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North Korea doctors who perform illegal abortions are to be even more severely punished under a new law, sources in the country say.
The report from Radio Free Asia comes at a time when Pyongyang is enforcing the death penalty as a form of punishment for illegal manufacturers of drugs and opiates.
Doctors in North Korea who perform abortions at the homes of patients for about $18-45 per case are the state's latest focus, a source in Yangkang Province told RFA.
DECADES before he murdered four people outside the Houses of Parliament, Khalid Masood was a schoolboy from well-to-do Tunbridge Wells named Adrian Russell Ajao. Investigators may never learn the true motives for his attack. But one of the few facts known for certain is that Masood’s case fits into a broad but poorly understood trend: Muslim converts in the West are much likelier than their native-born co-religionists to engage in terrorism, or travel abroad to fight for jihadist organisations like Islamic State (IS).
In Britain, converts make up less than 4% of Muslims but 12% of home-grown jihadists. About a fifth of American Muslims were raised in another religion, yet two-fifths of those arrested on suspicion of being IS recruits in 2015 were converts (see chart). In France, Germany and the Netherlands, converts are around four times as likely as lifelong Muslims to go to fight in Syria and Iraq.
North Carolina lawmakers have approved the repeal of a controversial law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
A key element banned transgender people from using toilets in accordance with their chosen gender, earning the measure the "bathroom law" tag.
The state House of Representatives and the Senate cleared the repeal bill after reaching a late-night deal.
The deal came hours before the state was to lose key basketball fixtures.
"Do you want to kill ex-Muslims?" to which the reply came "Islam is clear that apostates do attract capital punishment, we don’t shy away from that." The location was not Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, but a public library in Sydney, Australia where Hezb ut Tahrir were holding a public meeting.
Speakers are no platformed at university. Sir Tim Hunt, the President of the Royal Society was forced to resign for noting that women fell in love in laboratories; street preachers are sentenced for quoting the bible; climate change or evolution cannot be challenged without severe consequences for their critics.
At a special lecture on March 21 at Wycliffe Hall Oxford, Professor Sir Roger Scruton offered a profound analysis of the upsurge of such cases after multiple 'phobias' were discovered following September 11, 2017.
He suggested that protected beliefs relate to the identity of people and communities where what matters is not whether something is true or false but whether it is life-enhancing. Such beliefs are not arrived at by reasoning or observation – but by inheritance, conversion or revelation. To lose such a belief is a radical existential change.
The phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" has been the subject of renewed debate in recent weeks. During his first address to Congress last month, President Trump said that his administration "is taking steps to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism." The president’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, warned that the expression could alienate allies within the Muslim community, while the deputy assistant to the president, Sebastian Gorka, tweeted that the words "radical Islamic terrorism" are "key to Victory against Global Jihadism."
A Christian campaigner is welcoming the High Court's decision to throw out a bid to change the law on assisted dying by a man with terminal motor neuron disease.
67 year old Noel Conway was diagnosed in 2014 and isn't expected to live beyond the next 12 months.
He wanted people with six months left to be allowed to choose how to end their own lives if they meet certain criteria.
A legal attempt to let pupils decide whether they want to opt out of religious observance has been shelved after ministers issued new guidance to headteachers directing that children should be consulted about statutory worship, The Herald reports.
The Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) had sought judicial review of the current rules which only allow parents to opt out on behalf of their children.
But while ministers have said children should now be consulted, the HSS said the move did not go far enough.
A Christian MP is condemning a new report which shows people who voted to leave the EU are also more likely to support the return of the death penalty and corporal punishment in schools.
The YouGov poll of 2,000 people found almost four in ten people would like to bring back the death penalty while a quarter said they'd welcome the return of corporal punishment.
The survey also split Remainers and Leavers on things like going back to dark blue passports and imperial measurements.
For most people it takes nothing more than a mindless flick of a pen, but for thousands of people in the transgender community selecting an appropriate title when filling out forms is not so simple.
When asked to choose between ticking "Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms", many individuals who do not identify with a particular gender have for decades felt forced into choosing the wrong box.
But finally it appears that their voice is starting to be heard and the conundrum addressed.