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Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death in Iran
On 27 August a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri to death for “spreading corruption on earth” for establishing the spiritual group Erfan-e Halgheh. He has been held in solitary confinement for over six years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Maldives to resume executions by September
According to statements by the Maldives President, the death penalty would be implemented 'by the end of September'. If carried out, these would be the first executions in the country in over 60 years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Governor of Missouri stays execution and orders inquiry in USAOn 22 August, the governor of Missouri issued a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams who was due to be put to death later that day. The governor will appoint a Board of Inquiry to review the case and make a recommendation on clemency.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Arkansas governor to commute death sentence in USA
On 25 August, the Governor of Arkansas announced his intent to commute the death sentence of Jason McGehee, who had been scheduled for execution on 27 April, when he received a stay from a federal judge, and the parole board recommended clemency. The…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Aug 2017 -
Florida conducts first execution in a year and a halfPress release 25 Aug 2017
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Florida execution machine kills againAlthough much of the US has turned against the death penalty and Florida governor Rick Scott promised ‘bold, positive change’, the state just conducted its first judicial killing in eighteen months.
25 Aug 2017 -
USA: Florida set to carry out first execution in year-and-a-half this weekPress release 21 Aug 2017
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Urgent Action: Belarus sentences two men to death
Ihar Hershankou and Siamion Berazhnoy were convicted and sentenced to death by the Mahiliou Regional Court, in eastern Belarus, on 21 July 2017. Theirs are the second and third death sentences imposed in Belarus in 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2017 -
Update: Alireza TajikiAlireza Tajiki was just 16 years old when he was sentenced to death. He is now 21 and about to be executed in the next few hours. Join us to demand the Iranian authorities stop his execution immediately.
09 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Syrian human rights defender executed
On 1 August, the family of Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi received the news that he was extrajudicially executed in October 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Maldives must halt plans to carry out first executions in more than 60 yearsPress release 02 Aug 2017
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Urgent: Stop the executions about to happen in the MaldivesWhile countries around world are abolishing the death penalty, the Maldives are reinstating it for the first time in 60 years.
Blog post 01 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Death sentence upheld on appeal for 15 men in Saudi Arabia
The families of 15 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death learned on 23 July that the Court of Appeal had upheld their sentences. The 15 men are accused of spying for Iran and were sentenced after a grossly unfair mass trial.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: First Ohio execution in three and a half years
Ronald Phillips was executed in Ohio on the morning of 26 July for a murder committed in 1993 when he was 19 years old. This was the first execution in Ohio since January 2014.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: 14 Saudi Arabian men could face execution
The families of 14 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death fear that they are at risk of execution after they were transferred to Riyadh on 15 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: 14 Saudi Arabian men at imminent risk of execution
Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their families learned on 23 July that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Multiple concerns as Missouri execution set
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for a 1998 murder. He maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Fourteen men at imminent risk of beheading as Saudi Arabia continues execution spreePress release 25 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action: Maldives to resume executions after over 60 years
Sources close to the government of Maldives have confirmed that executions in the country will resume on 21 July 2017. The Maldives Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentences of three men, who are all now at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Resumption of executions looms in Ohio
Ronald Phillips is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 26 July. He was sentenced to death in 1993 for a murder committed earlier that year when he was 19 years old. He is now 43. This would be the first execution in Ohio in three and a half years.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017
