Human rights in Pakistan: lynching for blasphemy
A man accused of blasphemy is dragged out of a police station and beaten to death. There are similar cases...
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Lynching of a student in Nigeria: Voice message as a motive for the murder
A student is lynched in Nigeria's Sokoto for allegedly insulting Islam. The arrest of her killers sparks further unrest. Lynch...
Anti-Semitism in France: Lynching of a Jewish man?
Ein a possibly anti-Semitic attack on a young man, Jérémy Cohen, in a Paris suburb moves the French in the...
Death certificate corrected 100 years after lynching
KShortly before the 100th anniversary of the death of the African American George Tompkins, who was found hanged from a...
US Congress designates lynching as a hate crime
NAfter more than a century of failed attempts, the US Congress passed legislation that lynching classified as a hate crime....
US Congress passes Emmet-Till law: Up to 30 years in prison for lynchings
Lynchings can finally be prosecuted as hate crimes. The law is named after an African-American boy who was lynched in...
