When Amnesty International was founded in 1961, only nine countries had abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Fifty years on, the trend towards worldwide ...
In this report – issued to mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Gregg v. Georgia ruling of 2 July 1976 and set against the backdrop of continuing litigation ...
Saudi Arabian national Hamza Kashgari risks being charged of apostasy, punishable by death, for remarks he posted on Twitter. He was forcibly returned to Saudi ...
Amnesty International has received information about Osama Jamal 'Abdallah Mahdi, a 32-year-old oil technician who was sentenced to death in December 2011 after ...
