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But is European tolerance more threatened by hijab head-scarf, or even the face-covering niqab - and the Islamic fundamentalism and subjugation of women critics ascribe to these symbols - or by the hypocrisy and low-grade xenophobia of those telling Muslim women that this attack on their religious practice is...
The video is low on action: In fact, it shows Royal addressing a closed meeting of officials of her party, making a statement that would be considered a political liability only in France. There were no nasty aspersions nor revelations about her home life. She merely proposed that middle school...
More profound than the legal impact of this week's legislative tinkering may be the message it sends. According to Liu Renwen, a legal scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the move serves as an important indicator of the attitude of China's leadership. "It expresses the government...
China's leaders hope that requiring an added review of death sentences by the Supreme People's Court - whose judges tend to be better educated than those in the provincial high courts that currently have the last word on executions - will reduce both the overall number of people put to...
But the change in rules isn't quite as groundbreaking as Beijing's spin suggests. Prior to 1983, all death sentences in China had been reviewed by the country's highest court. This requirement is clearly stipulated in both China's Criminal Law and its Criminal Procedure Law. In 1983...