Six indigenous Greenlanders have demanded compensation from the Danish government over a failed social experiment in the 1950s which saw them separated from their families and educated in Europe. Speaking on Monday, Mads Pramming, a lawyer for the Inuits, said he would file a lawsuit against the Danish government for their colonial-era experiment unless he […]
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Sierra Leone formally ends ‘inhumane’ death penalty, country’s president says move ‘exorcises the horrors of a cruel past’
The president of Sierra Leone officially abolished the country’s death penalty on Friday, three months after its parliament backed ending the ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’ practice of capital punishment. In place of the death penalty, the West African nation will punish serious offenders by sentencing them to life in prison, with a minimum term of 30 […]


