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In September 2021, France will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty. A decision so powerful that it will symbolize François Mitterrand's first seven years in office. For Robert Badinter, it was the fight of a lifetime, rooted in a personal history marked by a rejection of injustice that began after his father's arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. A story told through archives and by his family and closest friends.

A selection of correspondence | Letters

In three decades of ANC rule, the promise of dismantling racial inequality has given way to a deliberate shift towards economic disparity.

The man who fought to abolish the death penalty in France died on February 9th, aged 95 | Obituary

Peter Conradi and Jeremy Clarkson both write of the merits of the death penalty — but neither gives a rounded picture of the issue.Reporting on the debate in France, Conradi (World News, last week)

A stateless Armenian poet who died fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II on Wednesday becomes the first non-French Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon mausoleum for national heroes.- Refugee turned fighter - Manouchian arrived in France as a young man in the mid-1920s, after fleeing World-War-I-era mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a child to French-mandate Lebanon.

A stateless Armenian poet who died fighting the Nazi occupation of France during World War II on Wednesday becomes the first non-French Resistance fighter to enter the Pantheon mausoleum for national heroes.

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The death in February of the man who abolished the death penalty inspired a national homage in France. Yet, Robert Badinter remains little known outside of the country.

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