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Ohio moves to resume executions under new protocol | Amnesty ...
20 November 2009

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USA: Choosing death again: Texas governor rejects clemency ...
20 November 2009

amnesty international. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Choosing death again: Texas governor rejects clemency recommendation. 20 November 2009. AI Index: AMR 51/118/2009 ...

Document       AMR 51/118/2009

Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved | Amnesty ...
18 November 2009

The US government must redouble efforts to resolve the future of detainees still held at the military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International said ...

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Future of Guantánamo detainees must be resolved | Amnesty ...
18 November 2009

President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba.

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USA: Ohio looking to execute under new protocol
18 November 2009

The State of Ohio has announced new lethal injection procedures and is looking to resume executions. It is seeking to execute Kenneth Biros on 8 December 2009. ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/117/2009

US must reform Afghanistan detention policy as new facility opens ...
16 November 2009

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USA: Five more Guantánamo detainees to be tried in federal court
13 November 2009

The US administration’s announcement that it will transfer five detainees from Guantánamo to the US mainland to face trial in federal court, a decision that is ...

Document       AMR 51/116/2009

USA: Further information: John Muhammad executed in Virginia
11 November 2009

John Allen Muhammad was executed in Virginia on the evening of 10 November. He had been convicted in 2003 of capital murder in relation to a series of shootings ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/115/2009

Spain: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Eighth ...
9 November 2009

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...

Report       EUR 41/013/2009

USA: Further information: Twentieth execution of the year in Texas
6 November 2009

Khristian Oliver was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 5 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Joe Collins committed during ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/114/2009