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Urgent Action: TWO YOUNG MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION (Saudi Arabia: 103.23)
Share: On This Page Abdullah al-Derazi and Jalal Labbad are at risk of imminent execution after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court secretly upheld their death sentences in secret, without notifying their…
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URGENT ACTION: REPEAL AHA 2023 AND ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY (UGANDA: 48.23)
On May 26, the Ugandan President assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. The Act criminalizes same-sex conduct between consenting adults and has retained the death penalty in cases of “aggravated…
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Urgent Action: EXECUTION SET DESPITE UNRELIABLE TESTIMONYÂ (USA: 93.23)
Brent Brewer is scheduled to be executed in Texas on November 9, 2023. His 1991 death sentence was overturned in 2007, but he was resentenced to death in 2009. In…
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Amnesty International Calls for Immediate and Unconditional Release of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges MohammadiÂ
Narges Mohammadi, unjustly imprisoned human rights defender, is currently serving multiple sentences amounting to a total of 11 years and 11 months in prison, in addition to other cruel, inhuman,…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER MUST BE RELEASED (Egypt: UA 87.23)
Yemeni asylum seeker, Abdul-Baqi Saeed Abdo, who has been arbitrary detained in Egypt for over 20 months, is at risk of deportation to Yemen, where his life would be at…
Press Release
Iran: One Year After Uprising, International Community Must Combat Impunity for Brutal Crackdown
The international community must pursue pathways for justice at the international level to address systemic impunity for Iranian officials responsible for hundreds of unlawful killings of protesters and widespread torture,…
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Urgent Action: EXECUTION IMINENT IN TORTURE TAINTED CASE (Vietnam: UA 79.23)
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Urgent Action: 11 BAHA’IS FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED AT GREAT RISK (Yemen: UA 60.23)
On May 25th 2023, armed Huthi forces stormed a peaceful gathering of Baha’is in Sana’a, Yemen. They detained and forcibly disappeared 17 individuals, among them five women. One individual has…
Update
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back – Updates on the Death Penalty in 2023
On 16 May, Amnesty International released its annual Death Sentences and Executions report which documents the global developments on the use of the death penalty in 2022. As the restrictions…
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Urgent Action: EXECUTION SET OF MAN WITH MENTAL DISABILITY (USA: UA 68.23)
Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man long diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on 1 August 2023 for the 2002…
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Urgent Action: 16 BAHA’IS FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED IN YEMEN (Yemen: UA 60.23)
On May 25th 2023, armed Huthi forces stormed a peaceful gathering of Baha’is in Sana’a, Yemen. They detained and forcibly disappeared 17 individuals, among them five women. One individual has…
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Urgent Action: POLITICAL ACTIVISTS UNJUSTLY DETAINED (Tunisia: UA 52.23)
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS UNJUSTLY DETAINED Since February 2023, Tunisian authorities have opened criminal investigations against at least 21 people including political opposition activists, lawyers, and businessmen on unfounded accusations of conspiracy.…