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390763 04: A pin adorns the shirt of a demonstrator at an anti-death penalty protest on the eve of the second federal execution in nearly four decades June 18,2001 in Santa Ana, CA. Juan Garza, who was sentenced to death by a judge who believes that the death penalty is morally wrong, is scheduled to die a week after the killing of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh in Terra Haut, ID. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

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Brunei Darussalam: Sultan’s speech a first step to repealing ‘heinous’ laws

Responding to news that the Brunei authorities have announced they will continue to refrain from implementing the death sentence, including…

May 6, 2019

Sudanese demonstrators gather in a street in central Khartoum on April 11, 2019, after one of Africa's longest-serving presidents was toppled by the army. - Organisers of protests for the ouster of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir rejected his toppling by the army Thursday as a "coup conducted by the regime" and vowed to keep up their campaign. (Photo by AHMED MUSTAFA / AFP) (Photo credit should read AHMED MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Sudan: Military authorities must break with al-Bashir’s assault on human rights

Responding to the ousting of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir in a military coup following months of street protests, Amnesty International’s…

April 11, 2019

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Death penalty 2018: Dramatic fall in global executions

Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said…

April 9, 2019

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California Governor Signs Moratorium on Executions

Today the California Gov. Gavin Newsome signed an executive order placing a moratorium on executions. The order will affect over…

March 13, 2019

Head of the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC), Maurice Kamto, 64, poses in Yaounde on August 14, 2018. - Maurice Kamto will run for the next presidential elections taking place on October 7, 2018. (Photo by Reinnier KAZE / AFP) (Photo credit should read REINNIER KAZE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Opposition leader and more than a hundred supporters face the death penalty in Cameroon

Opposition leader Maurice Kamto will today be summoned by a military court on charges which carry the death penalty, as…

February 20, 2019

Nawal Benaissa, 36 yeards-old, is a mother of 4 who joined Hirak early on and became one of its main female leading voices. She took part to several protests with her husband and children and has been very active on social media. Her Facebook profile gained more than 80 000 followers, before authorities asked her to shut down during one of her detention in custody. She was arrested and held in custody for few hours four times between June and September 2017. This last time she was sued and on mid-February 2018, she was sentenced to 10 months suspended sentence and a fine of 500 hundred dirhams for inciting to commit an offence (by speech, cries or threats made in the places where public meetings, either through posters exposed to the public or by any means fulfilling the condition, advertising, including electronically, on paper and by audio-visual channel, if the provocation has not been followed by effect. Article 299 of the penal code). Her lawyer has appealed the sentence, the Court of Appeal has yet to rule. Benaissa responded to the court's decision on her Facebook page by expressing her continued support for the Rif protests. "I am proud to take part in the protests in the region and I denounce the imprisonment of Hirak activists. I demand their immediate release," she wrote. Few weeks ago, she moved from the northern city of Al Hoceima to another Moroccan city in order to flee harassment from authorities.

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Amnesty International launches world’s biggest human rights campaign

Women human rights defenders around the world are facing unprecedented levels of abuse, intimidation and violence, said Amnesty International as…

November 28, 2018

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Washington Becomes the 20th State to Abolish the Death Penalty

Reacting to news that the Washington State Supreme Court has ruled the death penalty violates its Constitution, Kristina Roth, Senior Program…

October 11, 2018

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Iran: Victim of domestic and sexual violence, arrested as a child, is executed after unfair trial

Responding to the horrific news that 24-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Zeinab Sekaanvand was executed early this morning in Urumieh central…

October 2, 2018

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Amnesty International USA Will Continue Its Fight for New Hampshire to Abolish the Death Penalty

Reacting to news that the New Hampshire state legislature has failed to override the Governor’s veto, which would have ended…

September 13, 2018

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Florida’s diehard pursuit of the death penalty is a blot on the Sunshine State

Florida’s approach to the death penalty is deepening its outlier status on this human rights issue and has now added…

August 23, 2018

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Nebraska Set to Carry Out Its First Execution in 21 Years

Amnesty International USA urges the state of Nebraska not to resume executions, ahead of plans by the state to carry…

August 13, 2018

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Ahead of Defense Department Recommendation Deadline, Amnesty International USA for Closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison

Ahead of the April 30 deadline for the Defense Department to comment on President Trump’s January order to allow the…

April 26, 2018