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One dead as Bangladesh Islamists protest death penalty
AFP, Published on 18/09/2013
» One person was killed in Bangladesh on Wednesday as violent protests erupted across the country after a court sentenced a senior Islamist leader to death for mass murder, police said.
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Indian court upholds 2003 Mumbai bombers death penalty
AFP, Published on 11/02/2012
» An Indian court has upheld death sentences handed down to three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 in the nation's financial hub Mumbai in 2003.
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Mumbai gunman appeals against death penalty
AFP, Published on 31/01/2012
» The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks began a Supreme Court appeal against his death sentence on Tuesday by claiming that he had not received a fair trial.
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Mumbai gunman death penalty appeal adjourned
AFP, Published on 31/01/2012
» India's Supreme Court adjourned an appeal hearing on Tuesday into the death sentence handed down to the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Four get death penalty for Chinese sailor deaths
AFP, Published on 06/11/2012
» Four members of a gang accused of masterminding the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year were sentenced to death by a court in southwest China on Tuesday.
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Calls to abolish death penalty in Japan as Francis visit looms
AFP, Published on 22/11/2019
» TOKYO - On the eve of a visit by Pope Francis to Japan, activists called Friday on the government to declare a moratorium on executions as part of an Olympic truce to mark Tokyo 2020.
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Iranian dissident, teen abortion drama take top prizes at Berlin film fest
AFP, Published on 01/03/2020
» BERLIN: Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof on Saturday won the top prize at the Berlin film festival for "There Is No Evil", a searingly critical work about the death penalty in his country.
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Philippines votes in polls expected to strengthen Duterte
AFP, Published on 13/05/2019
» MANILA: Filipinos vote Monday in midterm polls that are expected to strengthen President Rodrigo Duterte's grip on power, opening the way for him to deliver on pledges to restore the death penalty and rewrite the constitution.
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Japan public sceptical on death penalty: study
AFP, Published on 20/02/2014
» Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Turkey: 6,000 detained, death penalty sought
AFP, Published on 18/07/2016
» ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities pressed on Sunday with a ruthless crackdown against suspects in the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with 6,000 people detained as he vowed to stamp out the "virus" of the coupmakers.
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