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Saudi Arabia: Repressive Draft Penal Code Shatters Illusions of Progress and ReformÂ
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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Urgent Action: SAUDI WOMAN IMPRISONED FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS TWEETS (Saudi Arabia 14.24)
Share: On This Page On November 16, 2022, Saudi authorities arrested 29-year-old Manahel al-Otaibi. She has been forcibly disappeared since November 2023. She was charged with violating the AntiCyber Crime…
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Ethiopia: End Extrajudicial Executions in Amhara Region, Bring Perpetrators to Justice
The government of Ethiopia should urgently open effective independent investigations into human rights abuses in the context of the ongoing armed conflict in Bahir Dar and throughout the Amhara region.
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Urgent Action: EXECUTION SET DESPITE FAIR TRIAL CONCERNS (USA 6.24)
Ivan Cantu, a 50-year-old Hispanic man, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on February 28, 2024. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for a double murder…
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Urgent Action: WOMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AT RISK OF EXECUTION (Yemen 8.24)
Fatma al-Arwali, a 34-year-old human rights defender, is at risk of execution after the Huthi-controlled Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Sana’a, Yemen, convicted her of ‘aiding an enemy country’ and…
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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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Amnesty International USA: Cruel Planned Execution of Kenneth Smith by State of Alabama Must Be StoppedÂ
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.Â
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Urgent Action: TWO YOUNG MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION (Saudi Arabia 103.23)
Abdullah al-Derazi and Jalal Labbad are at risk of imminent execution after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court secretly upheld their death sentences in secret, without notifying their families or lawyers. Both…
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Urgent Action: FOUR KURDISH MEN AT GRAVE RISK OF EXECUTION (Iran 19.22)
Anwar Khezri, Farhad Salimi, Kamran Sheikheh and Khosrow Basharat, all from Iran’s Kurdish Sunni minority, are at grave risk of execution in Ghezel Hesar prison, Alborz province, amid an ongoing…
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After 22 Years of Human Rights Abuses, the U.S. Government Must Close the Military Detention Camp at Guantanamo Bay
Amnesty International USA calls on the U.S. government to close the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
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Urgent Action: FACING IMMINENT PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION (Iran 64.23)
Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 popular uprising. On December 24, his family learned that Branch 39 of the Supreme Court…
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Urgent Action: MAN AT GRAVE RISK OF PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION IN IRAN (Iran 107.23)
Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 nationwide protests. On December 16, 2023, his conviction and death sentence for…