The government of Saudi Arabia executes an average of more than twopeople a week - almost half are foreign nationals from poor and developingcountries.
Amnesty International has been documenting the Saudi Arabian authorities’ extensive use of the death penalty for over a quarter of a century. This report is the ...
According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK), Negin Sheikholeslami, a human rights activist from the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested at ...
Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi, who was scheduled to be executed on 9 October 2008, has had his execution postponed. Iman Hashemi was pardoned in September ...
Concerns regarding the health of possible prisoner of conscience Valeri Pal have been heightened following reports that he had a heart attack on 24 September. He ...
The Vietnamese authorities and state sponsored groups continue topersecute Catholics following September's violent crackdown on peacefulmass protests in Ha Noi.
Ozgur Karakaya, Cihan Gun and Engin Ceber were among a group of people arrested on 28 September 2008 during a demonstration and press conference in Istanbul. A ...
Ma’soumeh Ka’bi and her five children, all members of the Arab minority in Iran, were forcibly returned by the Syrian Government in breach of international law ...
Arrested for trying to organize a peaceful demonstration critical of the Libyan government, Idriss Boufayed has been released on humanitarian grounds, after being ...
As part of the sixth annual World Day against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International calls on India to take a step towards abolishing the death penalty.
