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Urgent Action: Person with mental disability faces execution in Pakistan
Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. He was convicted of the murder of a religious teacher in 2002.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Six men face death sentence after unfair trial in Egypt
Egypt’s defence minister has ratified the death sentences of six civilian men tried by a military court in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Thirteen men at risk of Execution in Japan
Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are now at risk of execution in Japan, following the conclusion of the trials of other cult members.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Thirteen men at risk of execution in Japan
Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are now at risk of execution in Japan, following the conclusion of the trials of other cult members. The 13 men were found guilty of and sentenced to death for carrying out a deadly sarin gas attack in the Tokyo…
19 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Death sentence for juvenile offender in Saudi Arabia
A Saudi Arabian Shi’a man has been sentenced to death by the Specialized Criminal Court for offences that occurred when he was 16 years old. He says he was held incommunicado in solitary confinement for five months and tortured into “confessing”.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Opposition leader faces imminent execution in Bangladesh
The Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal of Mir Quasem Ali and upheld his death sentence. The only remaining avenue available to him is to seek clemency from the President.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Bangladeshi political leader executed
Mir Quasem Ali, a senior member of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami, was executed on 3 September. The Supreme Court rejected his review petition on 30 August and he did not seek clemency from the President.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Texas court blocks execution
On 19 August, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution to Jeffery Wood, who was scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 August.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Man who did not kill set for execution in United States
Jeffery Wood is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 August. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for a murder committed during a robbery of a convenience store in 1996. He was sitting in a truck outside the store when the murder took place.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Man who did not kill set for execution in United States
Jeffery Wood is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 August. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for a murder committed during a robbery of a convenience store in 1996. He was sitting in a truck outside the store when the murder took place.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian youth's execution halted, still at risk
The execution of 20-year-old Iranian youth, Alireza Tajiki, has been postponed again following renewed public pressure. Despite this, Alireza Tajiki, who was 15 years old when arrested, remains at risk of execution as the authorities have yet to quash…
Urgent action outcomes 05 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian youths execution halted, still at risk
The execution of 20-year-old Iranian youth, Alireza Tajiki, has been postponed again following renewed public pressure. Despite this, Alireza Tajiki, who was 15 years old when arrested, remains at risk of execution as the authorities have yet to quash…
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian youth's execution halted, still at risk
The execution of 20-year-old Iranian youth Alireza Tajiki has been postponed again following renewed public pressure. Despite this, Alireza Tajiki, who was 15 years old when arrested, remains at risk of execution as the authorities have yet to quash his…
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
US state of Delaware's abolition of the death penalty puts it on 'right side of history'Press release 03 Aug 2016
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Iran hangs teenage student in first child offender execution of the yearStudent Hassan Afshar is the first child offender to be executed in Iran this year
Press release 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Four executed, ten still at risk in Indonesia
Four men were executed in Indonesia on 29 July for drug-related offences. Nine other men and one woman received a last-minute temporary stay of execution after they were also taken to the execution grounds.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian man released from death row
Ehsan Shah Ghasemi, a 25-year-old Iranian man who had been on death row since October 2014, was released from prison on 13 March after he was pardoned by the victim’s family in September 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Indonesia: Execution of four people tonight 'deplorable act'Press release 28 Jul 2016
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Indonesia set to carry out 14 'unlawful' executions tonightPress release 28 Jul 2016
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Indonesia: 14 people could be executed this weekendPrisoners charged with drugs offenses face death by firing squad on 'execution island'
Press release 26 Jul 2016
