov. 2016 murder of fellow British national Gary Ferguson in Yangon.“In April 2017, the Burmese did submit an extradition request to the Home Office, asking that Harris Binotti be
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Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the death penalty trial of a Jordanian immigrant accused in a pair of “honor killings” that shocked Houston.Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan’s prosecution is the first death penalty trial this year in Harris County, and the first one since District Attorney Kim
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The father of Zainab Amin, a 6-year-old child whose rape and murder by Imran Ali in January 2018 had sparked national outrage, has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) demanding that his daughter's killer be hanged publicly.The petition states that a public execution will "give [a]
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Despite reservations from a former juror in the case, the Ohio Parole Board announced today that it believes the death penalty is still appropriate for Raymond Tibbetts.After a special clemency hearing this month, the State of Ohio Adult Parole Authority today released its recommendation that
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Indonesia now has 3 Islamic militants on death row after the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) leader Aman Abdurrahman to die before a firing squad for directing a 2016 gun and bomb attack in downtown Jakarta from behind bars in a supposed maximum-security
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As pride month comes to a close this week, the U.S. recognizes the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide. The decision on June 26, 2015, overturned prohibitions in 13 U.S. states that had not already granted the right to marry on the state level to
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In a joint conference of the judiciary in Tehran on the morning of June 26, Iranian Judiciary Chief Amoli Larijani accused protesting bazaar merchants of disrupting Iran’s economy, warning them to “take the stuffing out of their ears” and realize that verdicts ranging from 20 years in prison to
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Four decades of the clerical regime’s rule in Iran has left thousands of victims through widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment with impunity.Torture has been institutionalized in the regime’s punishment laws and is sanctioned by the Judiciary as well as the regime officials.Hadi
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It’s been seven years since Pennsylvania’s General Assembly commissioned an analysis of capital punishment in the state — and for the last two, Gov. Wolf has placed a moratorium on executions, awaiting the outcome.Finally released Monday, the dense, 280-page Joint State Government Commission
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Donald Trump is due to visit the UK on 13 July.His presidency has been characterised by the spreading of fear, hate and conflict worldwide and deplorable remarks about women.Women’s March London invite you to #BringTheNoise on 13 July 2018 and broadcast to the world that we stand together for25
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The parents of a Sudanese teenager who was sentenced to death after killing her husband - whom she accuses of raping her - have denied reports that they've disowned her. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, her father also says he never imagined that making her marry her cousin would have such
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NEW DELHI (XINHUA) - Indian police have arrested a 28-year-old woman for allegedly poisoning food that led to the deaths of at least five people and hospitalisation of 120 others in the western state of Maharashtra.The horrific incident took place at Mahad village in the state's Raigad district
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The Court of Cassation upheld a January Criminal Court ruling sentencing two brothers to death after convicting them of murdering their pregnant sister and her husband’s other wife in Balqa Governorate in November 2014.The two defendants, aged 22 and 28, were declared guilty by the Criminal Court
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Government Executes a Prisoner After 9-Year MoratoriumThe Thai government should halt further executions and publicly resume its de facto moratorium on the use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities executed a 26-year-old man by lethal injection on June 18, 2018
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The brother of an Iranian Kurdish man on death row in Iran for belonging to a Kurdish nationalist group said yesterday that his brother had just hours to live.Amjad Hossein Panahi, who lives in Germany, said that his brother Ramin had been moved to death row in a prison in Sanandaj and had