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Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Iran. On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, [a] also known as Jina Amini, [b] [1] [2] [3] died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance ...
On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah ( Arabic: محمد الدرة, romanized : Muḥammad ad-Durra) was killed in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jamal al-Durrah and his son Muhammad were filmed by ...
Idi Amin Dada Oumee ( / ˈiːdiɑːˈmiːn, ˈɪdi -/ ⓘ, UK also /- æˈmiːn /; 30 May 1928 [citation needed] – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
Marwa El-Sherbini Marwa El-Sherbini was born in 1977 in Alexandria, Egypt, to the chemists Ali El-Sherbini and Laila Shams. In 1995, she graduated from El Nasr Girls' College, where she had acted as a student speaker. El-Sherbini went on to study pharmacy at Alexandria University, obtaining a bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 2000. From 1992 to 1999, she was a member of the Egypt ...
Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar (30 October 1908 – 30 October 1963), also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician, patriarch of Thevar community. [1] He was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency. [2] The birth anniversary of Muthuramalinga Thevar on October 30 is celebrated annually by the Thevar ...
This image provided by the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, shows a new postage stamp honoring the late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis.
8 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. On June 18, 2017, Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old American girl from Reston, Virginia, was raped and murdered. [2] The killer was Darwin Martinez Torres, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was 22 at the time.
The Islamic Republic of Iran under Khomeini honoured Qutb's "martyrdom" by issuing an iconic postage stamp in 1984, and before the revolution prominent figures in the Khomeini network translated Qutb's works into Persian.) While he publicly spoke of Islamic unity and minimized differences with Sunni Muslims, he is accused by some of privately ...