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Hakamada Iwao
Hakamada is experiencing life outside of a solitary death row cell for the first time in 46 years. He was the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until Japanese courts granted him a retrial. New DNA evidence has highlighted serious flaws in his…
31 Mar 2014- Hakamada: Three days to guarantee his freedom
27 Mar 2014- Japan: Death row inmate, 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution
Press release 10 Mar 2011- UK MP says 'world's longest-serving' death row prisoner is scar on Japan's conscience
Press release 09 Mar 2010- Japan: Appeal adds to psychological torture of freed death row inmate
Press release 31 Mar 2014- Two Birmingham school pupils make new film on world's longest-serving death row prisoner
Press release 09 May 2013- Japan: British MP to raise issue of country's 'macabre' death penalty record
Press release 25 Mar 2009- Who wants to be a death row record breaker?
Blog post 19 Apr 2013- Japan: Mentally ill prisoners face execution-new report
Press release 09 Sep 2009- Japan: Release of world's longest serving death row inmate after 46 years
Press release 27 Mar 2014- Jeremy Irons leads the call for Amnesty's Write for Rights Campaign
Press release 01 Nov 2012- Japan: Denial of retrial for 87-year-old man on death row is 'travesty of justice'
Press release 17 Oct 2013- The power of a letter and five minutes that could change a life
Blog post 01 Nov 2012- Japan: Acquittal of man after more than 45 years on death row highlights ‘irreversible harm’ of death penalty
In 2023, 107 of the 115 people on death row had their death sentences finalised putting them at risk of execution
26 Sep 2024 Press release- Japan: Hanging of two men this morning 'dismal news'
Press release 29 Aug 2014- 2012 good news: Chen Guangcheng, Patrick Okoroafor and much more
Blog post 12 Jul 2012- Japan: Execution is latest ‘callous attack on the right to life’
'The execution of Takahiro Shiraishi is the latest callous attack on the right to life in Japan and a major setback for the country’s human rights record' - Chiara Sangiorgio
27 Jun 2025 Press release- Japan: 'deplorable' secret execution of death row prisoner this morning condemned
Press release 26 Jun 2014- 2014: A botched year for the death penalty
2014 was, perhaps more than any I can remember recently, a year of gruesome examples of the flaws in the death penalty system.
Blog post 24 Dec 2014- Children jailed in Syria for their father's alleged crimes
Blog post 07 Jun 2012 - Hakamada: Three days to guarantee his freedom