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Mob attacks on women in Egypt protests go unpunished, report says
Mobs encircled and attacked dozens of women protesting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a spate of sexual assaults last month, Amnesty International said in a new report released Wednesday, urging Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to make sure the...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Civil Rights, Mohamed Morsi, Activism, Iran
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British woman faces death for drug smuggling in Indonesia
A British woman who tried to smuggle several pounds of cocaine into Bali was sentenced Tuesday to death, a far more severe punishment than the 15 years behind bars sought by Indonesian prosecutors. The court found there were "no mitigating...
Tags: Bali (Indonesia), Malaysia, Lawyers, Punishment, Human Rights
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Shouldn't we strive for a more enlightened justice system than China?
In response to Major Robert Di Stefano's Jan. 9 letter ("Make death penalty quicker, cheaper and more effective"): As a 21-year resident of central Baltimore, let me first thank the major for his service and for helping to keep me and my family safe. On...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Death Penalty, China
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California starts emptying solitary confinement cells
PolitiCalEven as inmate leaders held in isolation within California's toughest cell blocks threaten renewed hunger strikes, the state has begun reviewing and moving segregated prisoners into general housing. As of this week, corrections spokesman Bill Sessa said,... -
Make death penalty quicker, cheaper and more effective
Amnesty International's Frank Jannuzi wrote one of those letters that causes me to ask, "Where do I begin to answer?" ("Time to repeal Maryland's death penalty," Jan. 8). In the second paragraph, he alludes to the fact that imposition of the death...Tags: Witnesses, Punishment, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Death Penalty
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Femi!
Nigerian saxophonist Femi Kuti plays live in his home country at least three times a week, sits in on studio sessions with some artists who request his collaboration, and is finishing a new album with his band, the Positive Force. He's also a family...
Tags: Music, Skype, Human Rights, Mos Def, Personal Data Collection
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Solitary-confinement inmates threaten new hunger strike
PolitiCalSelf-declared inmate leaders within California's toughest prison wing are threatening renewed protests over the state's inmate isolation policies.... -
Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Trials, Revolutions, Civil Rights, Prisons, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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The significance of Erdrich
Just before N. Scott Momaday won the a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for "House Made of Dawn," Marshall Sprague reviewed the book for the New York Times and began: "This first novel, subtly wrought as a piece of Navajo silverware, is the work of a young Kiowa...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Crime (genre), The New York Times, Sprague, Judges
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Bahrain court upholds 'terrorist plot' convictions for dissidents
Thirteen people will remain imprisoned, eight of them for life, after Bahrain's high court upheld their convictions Monday for plotting to overthrow the state. The decision cements a deeply controversial case that has troubled human rights groups and the...
Tags: Civil Rights, Prisons, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Mexico enacts law to help drug war victims
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government on Wednesday enacted a controversial law aimed at giving recognition and recourse to tens of thousands of victims of the drug-related violence that has raged across the nation for the last six years. In a ceremony...
Tags: Civil Rights, Government, Judges, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lawyers
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Two Bahrain policemen sentenced over beating death
A Bahrain court has sentenced two policemen to spend seven years in jail for beating a man to death, one of those killed amid anti-government protests last year. The court decision was handed down Sunday, according to Reuters news service and Bahraini...Tags: Religion and Belief, Civil Rights, Government, Activism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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