news - 22 February 2026 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

USA - Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 84

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news - 22 February 2026 - California

USA - California. Governor Newsom inaugurates the transformation of San Quentin

He calls it “the nation's most innovative rehabilitation facility.”

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news - 22 February 2026 - JAPAN

JAPAN: COURT REJECTS RETRIAL FOR MAN EXECUTED FOR 1992 CHILD MURDERS

The Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal on February 16, 2026 for a retrial for the 1992 murder of two 7-year-old girls in the city of Iizuka in Fukuoka Prefecture, for which a death row convict was executed.

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IRAN - 19 people arrested for participating in 40th day commemorations

22 February 2026

Lors in Khuzestan Province

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IRAN - Victim Accounts: 17-Year-Old Bahareh Shahmehri Shot Dead by Sniper

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IRAN - Javad Zarei executed in Torbat-e Heydarieh on February 19

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IRAN - Victim Accounts: Nighttime Burial of Mohammad Ranjbar Hosseinabadi

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.