7th World Congress Speaks Against Death Penalty

7th World Congress Speaks Against Death Penalty
© UrduPoint

US Supreme Court Extends Eighth Amendment Protections to Prisoners with Dementia

Supreme Court Extends Eighth Amendment Protections to Prisoners with Dementia
© Equal Justice Initiative

Chief Justice John Roberts sides with liberals in death penalty case
© CNNPolitics

Death penalty: Filling Europe’s black hole

Death penalty: Filling Europe’s black hole
 
The 47-nation Council of Europe is co-organising a round table on capital punishment in Belarus on Thursday 28 February as part 
of the World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels.

© Council of Europe (press release)

Review of 2018: Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Review of 2018: Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
© Amnesty International

Drug offence executions more than halve in 2018 after Iran reform

Drug offence executions more than halve in 2018 after Iran reform
© Al Jazeera

2018 Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran

Iran: Annual report on the death penalty 2018

© Iran Human Rights

'We are now free': Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune

'We are now free': Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune

In Jinwar, north-eastern Syria, a pioneering group of women are rebuilding their lives away from the constraints of patriarchy
© The Guardian

Iraq to prosecute 13 French IS fighters seized in Syria: president

Iraq to prosecute 13 French IS fighters seized in Syria: president
© Al-Monitor

Sisi defends death penalty at summit with Europe

Sisi defends death penalty at summit with Europe
© Euronews

What we plant in the soil of contemplation,
we shall reap in the harvest of action.

- Meister Eckhart -

contemplation

playing contemplations with our city ...

Amoreiras Plaza, lisbon

Statement By UN Experts: Iran Must Stop Execution of Juvenile Offender Mohammad Kalhor

Statement By UN Experts: Iran Must Stop Execution of Juvenile Offender Mohammad Kalhor

Iran: Juvenile Offender at Imminent Danger of Execution Despite Being Mentally Unfit

© Iran Human Rights

Iran: Stop imminent execution of three prisoners arrested as teenagers
© Amnesty International

Sri Lanka: speak out against executions

sign & share !!!!!

Sri Lanka: speak out against executions
Amnesty International

No One Knows How Many Indigenous Women Are Missing or Murdered

No One Knows How Many Indigenous Women Are Missing or Murdered
 
The findings of a new study on missing and murdered urban Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit people are terrifying.

by Jen Deerinwater

© Truthout

Egypt hangs nine for 2015 murder of top prosecutor

Egypt hangs nine for 2015 murder of top prosecutor
© Al-Monitor

Egypt: Execution of nine men after an unfair trial a monumental disgrace
© Amnesty International

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stops executions for now

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stops executions for now
© Dayton Daily News
 
Gov. Mike DeWine freezes all Ohio executions while new method developed
© cleveland.com

The death penalty, an American tradition on the decline

The death penalty, an American tradition on the decline
© The Conversation US

Sri Lanka: Thirteen inmates definitely in line for the death penalty

Thirteen inmates definitely in line for the death penalty
© Sri Lanka Latest News

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone, you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.

- Mark Twain -

illusional

playing illusions with our city ...

Amoreiras Plaza, lisbon

Is Trump’s National Emergency a Step Toward Fascism?

Is Trump’s National Emergency a Step Toward Fascism?
by Mark Bray
© Truthout

we thought it was already Fascism !!!!!

Iran: Three inmates executed in Raja'i Shahr and Ardebil Prisons

Iran: Three inmates executed in Raja'i Shahr and Ardebil Prisons
© Iran Human Rights Monitor

it's Valentine ♥

oh yeah !!!!! lotssssssssssssssss of Love ♥♥
***^-^*** & mum

Egypt steps up executions as six people put to death within two weeks

Egypt steps up executions as six people put to death within two weeks
© Amnesty International

The Last Time the US Wanted a Wall, 70,000 People Were Sterilized

The Last Time the US Wanted a Wall, 70,000 People Were Sterilized
© Truthout

Domineque Ray Died So the Death Penalty Could Live

Domineque Ray Died So the Death Penalty Could Live
© The New Republic

Alabama’s execution of Muslim inmate angers those on right and left
© AL.com

Iraqi court sentences 6 brothers to death for joining Islamic State

Iraqi court sentences 6 brothers to death for joining Islamic State
© Iraqi News

Iranian Prosecutor: New Amnesty to Cover Large Number of Drug Convicts

Iranian Prosecutor: New Amnesty to Cover Large Number of Drug Convicts
© Tasnim News Agency

A Few Days More by Faiz

Only a few days, dear one, a few days more.
Under oppression’s shadows condemned to breathe,
Still for a time we must bear them, and tears, and endure
What our forefathers, not our own faults, bequeath:
Fettered limbs, each impulse held on a chain,
Minds in bondage, our words all watched and set down
Courage still nerves us, or how should we still exist,
Now with existence only a beggar’s gown,
Tattered, and patched every hour with new rags of pain?

