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Opinion 5 years ago

If only I were given a chance to be free

I want to live and share my experience, so that no other vulnerable women would be manipulated.

World 5 years ago

Saudi reviews death sentences of three convicted as minors

Saudi authorities are reviewing death penalties against three men convicted of crimes when they were minors, a statement said Thursday, as the kingdom seeks to improve its human rights record.

World 5 years ago

Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA, Mossad

Iran on Monday executed a former translator convicted of spying on its forces for the US and Israel, including help to locate a top Iranian general killed later in a US drone strike.

World 5 years ago

Taiwan's new execution guidelines slammed by rights groups

Taiwan has released new procedures for carrying out capital punishment -- including preventing the condemned from seeing their executioner -- but rights activists said Thursday the move merely whitewashes a barbaric practice.

World 5 years ago

Bahrain top court upholds death sentences against two activists

Bahrain's highest court upheld death sentences against two activists for bombing a convoy and killing a police officer, after convictions that human rights groups say were based on confessions extracted through torture.

World 5 years ago

Texas resumes executions after five-month virus break

The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate convicted of murdering an elderly man during a 1993 robbery -- ending a five-month halt to executions due to the coronavirus crisis.

National 5 years ago

Death row convicts in Jakarta appeal for abolition of capital punishment

Death row inmates Aulia Kesuma and her son, Geovanni Kelvin, who were found guilty of soliciting the murders of Aulia’s husband and stepson, are seeking to avoid the death penalty.

World 5 years ago

US execution stayed over right to have priest present

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a last-minute reprieve to a Texas prisoner facing execution after the Catholic Church campaigned for him to be allowed to have priest present.

SE Asia 5 years ago

Man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call

A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely.

World 5 years ago

Yemen Huthis uphold death sentence for Baha'i, community says

Hamed bin Haydara, who has been detained since 2013, was not allowed into Sunday's hearing in the capital Sanaa that rejected his appeal against the sentence imposed more than a year ago, the community said.

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death-sentence

If only I were given a chance to be free

Saudi reviews death sentences of three convicted as minors

Iran executes man convicted of spying for CIA, Mossad

Taiwan's new execution guidelines slammed by rights groups

Bahrain top court upholds death sentences against two activists

Texas resumes executions after five-month virus break

Death row convicts in Jakarta appeal for abolition of capital punishment

US execution stayed over right to have priest present

Man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call

Yemen Huthis uphold death sentence for Baha'i, community says

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