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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Sri Lanka to stop sending maids to Middle East

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s1600/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTwFV2DRKH3a3ewZk37E4INxUhIpF-rhaSgQbEtm5mDjDY3TRFPvqunV1l5koakZhntkv094NIf23vlpCnJhCUhcIVZ464F6aPnI-xQVyJm2PKDcTajRaIg9gEavZMxV7yW7CQVNwz8w/s320/Maids+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Colombo says decision mainly due to rights abuses.</i><br /><br />Sri Lanka’s expatriate workers, mainly housemaids and unskilled labourers, send back remittances - the island nation’s main foreign exchange earner - that help earn around $7 billion (Dh25.71 billion) a year for the $82.2 billion economy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senaratne said President Maithripala Sirisena had appointed a committee to study strategies to reduce the numbers gradually and finally stop sending maids abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We want to discourage the housemaids category in foreign employment because the social cost is very high,” he told Reuters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human rights abuses and social costs due to rapes, drug addiction and child abuse in many families of housemaids, and labour shortage locally, have prompted the government to take such a decision, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The total number of departures for foreign employment declined by 12.4 per cent last year to 263,307, partly due to the slowdown of economic activities in the Middle East.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sri Lanka is already encouraging sending skilled male workers abroad instead of low-skilled women and housemaids.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, around 1,650 Sri Lankan housemaids complained of being physically and sexually abused by their employers, mainly in the Middle East, the latest data from the Foreign Employment Bureau showed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2013, the Saudis executed a young Sri Lankan housemaid for killing an infant left in her care, rejecting repeated appeals by the Indian Ocean island against her death sentence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colombo recalled its ambassador from Riyadh in protest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After their Sri Lankan maid complained of too much work in 2010, a Saudi couple tortured her by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead. The maid returned home.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year, however, Saudi authorities reduced a Sri Lankan maid’s sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Gulfnews, June 2, 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/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" 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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Saudi Court Sentences 14 to Death in Attacks on Security Forces

<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/AVvXsEh1sWepxbCQRdSjZ4dm0cWkez8sZzbfxJ16elNHL6Gg1i1fA7Z6l9VlZOW7aTfJc0W2hOU18rLoYwJPyG1Xo-w1IYPPyeYlYpx-Q-sPfh_ODx9MAd52ux6U5znzjH4oPFHhyFYRGfQGlSY/s1600/Public+execution+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Public execution in Saudi Arabia" border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1sWepxbCQRdSjZ4dm0cWkez8sZzbfxJ16elNHL6Gg1i1fA7Z6l9VlZOW7aTfJc0W2hOU18rLoYwJPyG1Xo-w1IYPPyeYlYpx-Q-sPfh_ODx9MAd52ux6U5znzjH4oPFHhyFYRGfQGlSY/s320/Public+execution+Saudi+Arabia.jpg" title="Public execution in Saudi Arabia" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Public execution in Saudi Arabia</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">RIYADH — A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 men to death on Wednesday in connection with attacks on security forces in a Shiite area in the country’s east, the Al Arabiya satellite network reported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of the 24 people tried, one was acquitted and nine others were given sentences ranging from three to 15 years, the network said. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those sentenced to death were accused of terrorism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The men were arrested a few years ago, when protests by members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority roiled the Qatif area of Eastern Province, leading to clashes with the security forces that left dead about 20 protesters and a number of police officers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many Shiites complain of discrimination in the Sunni-majority kingdom whose official creed considers some Shiite beliefs and practices heretical.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Saudi government characterized the protesters as rioters who harbored armed groups, and it has put some of them on trial on charges that include terrorism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Western human rights groups have accused the Saudi government of using the courts to stifle dissent and convicting activists on trumped up charges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The executions could escalate tensions with Saudi Arabia’s regional Shiite rival, Iran. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saudi Arabia’s execution of an outspoken Shiite cleric in January sparked protests in Tehran, and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties after protesters stormed its embassy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The men’s death sentences can be appealed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/world/middleeast/saudi-shiites-death-sentences.html" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, Ben Hubbard, June 1, 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/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" 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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