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...House of Lords, Britain's highest court, delivered a landmark ruling on July 30 when it said that the nation's assisted-suicide law must be clarified to spell out the circumstances under which authorities will prosecute someone who helps another person end their life...
...near Zurich. But so far, no one who has accompanied a person to Dignitas has faced prosecution after returning to the U.K. The vagueness of the law pushed Debbie Purdy, a British woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who plans to end her life at the clinic, to approach the court about forcing prosecutors to state whether her husband Omar would face jail time if he accompanied her to Switzerland. (Read "Going Too Far with Assisted Suicide...
After the court issued its decision, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said he would immediately begin drafting an interim policy to specify in what instances prosecutions should or should not be brought. He plans to complete those guidelines by September, and to issue a final version by the spring...
...clarity of Britain's assisted-suicide law. In a similar case eight years ago, Diane Pretty, who had motor neuron disease, wanted to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her die at home or accompanied her to an assisted-suicide clinic abroad. But the court rejected her request for clarification, and her illness took her life...
Even as he is in the sights of the hard-liners, former President Khatami has declared the trials "unconstitutional" - and the outrage will undoubtedly fuel further street demonstrations. The court proceedings will resume on Thursday, adding to a week in which Ahmadinejad is to be inaugurated to a controversial second term on Wednesday. Already, one more chant has been added to the nightly ritual of shouting Allahu akbar (God is great) and "Death to the dictators" from across Tehran's rooftops: "Free political prisoners...