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Japan: Further Information on Fear of imminent execution: MAKINO ...
27 June 2008

Makino Tadashi, who lost his final appeal on 29 May 2008, was in danger of execution in June. He remains on death row.

Urgent Action       ASA 22/005/2008

Kuwait: Death penalty: Sheikh Talal bin Nasser al-Salah (m)
26 June 2008

Sheikh Talal bin Nasser al-Salah was sentenced to death in December 2007 on drug-trafficking charges. He could be executed within a month.

Urgent Action       MDE 17/002/2008

Tunisie. Agissez pour Saber Ragoubi
23 June 2008

Newsletter       MDE 30/003/2008

Tunisia: Torture, illegal detention and unfair trials
23 June 2008

Hundreds if not thousands of young people suspected of terrorism-related offences have been arrested in Tunisia in the past five years. Many have been tortured ...

Document       MDE 30/005/2008

USA (Texas): Further information on Death penalty/Legal concern ...
18 June 2008

Charles Hood’s execution warrant expired at midnight on 17 June without the state carrying out his execution.

Urgent Action       AMR 51/064/2008

Iran: Fear of torture and ill-treatment/ Fear of death penalty
13 June 2008

Foroud Fouladvand, the leader of the group Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), which advocates the restoration of the Iranian monarchy, may be held by the Ministry ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/083/2008

Saudi Arabia: Further information on imminent execution
11 June 2008

Sheikh Mastan (alias Mohammed Salim) and Hamza Abu Bakir, both Indian nationals, remain at risk of imminent execution and are currently detained in al-Dammam Prison ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/024/2008

Bahrain: Further information on death penalty/fear of imminent ...
9 June 2008

Bangladeshi national Mizan Noor Al Rahman Ayoub Mia was executed on 4 June 2008. He was the first person to be executed in Bahrain since December 2006.

Urgent Action       MDE 11/002/2008

USA (South Carolina): Further information on death penalty: David ...
9 June 2008

David Hill was executed in South Carolina in the evening of 6 June 2008. He had been sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of three social workers in an office ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/059/2008

USA (Texas): Further information on Death penalty, Derrick Sonnier ...
4 June 2008

Derrick Sonnier received an indefinite stay of execution from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in the afternoon of 3 June, a few hours before he was due to be ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/052/2008