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Urgent Action: Nigerian At Risk Of Execution In Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia: UA 156.17)
Nigerian national Suliamon Olufemi remains at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. On 19 April, 11 of his co-defendants were released from prison and deported to Nigeria, having completed their…
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Urgent Action Update: Imprisoned Iranian Activist Must Be Released (Iran: UA 222.15)
Iranian human rights defender Omid Alishenas has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison in poor conditions for more than six months. He is serving a seven-year prison sentence for his…
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Urgent Action Update: Detained Rohingya Child Dies In Custody (Myanmar: UA 10.17)
The confirmed death in custody of a child detained in November 2016 in northern Rakhine State as part of “clearance operations” increases fears for the safety of hundreds of detained…
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Urgent Action: Minority Rights Journalist Attacked And Injured (Pakistan: UA 147.17)
Pakistani minority rights journalist Rana Tanweer faced an assassination attempt on 9 June. He was attacked in a hit and run accident and fractured his leg. Days before, his home…
Press Release
Pakistan: Quash conviction and death sentence for alleged blasphemy in Facebook post
Responding to an Anti-Terrorism court’s decision to convict and sentence to death a man for allegedly posting content on Facebook deemed to be ‘blasphemous,’ Amnesty International’s Pakistan campaigner, Nadia Rahman,…
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Urgent Action Update: Two Boys Jailed For Life After Unfair Trial (Somalia: UA 96.17)
Two boys have been imprisoned for life for murder. The boys say they were forced to confess to the murder.
Event
Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
For four days, death penalty abolitionists from around the country will gather at the steps of the Supreme Court to call for an end to capital punishment in the United…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Appoints Njambi Good as Deputy Executive Director of Campaigns and Membership
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) announced today that Njambi Good will join the organization to lead the organization’s campaigns and member activism.
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Urgent Action Update: Reprisal For Speaking Out Against 1988 Massacre (Iran: UA 248.16)
Prisoner of conscience Maryam Akbari Monfared has been threatened with an additional three-year prison term and exile to a remote prison. This was in reprisal for her open letters seeking…
Issue
International Death Penalty
International death penalty trends are unmistakably towards abolition. Use of the death penalty worldwide has continued to shrink, and use of the death penalty has also been increasingly curtailed in…
Issue
Lethal Injection
The search for a “humane” way of killing people should be seen for what it is — a search to make executions more palatable to those carrying out and witnessing…
Issue
The Death Penalty and Deterrence
In April 2012, The National Research Council concluded that studies claiming that the death penalty affects murder rates were “fundamentally flawed” because they did not consider the effects of noncapital…