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The Jewish Communal Statement Opposing the Death Penalty Bill in Israel, which went public last week, reveals the immense ...

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They've hung him upside down like a slab of meat. Stripped to his underwear. Arms bound tight with tape. Ankles lashed to a ...

The new consent decree ends five years of litigation, installs independent oversight of juvenile jail staff and ends solitary confinement as punishment on children. A group of Nelson Mullins lawyers ...

Critics warn that Iran's new criminal code legalises abuse, entrenches inequality and dismantles basic protections for women, children and minorities.

In the Lithuania that existed before the Second World War, a young veterinarian named Ksaveras Masanauskas was a lieutenant-colonel in the independent nation’s army. Then Adolf Hitler and ­Joseph ...