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Ethiopia
A young mother found guilty of adultery in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning, prompting an outcry from human rights campaigners.
Intisar Sharif Abdallah was tried without access to a lawyer and is being detained with her four-month-old baby, according to Amnesty International.
Amnesty puts Abdallah’s age at 20; Human Rights Watch says she may be under 18.
Her family is appealing against the execution and it is unclear when it will be carried out.
Abdallah admitted to the charges only after her brother reportedly beat her. The conviction was based solely rests on this testimony. The man held with her reportedly denied the charges and was released.
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Sudanese woman sentenced to stoning death over adultery claims (Guardian) Seven sentences. Doom. Fury. |
Ethnomorphic Landscapes by Lana Shuttleworth. Landscapes created by cutting, carving and then nailing down thousands of small pieces of safety cones. via
URBAN SOUND WALKS
“In 2003,” Cabinet Magazine tells us, “Berlin-based sound artist Christina Kubisch began an ongoing project called ‘Electrical Walks.’”
For this project, Kubisch has employed “specially built headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment,” transforming those signals “into sound.” In the process, “Kubisch maps a given territory, noting ‘hot spots’ (ATM machines, security systems, electronic cash registers, subway systems, etc.) where the signals are particularly strong or interesting.” In other words, she performs a kind ofaudial psychogeography, zones of the city turned into MP3s, “very beautiful, very dense sounds… like a movie, an audio movie.”
The images, represent the sound files those sounds produced, digital noise-maps of urban space.via bldgblog
Binaural mics be damned.
