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USA: Incommunicado detention/detention without charge/legal ...
5 August 2003

Ali-Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is the third person to be designated an "enemy combatant" by President Bush and placed in indefinite incommunicado detention in the USA ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/112/2003

Qatar: Fear of torture and ill-treatment - Zelimkhan Yandarbiev
13 May 2003

Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, a former President of the Chechen Republic, is at risk of being returned from Qatar to the Russian Federation, where he would be at risk of ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/003/2003

Qatar: Further information on Death Penalty, Firas Nassuh Salim Al ...
18 March 2003

On 24 February an appeal court in Qatar upheld the death sentence passed on Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali, a Jordanian national and journalist with the Qatari Television ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/002/2003

Death Penalty News: March 2003
1 March 2003

1.) Mass commutations in Kenya and Illinois; 2.) Commutations and releases in Kenya; 3.) Three released in Taiwan; 4.) Foreigner pardoned in Qatar; 5.) Iran quashes ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/002/2003

Qatar: Further information on Death Penalty, Firas Nassuh Salim Al ...
24 February 2003

On 24 February an appeal court in Qatar upheld the death sentence passed on Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali, a Jordanian national and journalist with the Qatari Television ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/001/2003

Qatar: Death Penalty, Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali
28 October 2002

Jordanian national Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali, a journalist with the Qatari Television network, was sentenced to death on 22 October. He was convicted and ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/001/2002

Qatar: Fear of Imminent Execution - Shaikh Hamad bin Jassem bin ...
22 May 2001

Nineteen people sentenced to life imprisonment for their part in a failed coup attempt are now facing imminent execution, after the appeal court increased their ...

Urgent Action       MDE 22/001/2001

Death penalty news: June 2000
31 May 2000

1.USA - Increasing concern over execution of the innocent; 2. UN Commission adopts death penalty resolution; 3. New UN Quinquennial report on capital punishment ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/002/2000

The death penalty: No solution to illicit drugs
2 October 1995

This report provides compelling evidence of the futility and injustice of trying to use the death penalty to suppress drug trafficking and abuse. Some 26 countries ...

Report       ACT 51/002/1995