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz -
 
excerpt from A Few Days More

February 13, 1911 - November 20, 1984

Pakistani leftist poet and author
and one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language.
 
FAIZ AHMED FAIZ - A Distinct Urdu Poet of Pakistan

Faiz Centenary Celebration 2011 - Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Aasia Bibi can't leave Pakistan despite acquittal

a nightmare !!!!! let Aasia go !!!!!

Aasia Bibi can't leave Pakistan despite acquittal
 
Christian woman cleared of blasphemy charges remains confined 
in Pakistan even though the government says she can leave.
© Al Jazeera

far side of the moon

photo by Dwingeloo Radio Observatory

there is no dark, only far !!!!!
& we are feeling truly small !!!!!

Chinese satellite captures stunning backside image of the Moon with Earth
© The Verge

Ohio’s Governor Stopped an Execution Over Fears It Would Feel Like Waterboarding

a must read

Ohio’s Governor Stopped an Execution Over Fears It Would Feel Like Waterboarding
© The Intercept

The Supreme Court just handed down a truly shocking attack on Muslims

The Supreme Court just handed down a truly shocking attack on Muslims
"Religious liberty" is a sham.
© ThinkProgress

Dominique Ray murdered by AL & Scotus

alone ... without an Imam ??? abominable bastards !!!!!
this is a clear attack to All Muslims
on AmeriKKKa death row !!!!!

Alabama executes Domineque Ray for 1995 killing of Selma teen
© Al.com
 
justice Elena Kagan issued a dissenting opinion. “Under [the state’s] policy, a Christian prisoner may have a minister of his own faith accompany him into the execution chamber to say his last rites. But if an inmate practices a different religion— whether Islam, Judaism, or any other — he may not die with a minister of his own faith by his side. That treatment goes against the Establishment Clause’s core principle of denominational neutrality,” she wrote.

In Alabama, a Muslim Man Was Denied the Presence of His Imam During His Execution
© American Civil Liberties Union

Sri Lanka President says death penalty within the next two months

Sri Lanka President says death penalty within the next two months, requests right groups not to appear for drug traffickers
© Colombo Page

40 years of crimes against humanity, the mullahs’ record

40 years of crimes against humanity, the mullahs’ record
© Iran Human Rights Monitor

Life convict tells about last death penalties in Russia

Life convict tells about last death penalties in Russia
© CrimeRussia

William S. Burroughs 105th Birthday

Burroughs by Juergen Vollmer, 1976

♥♥♥
 
❝ A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

 
❝ You are a Shit Spotter. It's satisfying work …
We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus.

- William S. Burroughs -

February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

 

William with his cats by Allen Ginsberg


William S. Burroughs

William Burroughs | The Guardian

William S. Burroughs and His Unabashed Love for Cats
© Johnny Times

Year of the Pig

♥♥♥♥ Happyyyyyyy Chinese Lunar New Year 4717 ♥♥♥♥

***^-^*** & mom

China Post issued these lovely stamps to welcome
the Year of the Earth Pig.

China issues special zodiac stamps in honor of Year of Pig
© China Daily

2019 Int. Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier

Feb. 6
 
Int. Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier

February 6, 2019 at 6 pm - 8 pm


Place de la Concorde
Paris, France

Rassemblement solidarité avec Leonard Peltier, Mumia, Red Fawn | Facebook
 
February 6, 2019, marks the 43rd anniversary of Leonard's arrest.

hide & seek

     all year round our path is made of bougainvilleas yay 

 
seek ... hide ... seek, Flora ;-)))))))))))))))))

miauuumi coldi, wheri mummiiiiiiiiiii ??? 
***^-^***

Israa al-Ghomgham: Saudi Female Activist Spared Death Penalty

Dear friends,
Thank you for the amazing support you have shown towards my case. My struggle is not over, I will still face years & years of imprisonment for my human rights work. My husband & the others who were part of my mass trial still have a death penalty recommendation.

Israa 

January 31, 2019
 
via Israa al-Ghomgham's support group | Twitter

Israa al-Ghomgham: Saudi Female Activist Spared Death Penalty Amid Outrage
© Newsweek

Saudi Arabia: Authorities must drop calls to execute peaceful protesters
© Amnesty International

Citing drug crime, Sri Lanka plans 1st executions since 1976

Citing drug crime, Sri Lanka plans 1st executions since 1976
© Vancouver Sun