by Sean Reilly | May 22, 2008
An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho – despite the church’s opposition to the death penalty. The Iraqi government said the criminal court had imposed the death...
by Sean Reilly | May 12, 2008
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is set to express its outright opposition to the death penalty for the first time. It has never previously resolved to oppose capital punishment ‘unequivocally’. At this year’s General Assembly (15 – 21 May) the Church...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 16, 2008
Join Amnesty’s campaign again torture. Click here for more details The global human rights group Amnesty International has called on the government of Iran to immediately abolish the “grotesque and horrific” practice of publicly stoning people to...
