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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

Convictions in Abu Omar rendition case a step toward ...
5 November 2009

US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in theabduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar).

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USA: Supreme Court to consider constitutionality of life ...
5 November 2009

The United States Supreme Court will shortly hear oral arguments in the cases of two prisoners in Florida who are serving sentences of life imprisonment without ...

Document       AMR 51/113/2009

Italy: The Abu Omar case
4 November 2009

In February 2003, Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (known as Abu Omar) was on his way to a local mosque when he was abducted from a street in Milan. He was subsequently ...

Document       EUR 30/012/2009

Obama should follow UN lead on Cuba embargo | Amnesty ...
29 October 2009

In a record vote of the UN General Assembly, 187 countries said the US should end its embargo against Cuba.

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