DEATH PENALTY
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HUMAN RIGHTS
US to facilitate federal death penalty, including ‘execution by firing squad’
US Justice Department has decided to facilitate the implementation of federal death-penalty.
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LEBANON
Nasrallah: Unfolding developments suggest imminent collapse of Israeli regime
The Hezbollah chief says the course of developments in the occupied Palestinian territories indicates the imminent collapse of the Israeli regime.
PALESTINE
Israel will pay price for death penalty bill: Palestinian official
The head of the Commission of Detainees Affairs says Israel’s passing of a bill that will legalize the death penalty against Palestinian prisoners sheds light on the true nature of the occupying regime.
POLITICS
Iran slams West’s double standards, says maintaining security primary duty
Tehran says governments that have resorted to violence to counter peaceful demands of their people cannot comment on Iran’s enforcement of the law.
PERSIAN GULF
UK broke own rules by funding Bahrain despite unjustified death terms: Rights groups
The UK government appears to have breached its own guidelines by providing millions in funding to Bahrain despite unjustified death penalties in the kingdom.
EGYPT
Egypt court sentences 10 Brotherhood members to death
Of the ten convicts, nine were in custody while one was sentenced in absentia.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Botched execution: Outcry after US inmate dies vomiting, convulsing
The lethal injection ended a six-year moratorium on executions in Oklahoma that was put in place following a series of flawed executions.
PERSIAN GULF
‘Death penalties in Bahrain rose by 600% since 2001 anti-regime uprising’
According to a new report, some 88 percent of men executed in Bahrain since 2011 were convicted of “terror” charges, and 100 percent of them alleged custodial torture
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