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  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…

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  Singapore: Halt execution now

  Singapore must immediately halt the execution of Chijoke Stephen Obioha, a Nigerian national on death row for possession of…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  Pakistan: Stop execution of death row prisoner with mental disability

  Pakistan’s authorities must not execute Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a history of mental illness, Amnesty International said…

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  Mongolia: Logistical challenges should not delay abolition of death penalty and measures to combat torture

  Amnesty International expresses its disappointment that Mongolia’s new Criminal Code will not come into force until July 2017, a delay…

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  30 augustus 2016

  Vier Congolese activisten vrijgelaten

  In de Democratische Republiek Congo zijn vier activisten vrijgelaten. Onder de vrijgelatenen zijn Fred Bauma en Yves Makwambala, gewetensgevangenen.

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