Iraqi authorities are increasingly imposing the death penalty including after pretrial televised “confessions”, uninvestigated allegations of torture and unfair trials, according to a new report from Amnesty International.
Iraq has now become the country with the fourth highest number of executions after China, Iran and Pakistan, with the execution of at least 65 people last year.
BRUSSELS — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has slammed the actions of Sri Lanka?s defence secretary, who threatened a newspaper editor, as a shocking example of increasing political interference in Sri Lankan media.
BOAO, China — Deals amounting to close to $2 billion in Chinese investments in the Philippines are expected to be signed during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s short and abbreviated attendance at the 2007 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) which kicked off Friday in this scenic coastal town off China?s southernmost province of Hainan.
MANILA — The Human Development International Vanguard Corps for Peace and Development a volunteer organization ( www.humandevintl.com ) that is spearheading the Call to Save the Mountains of the World Initiative expresses sympathy to the family of Julia Campbell and the Peace Corps Volunteers for her untimely death.
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MANILA — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered today government troops to work on neutralizing the Abu Sayyaf Group terrorists as she condemned the beheading of the group?s seven captives in Sulu this week.
In a statement, the President said the “Abu Sayyaf?s acts of terror will not go unpunished” and that the government would deal with it as an internal security matter.