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10 october 2023 - 08:48:13Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Marking World Day against the Death Penalty on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) and the Council [...] Full text...
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Marking World Day against the Death Penalty on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) and the Council [...] Full text...
US State Department aware of detention of American in Tripoli, Libya
13 april 2023 - 13:35:08Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US State Department has said it is aware of reports of an American being held [...] Full text...
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Libyan activists detained for inciting atheism and insulting Islam
26 march 2022 - 13:22:44Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the Libyan "Haraket Attenwir" (Enlightenment Movement) have been detained on the orders of Libya's [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: HRW calls for release of detainees accused of blasphemy
19 october 2020 - 23:21:26Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human Right Watch (HRW), a rights non-governmental organisation, Monday called on the Mauritanian government to drop [...] Full text...
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Human Rights Watch wants repressive laws in Mauritania repealed
01 august 2020 - 15:21:26Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The human rights organization, Human Right Watch (HRW), on Saturday urged the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Cheikh [...] Full text...
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Tunisian security arrest Takfiri implicated in bomb attack
14 may 2020 - 10:42:22Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian security units on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old Takfiri in Hammamet, 80 km southeast of Tunis, [...] Full text...
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Rights group slams Mauritania for repressive laws
18 january 2019 - 05:04:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Mauritanian authorities used a litany of harsh and overbroad laws on terrorism, cybercrime, apostasy, and criminal [...] Full text...
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Rights group says Mauritania activist charged for decrying racism
21 september 2018 - 08:17:08Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A Mauritanian criminal court has charged an activist with incitement to violence and racial hatred for [...] Full text...
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UN experts urge immediate release of detained Mauritanian blogger
08 may 2018 - 18:58:09Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concerns about the continued detention [...] Full text...
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Rights group says Mauritania human rights defenders at risk
12 february 2018 - 15:32:43Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania’s human rights defenders face repression when they raise the country’s most sensitive social issues, Human [...] Full text...
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Rights group criticises Mauritania on new ‘Apostasy’ Draft Law
05 december 2017 - 07:12:05Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday asked Mauritanian parliamentarians to reject a new draft law that [...] Full text...
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Rights groups say death sentence on Mauritanian blogger should be quashed
07 november 2017 - 07:11:36Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania must immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Mohamed Mkhaïtir, who has been sentenced to [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Amnesty International criticises human rights in Mauritania
24 february 2017 - 12:04:44Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International says the human rights situation in Mauritanian has "deteriorated" with repressive [...] Full text...
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US: UN expert hails US move placing atheists on equal footing with faith groups
28 december 2016 - 16:41:51New York, US (PANA) - A United Nations human rights expert on freedom of religion or belief has welcomed the [...] Full text...
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Libya: Rights group calls for medical care, safety for civilians fleeing Sirte
26 december 2016 - 07:50:37Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A human rights group, Human Rights Watch, says Libyan authorities should ensure the safety of and [...] Full text...
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UN: UN human rights office condemns death sentence on Mauritanian blogger
26 april 2016 - 18:27:16New York, US (PANA) - UN human rights office (UNHCR) on Tuesday deplored the confirmation of the death sentence for apostasy [...] Full text...
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Senegal: AI says Mauritania must quash death sentence against blogger
20 april 2016 - 17:57:29Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Mauritania must quash the death sentence handed down to a blogger for apostasy and release [...] Full text...
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US: US Commission on Religious Freedom condemns Sudan over indictment of 25 muslims
22 december 2015 - 14:36:46New York, US (PANA) - The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday condemned the Sudanese government for [...] Full text...
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UN: UN official reports decline in number of countries carrying out executions
05 november 2015 - 17:27:04New York, US (PANA) - Ahead of the launch of a new book by the UN on the global trend [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Finance Minister sued over missing 30 trillion naira
03 march 2015 - 14:39:07Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued Minister of Finance [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO sues Apex bank over Boko Haram
14 october 2014 - 14:11:43Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to [...] Full text...
