The children of high-profile Egyptian Islamists detained in the same prison as former President Mohamed Mursi before his sudden death last week say they fear for their parents’ health. Mursi, 67, died after collapsing during a court appearance at Cairo’s Tora prison complex, where he was moved after army chief-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew him […]
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Sri Lanka president signs death penalty for four drugs convicts
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said on Wednesday the government would press ahead with a controversial plan to reinsate the death penalty for drug-related offences. “I have already signed death penalty for four (convicts). It will be implemented soon and we have already decided the date as well,” Sirisena told reporters in Colombo, without elaborating […]
Iraq death sentences a ‘disgrace’ for France: lawyers
The execution of nine French jihadists on death row in Iraq would be a disgrace for France and leave an “indelible stain” on the mandate of President Emmanuel Macron, a group of prominent French lawyers said Monday. With controversy growing in France over the sentences handed out to the nine for joining the Islamic State […]
Iraqi court sentences two French men to death for being Islamic State fighters
An Iraqi court sentenced two French men to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of being members of Islamic State, a prosecutor told Reuters. Iraq is conducting trials of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters, including hundreds of foreigners, with many arrested as the group’s strongholds crumbled. President Emmanuel Macron’s government has said France […]
Son of PPP’s Kaira dies in road accident
A teenage son of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader and former information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira passed away in a road accident on Friday, a party spokesperson said. Kaira’s son Usama Qamar died in the traffic accident which took place in his hometown Lalamusa. Usama was a student at the Government College Lahore. Rescue […]
Two doctors accused in Nashwa’s case escaped the court after their interim bail was cancelled
Two doctors accused of Nashwa’s death escaped from the court in Karachi on Friday. The police filed a temporary charge sheet and incorporated the offence of murder in the report on Thursday. The nine-month-old infant was brought to Darul Sehat Hospital for the treatment of diarrhea but she was allegedly given a wrong injection which […]
Sri Lanka detains Syrian in blast investigation as death toll rises to 321
Sri Lankan police detained a Syrian among 40 people being questioned about the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, government and military sources said on Tuesday, as the toll from the coordinated bomb attacks rose to 321. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which officials said were carried out by at least […]
The emotional element in death penatly debate
A UK-based non-government organization has recently submitted its report on death penalty to the minister for law and justice. The report mentions that in recent years the Supreme Court of Pakistan has overturned death penalty in 78 per cent of the cases. The report reveals that the apex court has frequently cited unreliable testimonies, insufficient […]
Bangladesh girl burned to death on teacher’s order: police
A schoolgirl was burned to death in Bangladesh on the orders of her head teacher after she reported him for sexually harassing her, police said Friday. The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those involved. Rafi was lured […]
Hatred of journalists turning to violence, watchdog warns
Hatred of journalists whipped up by populist and authoritarian leaders is degenerating into violence across the world, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. And the number of countries where journalists can work safely is plummeting, its annual World Press Freedom Index revealed. Political leaders’ hostility towards the media “has incited increasingly frequent acts […]