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World News tagged with prison

Indonesia's Aceh Province OKs Stoning for Adulterers
World  (tags: world, Indonesia, muslims, crime, sharia, law, adultery, stoning, hanging, lashing, homosexuality, prison, beheading, beating, humanrights, freedoms, crime, asia, humanrights, civilliberties, middle-east, death, violence, society, culture )

Tom
- 69 days ago - latimes.com
Offending married couples can be punished by a minimum of 100 lashings and a maximum of stoning to death. It also imposes severe prison terms for homosexuality, which will be punishable by public lashings and more than eight years in prison.
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Three Britons Sentenced in Plot to Blow Up Airliners
World  (tags: london, terrorism, violence, prison, many years, GoodNews )

Lone
- 70 days ago - nytimes.com
LONDON -- A High Court judge on Monday imposed minimum prison terms of 32 to 40 years on three men convicted last week, after two trials, of plotting to smuggle liquid explosives onto at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners heading to the United States
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Iraqi Shoe Thrower May Become Activist
World  (tags: Iraqi, journalist, President Bush, shoe, prison, activist, humanitarian organization )

Rosemary
- 74 days ago - time.com
(BAGHDAD) -- The Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush in one of the more bizarre episodes of the Iraq war might use his new iconic status in Iraq to promote humanitarian causes, his family said.
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Islamic Officials Release Woman Held for Caning
World  (tags: malaysia, model, drinking, prison, caned, violence )

Lone
- 92 days ago - news.yahoo.com
KARAI, Malaysia - Islamic officials Monday abruptly released a Muslim model scheduled to be caned this week for drinking beer after briefly detaining her, in an unexpected twist for Malaysia's first woman to face the corporal punishment
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Terminally Ill Lockerbie Bomber Released
World  (tags: scotland, release, terrorist, prison, violence, freedom )

Lone
- 96 days ago - cnn.com
GREENOCK, Scotland (CNN) -- The man convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing Pan Am flight 103 out of the sky above the Scottish town of Lockerbie two decades ago was on his way home to Libya on Thursday after authorities set him free.
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Sign Petition: Free US Journalists Euna Lee & Laura Ling
World  (tags: world, North, Korea, US, journalists, human, rights, freedom, women, government, crime, prison, justice, abuse, cruelty, trafficking, china, reporters, media, conflict )

Tom
- 166 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We call on the Government of North Korea to release Euna and Laura on humanitarian grounds. These women are wives, mothers, daughters, sisters; they are missed by their families and friends, who would like to see them safe and back at home.
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Sign Petition: Call for the Immediate Release of Aung San Suu Kyi and All Prisoners of Conscience in Myanmar
World  (tags: world, Aung, San, Suu, Kyi, nobel, peace, prize, justice, conscience, health, myanmar, military, junta, arrest, imprisonment, Insein, Prison, burma, human, rights, liberty, oppression, government, crime, politics, UnitedNations )

Tom
- 166 days ago - change.org
Suu Kyi has already spent much of the past 20 years under house arrest. Her prolonged imprisonment in Insein Prison, which has been referred to as the "darkest hell-hole in Burma," could effectively be a death sentence given her declining health.
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Sign Petition: Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
World  (tags: world, UN, Aung San Suu Kyi, MYANMAR, Nobel Peace Prize, Insein Prison, humanrights, freedom, ethics, asia, prison, democracy )

Tom
- 188 days ago - avaaz.org
Burma's brave democracy activists are calling on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to secure all 2,100 political prisoners release. He can make this a condition of any renewed international engagement. We have just six days to get Ban Ki Moon's attention.
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Sign Petition: Release of Aung San Suu Kyi and All Prisoners of Conscience in Myanmar
World  (tags: world, Aung San Suu Kyi, MYANMAR, Nobel Peace Prize, Insein Prison, humanrights, freedom, ethics, asia, prison, democracy )

Tom
- 188 days ago - takeaction.amnestyusa.org
Aung San Suu Kyi suffers from dehydration, low blood pressure and weight loss. Her medical condition makes her transfer to Insein Prison at this time dangerous. Please ask Myanmar's leaders to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all other prisoners of conscience.
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Take Action: Join the Ladies in White in Calling for Human Rights in Cuba
World  (tags: world, cuba, freedom, human rights, civil liberties, ladies in white, suppression, arrests, prison, government, corruption, castro )

Tom
- 235 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
In 2003, activists throughout Cuba were arrested by the government and summarily tried and sentenced to as many as 28 years in prison. Today, 54 of them remain in jail, many with severe illnesses they've developed from poor prison conditions.
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Take Action: Demand Release of Detained Colombian Activists, Victims of Baseless Prosecutions
World  (tags: world, columbia, prosecutions, prison, suppression, government, crime, corruption, politics, injustice, mine workers, activists, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', violence )

Tom
- 235 days ago - action.humanrightsfirst.org
Colombian prosecutors accuse human rights defenders of membership in a guerrilla organization and rely heavily on false testimony and inadmissible intelligence reports. Baseless prosecutions are attempts to silence and discredit human rights activists.
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Destroy Cartels With "Genius Bomb" of Marijuana Legalization
World  (tags: world economy, drug war, narco-terrorists, government, crime, corruption, politics, war, freedoms, jail, prison, freedom, civil rights )

Tom
- 252 days ago - azcentral.com
Consider the impact of eliminating the most profitable product the cartels sell. "Marijuana is the Mexican cartels' cash crop, the cash cow," says Brittany Brown of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington office.
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Sign Petition: Freedom of Religion for Native American Inmates
World  (tags: Obama, government, politics, Indigenous, Native Americans, Indians, schools, prison, freedom, society, culture, humans, human rights, religion, suicide, children, trauma, apology, United States, genocide, government, crime, ethics, terrorism, abuse )

Tom
- 256 days ago - petitiononline.com
This Leonard Peltier Defense Committee petition targets the United Nations Council on Human Rights, requesting UN international oversight and further investigation of the serious ongoing human rights violations of Native Americans in American prisons.
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What If We Legalized All Drugs? We Could Save $50 Billion!
World  (tags: world economy, drug war, narco-terrorists, government, crime, corruption, politics, war, freedoms, jail, prison, freedom, civil rights )

Tom
- 273 days ago - articles.moneycentral.msn.com
Every year, about 2 million people in the U.S. are arrested for drug offenses, including using or selling marijuana, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. A third of the country's prisoners are held on drug charges or for crimes attributed to drug abuse.
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How 5 Years Can Change a Person
World  (tags: person, five, bored, prison )

Veljko
- 336 days ago - bored-space.com
Five years may seem like a blink of an eye but this period can really leave some serious marks on a person's body.
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