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Sudan: EU commends Sudanese govt. for allowing woman in apostasy case to leave
24 july 2014 - 17:56:12Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Thursday commended the Sudanese government for allowing the cleared of apostasy [...] Full text...
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UN: Ban says death penalty has no place in the 21st century
03 july 2014 - 18:23:47New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says the death penalty has no place in the 21st century, [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Family not happy with acquittal of woman convicted for apostasy
27 june 2014 - 13:05:07Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - In a bizarre twist to the acquittal of a woman who was sentenced to death for [...] Full text...
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Sudan: FM summons South Sudan, USA diplomats over apostasy case
25 june 2014 - 20:01:57Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the charges d'affaires of the United States of America and [...] Full text...
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Sudan: EU elated at release of woman accused of apostasy
24 june 2014 - 17:34:10Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Tuesday commended the acquittal and subsequent release of a Sudanese woman, [...] Full text...
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US: US welcomes release of woman on death row over apostasy
24 june 2014 - 10:03:34Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has welcomed the decision by the Sudanese Appeals Court to order the release [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Appeal court orders immediate release of accused in apostasy case
23 june 2014 - 16:40:00Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese court of Appeal on Monday ordered the immediate release of the Sudanese lady sentenced [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Opposition attacks apostasy ruling, says it pulls Sudan back to Taliban era
17 june 2014 - 15:31:03Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese Islamist opposition party surprised observers on Tuesday when it said it was against the [...] Full text...
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UN: Human Rights office urges Mauritanian authorities to protect threatened activist
14 june 2014 - 15:50:05New York, US (PANA) - The UN human rights office has urged Mauritania to protect prominent human rights activist Aminetou [...] Full text...
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Sudan: EU, religious leaders want apostasy verdict revoked
11 june 2014 - 12:47:45Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has called on the Sudanese government to revoke what it described as [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Women protest call to kill human rights activist
09 june 2014 - 18:14:50Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Several dozens of women on Monday demonstrated around the Mauritanian Presidential Palace in protest against calls [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Human rights group condemns 'fatwa' against rights activist
08 june 2014 - 14:24:58Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human rights organizations in Mauritania have condemned the ''fatwa'' issued against one of their members, Aminetou [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Ruling party slams Cameron's demand for release of apostasy convict
03 june 2014 - 11:13:16Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has strongly condemned what it termed the intervention by British [...] Full text...
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Tanzania: Canadian bishops appeal for release of Sudanese mother sentenced to death
29 may 2014 - 10:34:55Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined in [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Woman on death row gives birth in prison clinic
29 may 2014 - 10:09:06Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy has given birth to a healthy [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Calls mount to free convicted pregnant woman
23 may 2014 - 16:36:38Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Lawyers have confirmed to Amnesty International that an appeal has been lodged against the conviction of [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Govt. warns media to "keep off the red line"
20 may 2014 - 14:18:32Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese presidency has warned the media in the country against any "mishandling of issues [...] Full text...
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Sudan: EU dismayed at apostasy ruling against woman
18 may 2014 - 15:59:01Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union has expressed dismay at the sentence to flogging and death against a young [...] Full text...
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UN: Human Rights office concerned over Sudanese woman facing death for apostasy
16 may 2014 - 22:15:59New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday voiced deep [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Apostasy convict to appeal court verdict
16 may 2014 - 19:01:29Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's parliamentary speaker has said the lady tried and found guilty of apostasy could appeal the [...] Full text...
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Sudan: Man jailed for faith abuse, pardoned for renouncing apostasy
13 may 2014 - 13:38:33Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese man barely escaped death by hanging when he renounced apostasy at the last moment [...] Full text...
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Mauritania: Man faces death sentence for apostasy
07 january 2014 - 12:17:59Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Twenty-eight-year-old Mauritanian Cheikh Ould Mohamed M’Kheitir has been arrested for publishing blasphemous statements about Prophet [...] Full text...
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Gaddafi condemns confession
25 february 2010 - 23:20:00Benghazi- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Moammar Gaddafi, on Thursday said P rophet Mohammed did not advocate Shiism, Sunnism [...] Full text...
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