Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
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Human rights groups have condemned the amputation punishments and the 23 disclosed executions this year.
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Iran was accused of supplying weapons to the Taliban on Saturday after security forces found dozens of Iranian-made mines in a rebel cache in western Afghanistan.
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Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
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BISHKEK, Jan 29 (IPS) - The central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has  adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of  life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code  replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad  with long prison terms.
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Israel's central Holocaust memorial  said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of  other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web  site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.
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BAGHDAD -- Death squads move with impunity after curfew. Abductions are rampant, but kidnappers are rarely caught. Corruption has poisoned government, yet few have faced criminal charges.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain. But like so much in Iraq, the rituals of death have been knocked awry by violence.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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Amnesty International urges Iran to drop death by stoning, a fate the rights group says awaits 11 people.
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Fifty-nine people died and more than 200  were injured on Monday when a faulty electrical heater started  a blaze in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major  Shi'ite Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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Iran hanged three men in public on Thursday for raping and robbing twelve young women, most of them university students, Iranian media reported, in the latest of a series of executions in the Islamic Republic.
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Iran has hanged three drug smugglers in  a public square in the southern province of Kerman, the  Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper reported on Saturday.
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BANGKOK, November 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Amid mounting fears of spreading violence across Thailand over the killings of scores of Thai Muslims by security forces, a local Buddhist official was beheaded in what seems a revenge act for the
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YALA, Thailand  - Four Muslims were killed -- and one of them beheaded -- and two soldiers were wounded seriously in two attacks in Thailand's rebellious Muslim-majority far south, police said on Tuesday. Three village security guards and a village headman were ambushed and shot dead in Yala, one of the three southern provinces caught up in nearly four years of separatist insurgency in which more than 2,100 people have been killed.
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Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death.
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Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa.