ISIS executes 5 media activists in Syria

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOlci_dLDKo5t0XX55J49nmhm_us5wE21kzp8fQ9FLukWWTxMhlQotAlNQBm0h3vhg_YioNjckE7XTszxhoQ4iye3tPtDK6NtRfs6jkMvHL7nzxMGEIcYs1LLzHUbN_D0jJaE1llEdaI/s1600/ISIS+members.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="ISIS members (file photo)" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOlci_dLDKo5t0XX55J49nmhm_us5wE21kzp8fQ9FLukWWTxMhlQotAlNQBm0h3vhg_YioNjckE7XTszxhoQ4iye3tPtDK6NtRfs6jkMvHL7nzxMGEIcYs1LLzHUbN_D0jJaE1llEdaI/s400/ISIS+members.jpg" title="ISIS members (file photo)" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ISIS members (file photo)</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The Islamic State murdered 5 Syrian media activists as it continues its assault on the press, maintaining tight control of the message that comes out of regions under the terrorist group's control.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has viewed a video released by ISIS in Deir Ezzor, in eastern Syria. The video shows the execution of five media activists via 5 different, sadistic methods.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The militants also issued a warning that any journalists or media activists opposed to the group and working to reveal their crimes are not safe, even outside of Syria. They cite the killing of Mohammed Zaher al-Shirqat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shirqat worked for Halab Today TV, an independent satellite channel from Aleppo. He was shot in the neck at close range on the street in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in early April. He had previously received death threats from ISIS, who claimed responsibility for his murder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United States condemned the killing. "Freedom of the press, including ensuring that journalists can safely report on the crisis in Syria, remains critical as reporters keep working to expose the truth about this brutal conflict and Daesh's atrocities," reads a statement issued by John Kirby, Assistant Secretary and Department Spokesperson for the US state department. "[W]e stand ready to support Turkey as it works to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on the media."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 5 media activists killed in Deir Ezzor were executed on charges of "acting against the Islamic State, communicating with outside parties and receiving funds, and other charges," reported the Observatory on Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Islamic State has murdered at least 3 other journalists in Turkey. The media advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) has urged Turkey to "take whatever measures are necessary to guarantee the security of Syrian exile journalists."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: rudaw.net, June 26, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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Japan: Bar association chief criticizes naming of man sentenced to death

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjb1lmtiJ1Yf8_m7BvppgJDsgF90G5hZ2E6szy9UYfsoQ82HXMmyN1B2HPfQ7XiYFbPKbqHJDXTgGoe7QlrMOxqx3Qu1TVnyxVfJjaB3KpNAa91zAYrgsMvfAlNpiceQZvscRDzP-DmDY/s1600/Osaka+Prison+cell+block+where+prisoners+are+held+in+solitary+confinement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Typical death-row cell, Osaka Prison" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjb1lmtiJ1Yf8_m7BvppgJDsgF90G5hZ2E6szy9UYfsoQ82HXMmyN1B2HPfQ7XiYFbPKbqHJDXTgGoe7QlrMOxqx3Qu1TVnyxVfJjaB3KpNAa91zAYrgsMvfAlNpiceQZvscRDzP-DmDY/s400/Osaka+Prison+cell+block+where+prisoners+are+held+in+solitary+confinement.jpg" title="Typical death-row cell, Osaka Prison" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical death-row cell, Osaka Prison</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">TOKYO — The head of the Japanese bar association on Friday criticized news organizations that reported the name of a man sentenced to death for a double murder committed when he was a juvenile.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It is regrettable that the news reports violated the juvenile law, which bans publishing articles and photographs that could identify a juvenile delinquent,” Kazuhiro Nakamoto, president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, said in a statement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The statement was issued after the Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings that sentenced to death the man who was 18 when he killed two women and seriously injured a man in 2010.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Major newspapers including the Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkei, as well as Kyodo News published the man’s name on the grounds that the opportunity for rehabilitation ends when a death penalty is finalized, and the name of a person to be executed by the state should not be kept confidential.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some other major newspapers, including the Mainichi and the Tokyo Shimbun, reported the Supreme Court decision without revealing the name of the man to be executed, saying the chance for his rehabilitation remains due to the possibility of amnesty or retrial.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nakamoto said the dignity and the constitutionally guaranteed right to the pursuit of happiness of a minor are not terminated with the finalization of a death sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“While it is needless to say that constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression is important and it is necessary to report the details of a crime in order to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents, it cannot be said the real name and photo of a minor are indispensable factors for news reports,” the national bar association head said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/bar-association-chief-criticizes-naming-of-man-sentenced-to-death" target="_blank">Japan Today</a>, June 18, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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