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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 -
Maldives: Authorities must halt first execution in more than 60 yearsPress release 20 Jul 2017
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Malaysia: Bangladeshi human rights activist detained at airportPress release 20 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Juvenille offender's death sentence upheld in Saudi Arabia
An appeal court has upheld the death sentence against Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, a Shi’a man who was convicted of offences committed when he was 16 years old. The court appears to have based its sentence on forced “confessions”.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: In Singapore, Malaysian man hanged in hurried, secretive manner
Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national was executed at dawn on 14 July 2017 at Changi Prison, in Singapore. Contrary to international standards, he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2012 for a drug related offence.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Saudi Arabian man executed
Yussuf al-Mushaikhass was executed on 11 July without the family being informed. His death sentence was handed down following a grossly unfair trial at Saudi Arabia’s counter-terror court.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Aliaksei Mikhalenya at risk of imminent execution in Belarus
Aliaksei Mikhalenya was sentenced to death by the Homel Regional Court, in southeast Belarus, on 17 March. His sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court on 30 June and he is now at risk of imminent execution.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017 -
Japan: Two men hanged as 'cruel and inhumane' executions continuePress release 13 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Singapore sets execution of Malaysian man
The family of Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, have been informed that his execution has been scheduled in Singapore for 14 July 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: William Morva executed in Virginia
William Morva, a 35-year-old US-Hungarian national who had been diagnosed with delusional disorder, was executed in Virginia on 6 July.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Spiritual teacher at risk of death penalty again in Iran
Iranian spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri is awaiting his second hearing due to take place in July. The authorities are prosecuting him for “spreading corruption on earth”.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Nigerian at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia
Nigerian national Suliamon Olufemi remains at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. On 19 April, 11 of his co-defendants were released from prison and deported to Nigeria, having completed their 15-year sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jul 2017
