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. | “Life prisoners’ demand for a commutation to 15 years in jail is baseless legally groundless,” said Ali Huseynov, chair of the Azerbaijan’s parliament commission for law and government affairs. He added that Azerbaijan changed death sentence to life sentence and there is no contradiction of law. |
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. | In an interview published in a Palestinian magazine Saturday, Haniyeh said Saudi Arabia and Egypt in particular should reconsider their decision to attend the conference. He also said Palestinians do not have much hope that the meetings will accomplish anything.
In Jerusalem Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks about |
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. | “Under the current conditions, people like me who work peacefully and are involved in civil society cannot do anything meaningful — sitting at home [and] reading and writing for myself has been the only thing I’ve been able to do for the past year — since I was released [from jail],” Tabarzadi says. “The only [platform for expression] that I have now is a blog, and there’s been pressure from [officials] to shut it down. I think that as long |
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. | Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf won most votes in a presidential election on Saturday but he must wait for the Supreme Court to confirm the legality of his bid before being declared the winner.
His landslide in an election largely boycotted by the opposition was widely expected. Members of the two-chamber parliament and four provincial assemblies voted for president. |