Uganda. Intercourse with a girl below the age of 16 is statutory rape in Pakistan, but in most cases a falsified conversion certificate and Islamic marriage certificate influence police to pardon kidnappers. Morning Star News, March 12, 2012,
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On March 20, a court changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011 .. Such petitions are seen often as a service to Islam and as jihad or holy war against blasphemers. according to the report. Union of Catholic Asian News, March 29, 2021,
Pakistan. [O]rthodox Muslims demand to make capital punishment the only penalty for blasphemy .. The courts increasingly seem to be complying. Union of Catholic Asian News, March 29, 2021,
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Labor says it will invest almost $80 million to combat the ongoing national crisis of Indigenous deaths in custody.
The pledge coincides with the 30th anniversary of the landmark report handed down following the Royal Commission into Indigenous deaths in custody.
Labor s Indigenous Australians spokesperson Linda Burney said their plan would work to tackle the root causes of crime and recidivism and to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates. There has been an explosion of First Nations people in custody since the royal commission, Ms Burney told reporters in Western Australia. We want to keep people out of custody.
“There has been an explosion of First Nations people in custody since the Royal Commission,” @LindaBurneyMP says in Perth. Federal Labor has announced $90m in funding to reduce Aboriginal incarceration @NITV@SBSNewspic.twitter.com/ga3fgrm7ER Aaron Fernandes (@az journalist) April 15, 2021
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Genocidal? Who, us? It was an extraordinary day in the annals of Australiaâs national life. Chinaâs representative in Australia opened his home to reporters on Wednesday to persuade them that the Beijing government wanted only the best for its Uighur ethnic minority in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.
The government of the US, the parliaments of Canada and the Netherlands and Britainâs House of Lords have damned Chinaâs treatment of its Uighur people as the gravest possible crime against humanity â genocide. Neither Australiaâs government nor Parliament has done so. Yet.