Three men, members of Iran’s Kurdish minority, are at risk of imminent execution. This may be in reprisal for a spate of assassinations and attempted assassinations ...
1) Worldwide Appeals: DRC: Tortured in detention; Paraguay: Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities; Iraq: Detained without trial for nine years; Nepal ...
The US administration has decided not to seek the death penalty against male Tanzanian national Ahmed Ghailani at his forthcoming federal trial. Before being transferred ...
Ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International has urged the President of Belarus,Aleksandr Lukashenka, to grant clemency to a man who ...
The Supreme Court of Belarus has rejected Vasily Yuzepchuk's appeal against the death penalty. He now has until 12 October to apply for clemency from President ...
Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah is 27 years old and is in imminent danger of execution. She was sentenced to death for murder in 2005 and the sentence was upheld in 2007. ...
The Governor of Ohio has reprieved two male prisoners who were facing execution in the next month, to give prison authorities more time to establish a “back-up” ...
Khristian Oliver, a 32-year old man, is due to be executed in Texas on 5 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for a murder committed during a burglary. While ...
Amnesty International has welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of commiting a murder while still a ...