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Urgent Action: SWEDISH-IRANIAN AT GRAVE RISK OF EXECUTION IN IRAN (Iran 38.17)
Share: On This Page Swedish-Iranian academic, Ahmadreza Djalali, arbitrarily detained in Iran for over eight years, is at grave risk of execution after exhausting all legal avenues to overturn his…
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DRC: President Tshisekedi Must Use Second Term to Tackle Human Rights Crisis
The DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi must use his second and final term in office to address the human rights crisis engulfing the country.
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Update
TJ Riggs: “It’s difficult to watch Alabama continue to kill people and to do it so mercilessly and so often”
TJ Riggs is Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator for Alabama. He talks about fighting on behalf of those on death row.
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Press Release
Global: Executions Soar to Highest Number in Almost a Decade
A total of 1,153 executions took place in 2023, which does not include the thousands believed to have been carried out in China, marking an increase of more than 30%…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: RISK OF PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTIONS AFTER UNFAIR TRIALS (Iran 103.22)
At least eight individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising of 2022, and nine others have been arbitrarily executed following grossly…
Press Release
Saudi Arabia: Repressive Draft Penal Code Shatters Illusions of Progress and Reform
Amnesty International's analysis of the leaked draft code reveals it is essentially a manifesto for repression that would entrench human rights violations and suppress freedoms.
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Press Release
Amnesty International USA Condemns Alabama’s Execution of Kenneth Smith, Calls for Moratorium on Use of the Death Penalty as First Critical Step
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and accounts of Kenneth Smith’s last moments simply show that there is no humane way to take someone’s life.
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Press Release
Amnesty International USA: Cruel Planned Execution of Kenneth Smith by State of Alabama Must Be Stopped
Amnesty International USA urges Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to use her clemency power to stop the execution of Kenneth Smith before it’s too late.
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Update
Celebrating the Human Rights Wins of 2023
Although human rights are being gravely undermined in numerous countries across the world, Amnesty International’s supporters and activists have shown that change is always possible.
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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
Urgent Action: SIX AHWAZI ARABS AT GRAVE RISK OF EXECUTION (Iran: UA 49.23)
Six men – Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s persecuted Ahwazi Arab minority face imminent execution. A Revolutionary Court…