Efforts to achieve the final wish of a serial killer continue even 20 years after his execution, with around 200 people gathering for a charity event on Saturday in Tokyo to raise money for underprivileged children.
Atheism remains one of the most extreme taboos in Saudi Arabia. It is a red line that no one may cross. Regarded on a par with terrorists, atheists in Saudi Arabia suffer imprisonment, marginalisation, slander, ostracisation and even execution. Efforts at normalisation between those who believe and those who don′t remain bleak.
Syrian sculptor Nizar Ali Badr has been capturing the story of refugees from his country, using pebbles from his local beach. His art has become the inspiration for a unique film -- the concept of Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, who asked Georgian animator Sandro Kancheli to bring the stone figures to life along with his music.
(RFE/RL's Georgian Service; producers Eka Kevanishvili and Toma Begiashvili)
❝ Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. from Narcissus and Goldmund
❝ I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me.
150th Anniversary of the Abolition of Death Penalty in Portugal
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Today, July 1, we are commemorating 150 years of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Portugal.
We have become the first sovereign nation in Europe to cease capital punishment and also one of the first in the world to do so. The Abolition was made in stages: for political crimes in 1852, for all crimes, except the military, in July 1, 1867.
Portugal last execution took place in April 22, 1846 (by hanging).
note ► Grand Duchy of Tuscany abolished the death penalty in November 30, 1786. Venezuela was the first country in the world to abolish death penalty in 1863, followed by San Marino in 1865.
A brief history of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Portugal (in portuguese)
i am an ethnologist and human rights activist, in the last years more than anything else against USA Death Penalty and for American Indians prisoners’ rights.
i write, i love to draw and take-create pictures but i’m not an artist .... i hope for a better world and i believe in Freedom, the one we make with our hands !!!
