Nahid Taghavi, a German-Iranian rights activist, is welcomed back to Germany after over four years in an Iranian prison.
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Read moreZimbabwe abolishes the death penalty, protecting 60 prisoners on death row as a major step in the abolitionist movement in Africa.
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