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Urgent Action Update: FURTHER EXECUTION DATES SET (Singapore: UA 15.22)
Hangings have resumed in Singapore for drug related offenses, after Abdul Kahar bin Othman was executed on March 30, and Malaysian national Nagaenthran Dharmalingam was executed on April 29, while…
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Urgent Action: JOURNALIST PROSECUTED BY A MILITARY COURT (Tunisia: UA 62.22)
On June 11, 2022, two police officers in plainclothes arrested journalist Salah Attia. His arrest stems from a declaration he made on Al Jazeera TV the day before in which…
Report
Biden Must Take Action on Promise to End Federal Death Penalty
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Furman v. Georgia ruling, which temporarily outlawed executions in the USA, Amnesty International reminds President Biden and the federal…
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Urgent Action: ARRESTED AT 14, TORTURED, NOW FACES EXECUTION (Saudi Arabia: UA 60.22)
Abdullah al-Huwaiti, who was arrested when he was 14, is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. On June 13, 2022, the Appeals Court upheld his death sentence after…
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Urgent Action: TEXAS EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR CRIME AT 18 (USA: UA 57.22)
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to be executed in Texas on July 13, 2022. He was sentenced to death in September 2006 for a murder committed in January 2001 when he…
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President Bukele Engulfs El Salvador in a Human Rights Crisis After Three Years in Government
Under the current state of emergency, the Salvadoran authorities have committed massive human rights violations, including thousands of arbitrary detentions and violations of due process, as well as torture and…
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Urgent Action Update: RELEASE JOURNALISTS AT RISK OF EXECUTION (Yemen: UA 27.16)
On May 29, 2022, the appeal session for four Yemeni journalists sentenced to death, namely, Akram al-Walidi, Abdelkhaleq Amran, Hareth Hamid, and Tawfiq al-Mansouri, will take place before the Huthi-run…
Report
Death Penalty 2021: State-Sanctioned Killings Rise as Executions Spike in Iran and Saudi Arabia
2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death sentences as some of the world’s most prolific executioners returned to business as usual and courts were unshackled from Covid-19 restrictions,…
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Urgent Action: HALT IMMINENT EXECUTION OF TWO BAHRAINI MEN (Saudi Arabia: UA 46.22)
Jaafar Mohammad Sultan and Sadeq Majeed Thamer, two Bahraini Shi’a men, are at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. The Specialized Criminal Court sentenced them to death in October…
Report
Russian Forces Must Face Justice for War Crimes in Kyiv Oblast – New Investigation
Russian forces must face justice for a series of war crimes committed in the region northwest of Kyiv, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing following an extensive on-the-ground…
Press Release
School Bombings in Afghanistan a ‘Reprehensible Attack’ on Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Responding to the deaths of at least six people and the injury of 11 others, including children, following bomb blasts in schools in predominantly Hazara Shiite communities in Kabul today,…
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Urgent Action Update: GERMAN-IRANIAN FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED (Iran: UA 41.21)
Jamshid Sharmahd, a 66-year-old German-Iranian political dissident, is forcibly disappeared in Iran and at grave risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Since September 2021, authorities have banned all family contact…