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China must halt death sentences against Uighurs : Amnesty
China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China, Amnesty International said on Thursday.Thirteen people were sentenced...
Tags: Amnesty, death sentences, deaths sentenced, Chinese Supreme Peoples Court, Amnesty International&rsquo
China sentences five to death over riots: Xinhua
Beijing :: China | 5 days ago
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In Iran, three 'terrorists' are placed on death row
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 month ago
Credibility Reports indicate that two of the convicts are professed members of the Iran Royal Association, a little known monarchist group that seeks to overthrow the country's Islamic establishment and replace it with the old monarchy. The group is responsible for...
Tags: Iran Royal Association, Iranian Students News Agency, death sentences
Pakistani jets bomb suspected Taliban facilities
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Pakistani jet fighters flattened at least three suspected Taliban training facilities in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region Friday, killing or wounding several insurgents, two senior intelligence officials said. The Taliban also opened fire on...
Tags: Pakistan Army, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban, prime minister, Mr Mehsud, South Waziristan, Asif Ali Zardari, minister benazir, death sentences
Fifty-three death sentences commuted in Zambia
Following the commutation of the death sentences of 53 prisoners to custodial sentences by the President of Zambia, Amnesty International renewed its call for the government to join the worldwide trend towards the abolition of the death penalty. "We...
Tags: Death sentences
Executions drop in 2008, group says
Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility U.S. executions in 2008 tumbled to a 14-year low and new death sentences fell to their lowest number since 1976, a research group reports. The non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death-penalty organization, said nine states executed 37...
Tags: death, death sentences, capital punishment, U.S
Top court overturns 15% death sentences in 1st half year
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The high rejection rate shows how cautious the judiciary has been with capital punishment after the SPC took back the right to review death sentences from lower courts on Jan 1 last year. Gao Jinghong, presiding judge of the SPC's Third Criminal Law Court,...
Tags: death sentences, China Daily
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