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Urgent Action Victory! – Ohio Governor Commutes Death Sentence (USA: UA 123.18)
On 20 July, the Governor of Ohio commuted the death sentence of Raymond Tibbetts, who was scheduled for execution on 17 October. In so doing, the governor rejected the parole…
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Urgent Action Update: Detained Religious Teacher Faces Death Penalty (Sudan: UA 70.18)
Matar Younis Ali Hussein, a religious teacher who has a visual disability, has been formally charged with three offences under the 1991 Penal Code. Two of the offences put him…
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Urgent Action Update: Governor Vetoes Abolition of Death Penalty (USA: UA 84.18)
Share: On This Page We have received updated information regarding this case and require no further action from the Urgent Action Network. Thank you to all those who sent appeals.…
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Urgent Action: Trust Fund Boss Goes Missing From Police Custody (Lesotho: UA 113.18)
Head of the Maesaiah Thabane Trust Fund (MTTF), Makarabo Mojakhomo’s whereabouts are unknown after police claim that she escaped from custody on 31 May in Maseru, Lesotho’s capital. She was…
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Urgent Action: More At Risk As Thailand Resumes Executions (Thailand: UA 119.18)
Thai prison authorities carried out the country’s first execution in nearly a decade on 18 June 2018. Amnesty International fears that others on death row may be at imminent risk…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Texas Court Issues Stay of Execution (USA: UA100.18)
On 5 June, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution for Clifton Williams, who was due to be executed in Texas on 21 June. The stay…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Texas Court Issues Stay of Execution (USA: 100.18)
On 5 June, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution for Clifton Williams, who was due to be executed in Texas on 21 June. The stay…
Press Release
Landmark rulings expose Romanian and Lithuanian complicity in CIA secret detention program
The European Court of Human Rights has found that Romania and Lithuania violated the human rights of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah,…
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Urgent Action Update: 30 June Set as Date of Verdict for Shawkan (Egypt: UA 243.14)
The Cairo Criminal Court has set 30 June as the date for issuing the verdict in the Rabaa Dispersal case against journalist and prisoner of conscience Mahmoud Abu Zeid “Shawkan”…
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Urgent Action: Forcibly Married, Raped Girl Sentenced to Death (Sudan: UA 95.18)
Nineteen year old, Noura Hussein Hamad Daoud, was sentenced to death on 10 May for killing her husband in self-defense after he tried to rape her for a second time.…
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Iran: New evidence reveals deliberate desecration and destruction of multiple mass grave sites
New evidence including satellite imagery, photo and video analysis show that the Iranian authorities are deliberately destroying suspected or confirmed mass grave sites associated with the 1988 massacre in which thousands…
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US Citizen Detained in Iraq Must Have Fair Trial, Not Be Sent to Third Country
Rather than be sent to a third country where he may face torture, a U.S. citizen held in for seven months in Iraq as a suspected fighter for the Islamic…