ASA 36/2012.002 AI index: ASA 36/005/2012 8 May 2012 Mr. K. Shanmugam Law Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs The Treasury 100 High Street, #08-02 ...
A Yemeni man who had been granted a stay of execution in February could now be executed as early as 5 May. His birth certificate shows that he was 15 years old ...
A proposed legal amendment that would make blasphemy a crime punishable by death in Kuwait would be a massive step backwards by the country's authorities, if passed ...
A Taiwanese man, Chiou Ho-shun, is in imminent danger of execution. He was sentenced to death in 1989 after an unfair trial. On 25 August, the Prosecutor General ...
The appeal case of 21 prominent opposition figures convicted on 22 June in Bahrain has been postponed until 11 September, when it will be heard before an ordinary ...
In parliamentary elections beginning on 28 November, Egyptians will ask whether the demands and promises of the “25 January Revolution” will finally be fulfilled ...
Three of the four men arrested on 19 July in the northern Tunisian town of Menzel Bourguiba have been released. The fourth man, Haitham el-Mejri, remains in detention ...