Tag: Executions
The French Revolution executed royals and nobles, yes – but most...
ANALYSIS: By Claire Rioult, Monash University and Romain Fathi, Flinders University
For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of...
Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’
Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media...
Palestinian ‘executed’ at point-blank range by Israeli border police
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yumma Patel of Mondoweiss
A Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli border police officer at point blank range on...
The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of...
ANALYSIS: By Giacomo Lichtner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
During the anti-lockdown protests at Parliament last year, I was told about a...
PNG’s death penalty law repealed in shake up over criminal justice
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's death penalty Act of 1984 has been repealed by the National Parliament and all prisoners on death row...
Tongan talk of the death penalty for worst drug offenders
RNZ Pacific
The Tongan legislature is now considering the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Bill 2021, which was introduced as a private members' bill by the...
Court lifts temporary block to PNG executions after 70 years –...
By Trevor Wahune in Port Moresby
A five-man Supreme Court bench has quashed by a majority decision National Court temporary orders that have stayed the...
Scrap workers deal with Saudi Arabia following execution, says Jakarta NGO
By Dian Septiari in Jakarta
The Migrant CARE advocacy group has called on Indonesia's Manpower Ministry to cancel a recent agreement with Saudi Arabia to...
Terror in Indonesia – the threat posed by returning Islamic State...
By Jewel Topsfield of The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta
Heru Kurnia, an Indonesian who joined Islamic State in Syria, is describing watching children kick...
Brother seeks answers from Australia over NZ death at Balibo
The Death of the Balibo Five ... a Footprint Films extra including clips from the film Balibo and interviews with the film director, Robert...
Philippines move to restore death penalty bill wins House support
Rappler's Evening wRap on President Duterte and the death penalty.
By Mara Cepeda in Manila
A proposed measure seeking to reimpose the death penalty in the...
Indonesia executes four convicted drug traffickers on penal island
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reporting from Jakarta on the international appeals to halt the Indonesian executions. Video: Al Jazeera on YouTube
The Indonesian government has...
Indonesian executions will put Jokowi on wrong side of history, says...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi", will be putting his government on the wrong side of history if he proceeds with a...
Indonesia’s Jokowi to go all out to ‘smash’ drug dealers
By Haeril Halim in Jakarta and Margareth S. Aritonang in Oslo
As a third round of executions nears, Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has commemorated...
Crispin C. Maslog: Open letter to Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte
OPINION: By Crispin C. Maslog in Manila
Let me start by saying I was not your best fan during the elections. I normally do not...
Death penalty has no deterrent effect, say Indonesian activists
The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty in Indonesia, showing that capital punishment is not that effective...
Indonesia’s death penalty lies in wait in spite of diplomatic blowback
Report from SBS
Indonesia's attorney-general has the funds and the will to wield the death penalty again, even though last year's record 14 executions failed...
