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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…
Event
Regular meeting of Group 463 and no Ban no Wall” demos
Group 463 meets the first Thursday of every month to plan public events ,write Urgent Action letters and take actions on our "long term case work" . In addtion we…
Event
Free film event – AI & IRC present “After Spring”
Amnesty International and International Rescue Committee present a special refugee support event featuring a free showing of an award-winning documentary film about the Syrian refugee crisis. With the Syrian conflict…
Report
No end in sight: Purged public sector workers denied a future in Turkey
The dismissal of more than 100,000 public sector workers in Turkey is arbitrary and has had a catastrophic impact on their lives and livelihoods, a new report published by Amnesty…
Press Release
Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal is Unconscionable
Responding to the news that President Trump has finalized an arms deal with Saudi Arabia during his trip to the country, Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA executive director, released the…
Press Release
Trump visit to Saudi Arabia risks giving green light to violations of human rights
The glaring absence of human rights from Trump’s agenda for his trip to Saudi Arabia will only embolden further violations in a region where governments flout the rights of their…
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
Death Penalty and Arbitrariness
Factors contributing to the arbitrariness of the death penalty: Almost all death row inmates could not afford their own attorney at trial. Court-appointed attorneys often lack the experience necessary for…
Issue
Death Penalty Cost
Recent Cost Studies A 2003 legislative audit in Kansas found that the estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty…
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Death Penalty and Mental Illness
The execution of those with mental illness or “the insane” is clearly prohibited by international law. Virtually every country in the world prohibits the execution of people with mental illness.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Bahraini Man’s Death Sentence Upheld On Appeal (Bahrain: UA 252.14)
11 May, the Bahrain High Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence imposed against Maher Abbas Ahmed. His case will now go before the Court of Cassation. Maher Abbas Ahmed…
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Death Penalty Facts
The death penalty in the U.S. is unjust, costly, discriminatory and used disproportionately against the poor and minorities.