Pers Saudi Arabia: Mass death sentences in ‘spy trial’ a travesty of justice The condemning of 15 people to death by the Specialized Criminal Court today after a grossly unfair trial is…
Pers Belarus: Three executions feared in as many weeks amid ‘sudden and shameful purge’ of death row As many as three of the four men on death row in the Belarusian capital Minsk have been executed…
Pers Singapore: Shameful executions violate international law Reacting to the executions of Chijioke Stephen Obioha, a Nigerian national, and Devendran Supramaniam, a Malaysian national, by the…
Report Broadcasting injustice, boasting of mass killing – A case study of the August 2016 execution of 25 Sunni men in Iran On 2 August 2016, 25 Sunni Muslim men – 22 of them from Iran’s Kurdish minority and the other…
Pers Singapore: Halt execution now Singapore must immediately halt the execution of Chijoke Stephen Obioha, a Nigerian national on death row for possession of…
Pers Japan: Man hanged as secretive executions continue Secretive executions can’t hide the fact that Japan is on the wrong side of history when it comes to…
Pers Pakistan death penalty: Imdad Ali Supreme Court order ‘reprehensible’ Following the Pakistani Supreme Court’s order dated 20 October 2016 in the case of Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner…
Pers Indonesia: Halt chemical castration and expansion of the scope of death penalty Indonesia’s authorities must immediately repeal provisions that allow sex offenders to be punished by forced chemical castration and even the…
Pers Iran: 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman faces imminent execution after grossly unfair trial The Iranian authorities must urgently halt their plans to execute Zeinab Sekaanvand, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman who was arrested when…
Report At least 20 states resort to death penalty in flawed anti-terror drive Countries are increasingly resorting to the death penalty in a flawed attempt to combat terrorism-related crimes, Amnesty International said today…
