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Syria Releases Findings On March Coastal Violence - Damascus

Journalists and observers gather at a press briefing by Syria's National Committee for Investigation and Fact-Finding on the March coastal violence in Damascus, Syria, July 22, 2025. Syria's National Committee for Investigation and Fact-Finding said Tuesday it has submitted to authorities its final report on the March coastal violence, confirming 1,426 deaths while attributing violations to both "remnants" of the former government and elements of the current security forces. After four months of field investigations across 33 towns, including mass grave inspections and 938 witness testimonies, the committee identified 265 individuals suspected of major violations including murder, torture, and property destruction, committee spokesperson Yasser Farhan said here at the press conference. Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canada: Several Killed After Car Rams Into Crowd at Filipino Festival in Vancouver

Several people were killed and multiple others were injured after an SUV plowed into a crowd of revellers at a Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday, April 26. This video shows injured people being carried and treated at the scene. A 30-year-old man from Vancouver is now in custody.

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Angry Protests Over Safety Of Women - India

Mass doctors protest against the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, India, August 21, 2024. The Supreme Court on August 20 directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to ensure safety and security as per Indian media report. Photo by Indranil Aditya/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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India: Crowd Protests Against Rape And Murder Of Doctor At State-Run Hospital

Thousands of people took to the streets of Kolkata Wednesday night, August 14 to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last week and demanded justice.

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India: Crowd Protests Against Rape And Murder Of Doctor At State-Run Hospital 2

Thousands of people took to the streets of Kolkata Wednesday night, August 14 to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last week and demanded justice.

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U.S. Buffalo mass shooter sentenced to life in prison with white supremacy bashed

STORY: U.S. Buffalo mass shooter sentenced to life in prison with white supremacy bashed DATELINE: Feb. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: LAW/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the court (courtesy of WIVB News 4) 2. SOUNDBITE (English): SUSAN EAGAN, Erie County Court Judge 3. various of the scene after Buffalo shooting in May 2022 STORYLINE: The gunman who killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo of the U.S. was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday, while white supremacy was bashed at court. 19-year-old Payton Gendron committed the mass shooting in May last year. Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan announced the sentence based on 10 counts of first-degree murder and a single count of domestic terrorism motivated by hate. SOUNDBITE (English): SUSAN EAGAN, Erie County Court Judge "The ugly truth is that our nation was founded and built in part on white supremacy, starting with the treatment of Native Americans by the first European settlers, to the c

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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3-year extension sought for AUM surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - Michiaki Ozaki, director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, attends a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2011. The agency sought the same day to keep the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its splinter group under state surveillance for another three years, asserting they remain under the strong influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara and could still commit mass murder.

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Anti-death penalty campaigners criticize executions in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osamu Kishimoto, coordinator of Amnesty International Japan, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 14 in protest of the executions earlier in the day of two death-row inmates, including Mamoru Takuma, 40, who murdered eight schoolchildren in Osaka Prefecture in 2001 in a school attack. ''The whole picture of the mass murder has not been fully clarified yet. The execution passed over the murder case in silence,'' the international human rights watchdog said.

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(2)Takuma sentenced to death for school mass murder

OSAKA, Japan - Ikeda Elementary School pupils go to school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 28, shortly before Mamoru Takuma was sentenced to death for murdering eight children and injuring 13 others and two teachers in a stabbing rampage at the school in June 2001.

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People gather for tickets to trial of AUM's Hayakawa

TOKYO, Japan - People gather outside the Tokyo District Court on July 28 to get tickets for the trial of Kiyohide Hayakawa, a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member. Hayakawa was on trial over his role in two separate murder cases, including the killing of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in 1989, and for building a plant to mass-produce nerve gas.

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AUM's Hayakawa sentenced to die for killing lawyer

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, who was sentenced to die July 28 for his role in two murder cases and the construction of a factory to mass-produce nerve gas. He is the seventh person to be sentenced to death for a series of crimes involving AUM.

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House panel OK's bills to curb AUM activities

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a House of Representatives committee stand up Nov. 17 in support of two bills aimed to restrict the activities of the AUM Shinrikyo cult. While the proposed legislation does not refer to the cult by name, one of the bills allows the monitoring of activities of any organization that has committed ''indiscriminate mass-murder'' in the past 10 years.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa prays in front of Tsukui Yamayuri En, a care home for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 26, 2022, the sixth anniversary of a stabbing rampage there by a former care worker that killed 19 residents.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

A ceremony is held at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, on July 26, 2022, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Flowers are placed on July 26, 2022, at a monument at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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6th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

Flowers are placed on July 26, 2022, at a monument at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally impaired people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in a stabbing rampage by a former care worker exactly six years ago.

