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Moshe Silman, a 57-year-old Haifa resident, set himself on fire Saturday during a Tel Aviv demonstration marking the anniversary of last summer's social protests. As thousands marched down Kaplan Street to mark a year since the start of social protests, Silman poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire. Silman was evacuated to Ichilov Hospital shortly afterward. "The state of Israel stole from me and robbed me. It left me helpless," wrote Silman in a letter he left at the scene. "Two Housing and Construction Ministry committees rejected me, even though I had a stroke," wrote Silman in the letter, adding that the facts could be checked with a public housing company in Haifa. In the letter, Silman wrote that he blames the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, "for the humiliation that weakened citizens go through every day, taking from the poor and giving to the rich."

Ziba Kazemi, also known as Zahra Kazemi , Canadian photojournalist, murdered by the Islamic Republic of Iran (July 11, 2003)

Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for persistent consumption of alcohol under the country's Islamic Sharia law