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  • Iranian Activist Sentenced to Death

    Revolutionary Court has sentenced another dissident, Iranian social media activist Mahmoud Mehrabi, to death criminal offenses under the Islamic Republic's interpretation of Sharia law, both carrying the penalty of death Prominent Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death by the same court just last month This sentence comes amid an escalating use of the death penalty in Iran, following the unprecedented

  • Iranian Rapper Sentenced to Death

    That wait is now over; Salehi has been sentenced to death. was arrested in October 2022 after publicly supporting the massive protests that broke out after the death Her death inspired the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran. A revolutionary court in Isfahan recently issued the verdict and the sentence of death. He said, “We once again condemn the Iranian regime’s use of the death sentence as a tool to suppress

  • Australian Aboriginal deaths in police custody: genocidal?

    Lidia Thorpe has made a claim about the Northern Territory Chief Minister over Indigenous deaths in custody been calls, including from Indigenous Affairs Minister Malindiri McCarthy, for an external review of deaths “The politicisation of a death in custody by federal independent and Labor MPs shows just how little “Similarly, the recent AFP death in custody incident will also be investigated by NT Police.” Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese has weighed in on the deaths in custody, saying “all governments have not

  • Death toll in Darfur clashes rises to 132

    By NOHA ELHENNAWY CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from tribal violence in Sudan’s restive Darfur region A military-civilian government now rules the country.

  • Afghan airstrike kills civilians and Taliban supporters at prisoner's homecoming

    But the reports of numerous civilian casualties were likely to provoke strong criticism in Afghanistan The Defense Ministry said it would investigate the reports of civilian deaths. February, said in a tweet Thursday that photographs and “eyewitness accounts” suggested that “many civilians In the first half of this year, 1,232 civilians were killed and 1,744 wounded in conflict incidents, denounced the government of President Ashraf Ghani as “un-Islamic,” and others vowed to fight it to the death

  • Argentina: Survivor Tracks Down "Death Flight" Plane

    "This was an instrument of death, but now [it] is a witness." death flights of the 1970s. It was the first time the death flights could be documented and proven. Her mother was among those taken on a death flight.  The pilots who flew the Skyvan PA-51 death flights were sentenced to life in prison.

  • Vietnam abolishes death penalty for 8 criminal offenses

    Vietnamese lawmakers on Wednesday abolished the death penalty for eight offenses, including bribery, which Truong My Lan (C) was convicted of and sentenced to death for last year. United Press International June 26, 2025 By Darryl Coote June 26 (UPI) -- Vietnam has abolished the death smuggling, setting the stage for the courts to spare the life of a real estate tycoon sentenced to death penalty for the remaining offences punishable by death.

  • Kenya protests sparked by teacher's death in police cell

    People react during a protest following Albert Ojwang's death in police custody at the Central Police Monicah Mwangi/Reuters CNN —  Outrage over the death of a Kenyan teacher and activist in police custody Ojwang’s death further enrages Kenya’s youth, who have railed against the disappearance of dozens of the National Police Service headquarters demanding the resignation of senior officers following the death The head of Kenya’s police, Kanja, on Wednesday retracted the initial claim on Ojwang’s cause of death

  • UN warns of 'mass deaths' in Myanmar. 100,000 flee fighting.

    across international borders seeking safety [AFP] A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths “Mass deaths from starvation, disease, and exposure, on a scale we have not yet seen since the February and civilian infrastructure”. areas after fighting broke out on May 21 between the security forces and a civilian resistance group There have been several deaths, including that of a 14-year-old boy who was shot dead in Loikaw township

  • The Sahel: More terror deaths than rest of world combined

    of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths There was a perception that civilian governments were unable to combat security threats from insurgent In fact, it says this may already be happening - Togo recorded 10 attacks and 52 deaths in 2024, the

  • American Made Bombs Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen

    a major supplier of weapons to the Saudis, including some implicated by human rights groups in the deaths Al-Matmah District, Jawf Province DATE Sept. 20, 2016 DEATHS 15 Part of a Raytheon-made GBU-12 bomb Al-Dhihar District, Ibb Province DATE Sept. 24, 2016 DEATHS 6 Mwatana researchers have chronicled The death toll had soared past 50,000, including 9,000 civilians, raising concerns among Mr. By the end of the year, the civilian death toll in Yemen had topped 12,000.

  • Iran Orders Attack on Israel after Haniya's Death

    military targets in the vicinity of Tel Aviv and Haifa, but would make a point of avoiding strikes on civilian Haniyeh’s death, Mr.

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