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• Saudi blogger’s wife says global pressure could force his release

  17-01-2015 21:26
  
  Leaders urged to ditch kingdom’s oil ‘muzzle’ to free writer sentenced to weekly floggingsThe wife of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi has called on the international community to pressure the Saudi Arabian authorities to release her husband, after his public flogging was postponed this weekend.Ensaf Haidar was told that the second part of her husband’s punishment, due to take place on Friday after prayers, had been delayed because a doctor had judged that the injuries he had suffered from
  
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• Georgia sets execution date for Warren Hill

  17-01-2015 19:00
  
  Despite expert testimony, Warren Hill will die 27 January as state says he cannot prove ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ he has an intellectual disabilityGeorgia, the state with the strictest standard for determining if a defendant is too mentally impaired to be put to death, has set an execution date for a man doctors and courts have found to be intellectually disabled.Warren Hill is scheduled to be put to death on 27 January. He was sentenced to death after killing two people. In 1986, he kille
  
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• UK prison drug seizures on the rise, new figures show

  17-01-2015 12:53
  
  Almost 4,500 instances of substances being taken from inmates in 2013/14, compared with just under 3,800 in 2010/11The number of illegal drug seizures in prisons in England and Wales is on the rise, according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice.There were almost 4,500 instances of substances being taken from inmates in 2013/14, compared with just under 3,800 in 2010/11, according to statistics given in response to a parliamentary question. Continue reading...
  
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• BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland - Belfast Telegraph

  17-01-2015 10:25
  
  Belfast Telegraph
  BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland
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  It states: "The BBC may, in certain circumstances, authorise under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and Regulation of Investigatory Powers (British Broadcasting Corporation) Order 2001 the lawful use of detection equipment to detect ...
  
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• Cab rank rule still a 'cardinal principle' - minister

  17-01-2015 10:00 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Faulks accepts fees have fallen in real terms and remain ‘extremely modest’.
  
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• Cannabis does little harm, say advisors to government: From the archive, 17 January 1979

  17-01-2015 06:30
  
  Expert sub-committee finds that occasional moderate use isn’t harmful and recommends home secretary should soften the law
  Tentative proposals to make slight cuts in cannabis penalties are being presented to the Home Secretary by his advisers this week. Behind the proposals lies the opinion of an expert sub-committee, which in an as yet unpublished report, says in effect that smoking cannabis does no particular harm.Professor J.P.D. Graham, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Wales,
  
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• Assisted dying bill held up in the House of Lords

  17-01-2015 01:02
  
  Legislation to give terminally ill patients the right to die unlikely to be passed before May general election
  A bill aiming to give terminally ill patients the right to die is unlikely to pass through parliament before May’s general election, after a debate in the Lords only managed to address a handful of over 150 amendments to be discussed.The assisted dying bill, proposed by former Labour lord chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton, would provide “competent” adults who have less than si
  
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• Nationwide same sex marriage could prove that Roe was the right decision all along | Scott Lemieux

  17-01-2015 00:24
  
  Same sex couples in Alabama should never have beeen denied rights that citizens in New York and Iowa were properly grantedUS supreme court agrees to hear cases on right to same-sex marriage nationwide
  Just two years after a US supreme court ruling paved the way for a variety of rulings invalidating states’ same sex marriage bans, the court on Friday agreed to hear appeals to four subsequent lower court decisions holding that state bans on same sex marriage unconstitutional. If, as court-watche
  
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