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Suspect of mass shooting in Chicago suburb charged with 7 counts of 1st-degree murder

STORY: Suspect of mass shooting in Chicago suburb charged with 7 counts of 1st-degree murder DATELINE: July 6, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:19 LOCATION: CHICAGO, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of community members attending a vigil honoring the victims of the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois 2. various of heart-shaped boards each with a victim's name 3. various of chalk painting 4. various of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a speech in Highland Park, Illinois STORYLINE: Robert Crimo III, the 22-year-old suspect of a mass shooting during an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. Lake County State's Attorney Eric Rinehart announced the charge at a news conference on Tuesday. If convicted, the suspect will face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. More charges against Crimo III will be issued, Rinehart said. At another news

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Ukrainian president visits site of mass murder of civilians in Bucha

STORY: Ukrainian president visits site of mass murder of civilians in Bucha DATELINE: April 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Moscow/Kiev CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukraine 2. various shots of Russian Ministry of Defense 3. Bucha footage (Courtesy: Ruptly / Ukrainian Ministry of Defence) 4. STANDUP 2 (English): MENG JING, Xinhua correspondent in Moscow STORYLINE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited the town of Bucha outside Kiev, where hundreds of murdered civilians were allegedly found after Russian forces withdrew, the Ukrinform news agency reported. However, the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday refuted Kiev's accusation of alleged killing of civilians in the settlement of Bucha in Ukraine's Kiev region. STANDUP 1 (English): SHOMODI YURII, Xinhua reporter in Lviv, Ukraine "Today is April 5, noon, and everybody in Ukraine has been talking about Bucha for the last couple of days. According to the Ukrinform news agen

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Monument for 2016 mass murder victims completed

Photo taken on March 26, 2022, shows a monument built at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally disabled people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in the July 2016 stabbing rampage by a former care worker.

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Monument for 2016 mass murder victims completed

Photo taken on March 26, 2022, shows a monument built at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for mentally disabled people in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Sagamihara, eastern Japan, in memory of the 19 residents killed in the July 2016 stabbing rampage by a former care worker.

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Stop Asian Hate Rallies - Canada

A person places flowers at a memorial outside the Lynn Valley Library for the victims of a mass stabbing incident that happened Saturday inside and around the library, in North Vancouver, BC, Canada on Sunday, March 28, 2021. A 28-year-old man was charged Sunday with second-degree murder in a stabbing rampage that left a young woman dead and injured six others around a library in North Vancouver on Saturday. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Dyck Darryl/CP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Anti-death penalty campaigners criticize executions in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osamu Kishimoto, coordinator of Amnesty International Japan, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 14 in protest of the executions earlier in the day of two death-row inmates, including Mamoru Takuma, 40, who murdered eight schoolchildren in Osaka Prefecture in 2001 in a school attack. ''The whole picture of the mass murder has not been fully clarified yet. The execution passed over the murder case in silence,'' the international human rights watchdog said. (Kyodo)

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4th anniversary of care home mass murder in Japan

People pray in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on July 26, 2020, the fourth anniversary of a stabbing rampage at a care home for the mentally disabled, in which a former care worker killed 19 facility residents and injured 26 others.

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Japan moves toward smaller care homes in wake of Sagamihara rampage

Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 9, 2017. Asano, who also was a welfare ministry official, commented on a mass murder of residents at a care facility for people with intellectual disabilities in July 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Appeal for retrial over Teigin Incident filed

Lawyers and supporters of deceased former death row inmate Sadamichi Hirasawa attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2015, after filing an appeal for a retrial in the hope of exonerating Hirasawa, accused of the 1948 Teigin Incident, one of the most mysterious mass-murder cases in postwar Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance. (Kyodo)

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance. (Kyodo)

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3-year extension sought for AUM surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - Michiaki Ozaki, director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, attends a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2011. The agency sought the same day to keep the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its splinter group under state surveillance for another three years, asserting they remain under the strong influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara and could still commit mass murder. (Kyodo)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre

The Hadamar Euthanasia Centre, known as the House of Shutters, was a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen, from 1941 to 1945. Beginning in 1939, the Nazis used this site as one of six for the T-4 Euthanasia Programme, which performed mass sterilizations and mass murder of undesirable members of German society, specifically those with physical and mental disabilities. July 14, 2020 (CTK Photo/Martin Weiser)

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Ivana Kochanska

Ivana Kochanska, advocate of Tomas Szabo, sits in a courtroom during the trial in Pezinok, Slovakia, on Monday, January 13, 2020. The trial of the four suspects in the case of the murder of reporter Jan Kuciak, which stirred mass anti-government protests in Slovakia and toppled Robert Fico (Smer-SD) as PM in the spring of 2018, started with the reading of the charges at the Special Court in Pezinok. The suspects in this case, which Slovak daily Sme described as the most closely-watched in the country's modern history and one of the largest in terms of the size of evidence, are Marian Kocner, Alena Zsuzsova, Tomas Szabo and Miroslav Marcek. If found guilty in the case, in which Kuciak's fiancee Martina Kusnirova was shot dead along with him, the suspects face up to a life sentence. (CTK Photo/Vaclav Salek)

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Julia Vestenicka

Julia Vestenicka, advocate of Alena Zsuzsova, sits in a courtroom during the trial in Pezinok, Slovakia, on Monday, January 13, 2020. The trial of the four suspects in the case of the murder of reporter Jan Kuciak, which stirred mass anti-government protests in Slovakia and toppled Robert Fico (Smer-SD) as PM in the spring of 2018, started with the reading of the charges at the Special Court in Pezinok. The suspects in this case, which Slovak daily Sme described as the most closely-watched in the country's modern history and one of the largest in terms of the size of evidence, are Marian Kocner, Alena Zsuzsova, Tomas Szabo and Miroslav Marcek. If found guilty in the case, in which Kuciak's fiancee Martina Kusnirova was shot dead along with him, the suspects face up to a life sentence. (CTK Photo/Vaclav Salek)