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Urgent Action: GRAVE RISK OF EXECUTIONS IN RELATION TO PROTESTS (Iran: UA 103.22)
At least seven individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with nationwide protests, while dozens of others are at risk of being sentenced to death. The authorities…
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DEATH PENALTY 2022: Recorded Executions Skyrocket to Highest Figure in Five Years
Recorded executions in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, as the Middle East and North Africa’s most notorious executioners carried out killing sprees, Amnesty International said today as…
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Urgent Action: 14 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RELATION TO PROTESTS (Iran UA 103.22)
At least 14 individuals are at grave risk of execution in Iran in connection with the nationwide protests, including for acts not involving “intentional killing”, in violation of Iran’s obligations…
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Interfaith Action Against the Death Penalty: April 2023
From April 4-21, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is hosting an Interfaith Action Against the Death Penalty. Faith-based groups are invited to join AIUSA in advocating to abolish the federal…
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Urgent Action Update: 14 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RELATION TO PROTESTS (Iran: UA 103.22)
At least 14 individuals are at grave risk of execution in Iran in connection with the nationwide protests, including for acts not involving “intentional killing”, in violation of Iran’s obligations…
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Urgent Action: YOUTH WITH MENTAL DISABILITY RISKS EXECUTION (Iran: UA 6.23)
Mohammad Ghobadlou is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests. He has received two death sentences after grossly unfair sham trials, marred by torture-tainted “confessions” and…
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Depths of Degradation, Heights of Hypocrisy: USA’s First Execution of 2023
Paul O’Brien, Amnesty International USA A macabre ritual, incompatible with human dignity but enacted over one and a half thousand times in the USA in the past four and a…
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Urgent Action Update: 26 PEOPLE RISK EXECUTION IN RELATION TO PROTESTS (Iran: UA 103.22)
At least 26 people are at great risk of execution in connection with nationwide protests after Iranian authorities arbitrarily executed two individuals following grossly unfair sham trials in a bid…
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Urgent Action: JORDANIAN MAN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION (Saudi Arabia: UA 102.22)
Hussein Abo al-Kheir is at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia as the authorities resume executions for drug-related offences after a two year moratorium announced by the Saudi Arabian…
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Urgent Action Update: IRANIAN LGBTI DEFENDER SENTENCED TO DEATH (Iran: UA 5.22)
Iranian LGBTI rights defender Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and another woman, Elham Choubdar, were sentenced to death for “corruption on earth”. The women were targeted due to their real or perceived sexual…
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First Executions in Myanmar in Decades Mark Atrocious Escalation in State Repression
Responding to reports that Myanmar’s military authorities have carried out executions for the first time since the late 1980s, Amnesty International’s Regional Director Erwin van der Borght said:
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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…