The burden of death
While death penalty is still used in wide number of crimes, the number of sentences awarded has been falling steadily
ISLAMABAD:
Although Pakistan s justice system is facing severe criticism due to its failure to redress people’s grievances, international rights organisations have acknowledged the Supreme Court’s efforts to minimise the scope of death penalty for last one decade.
A study conducted by the Justice Project Pakistan revealed that Supreme Court of Pakistan set aside the death penalty in 78 per cent of cases between 2010 and 2018. On an even more uplifting note, 97 per cent of sentences were either commuted to life imprisonment or decided otherwise in 2018.
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A consultation event for impoverished Kurds is held in the city of Kawaguchi, in Saitama Prefecture, in November. | KYODO
Kyodo Feb 19, 2021
Saitama – For more than 15 years, a Kurdish man in his 50s who fled persecution in Turkey has been living in Japan. Since he is prohibited from working in the country, he has no income and must rely on his wife, who is also a foreign national and works at a factory to support him and their child.
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Indonesia is the latest government to propose a legal framework to coerce social media platforms, apps, and other online service providers to accept local jurisdiction over their content and users’ data policies and practices. And in many ways, its proposal is the most invasive of human rights.
This rush of national regulations started with Germany’s 2017 “NetzDG” law, which compels internet platforms to remove or block content without a court order and imposes draconian fines on companies that don’t proactively submit to the country s own content-removal rules. Since NetzDG entered into force, Venezuela, Australia, Russia, India, Kenya, the Philippines, and Malaysia have followed with their own laws or been discussing laws similar to the German example.
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Herdsmen killings: ECOWAS court fixes April for judgment in SERAP’s case
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
The ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja has fixed April 22, 2021, for judgment in the case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, against the Federal Government over the state of insecurity in the country.
SERAP, in the suit, is seeking justice and accountability for the authorities’ failure to prevent, account for and investigate killings, raping, maiming of Nigerians and other residents, and destruction of property across the country by herdsmen and other unknown perpetrators.
The court, after hearing arguments from Solicitor to SERAP, Femi Falana SAN, and the government lawyer Mr Adedayo Ogundele, on Friday, adjourned the suit film April.