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Urgent Action: Clemency board in USA to hear what jury never didMarcel Williams, aged 46, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April. The jury never heard any mitigating evidence about his childhood of severe abuse and trauma.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Virginia USA execution reset as doubts persist
Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 25 April. He maintains his innocence of the 2001 murder for which he was sent to death row in 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Kiryl Kazachok at risk of imminent execution in Belarus
Kiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution date set for Malaysian brothers
Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai are scheduled to be executed on Friday, 24 February 2017. The brothers were convicted of murder in 2010 on the basis of circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sentenced to death based on 'confessions' in Iraq
Brothers Mahmoud Tale’ Nayef and Taleb Tale’ Nayef were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 9 August 2016 based on “confessions” extracted under torture. Taleb Tale’ Nayef remains at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
The execution of Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested when he was just 17 years old, has been rescheduled for 18 February. He continues to be held in solitary confinement in Lakan prison in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, further exacerbating his…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
UPDATE: Hamid Ahmadi's execution has been stayed!Hamid Ahmadi is facing execution on Saturday 18 February for a crime he was charged with as a teenager - after being tortured in to a 'confession'. Tell Iran: don't execute Hamid Ahmadi.
Blog post 09 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian academic could be sentenced to death
Iranian academic specializing in disaster medicine Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden detained in Iran since 25 April 2016, has been threatened with the death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Syria: 13,000 secretly hanged in Saydnaya military prison - shocking new reportPress release 07 Feb 2017
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Iran set to hang third juvenile offender in a monthPress release 02 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested as a juvenile, is at imminent risk of execution. He has been transferred to solitary confinement in Lakan prison in Rasht, northern Iran, in preparation for his execution on 4 February. He was 17 years old when he…
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jan 2017 -
Kuwait: today's execution of seven people condemnedPress release 25 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Non-guilty verdict for men sentenced to death in China
After more than 13 years since Huang Zhiqiang, Fang Chunping, Cheng Fagen and Cheng Lihe were originally sentenced to death, the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People’s Court has announced a not-guilty verdict.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Jan 2017 -
End Action: Execution in Virginia after clemency denied in USA
Ricky Gray was executed in Virginia on the evening of 18 January after the governor denied clemency. He was sentenced to death for the murder of two young children during a burglary in 2006 and to life imprisonment for the murder of their parents.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Six men at imminent risk of execution in Egypt
Six men submitted their final appeal to the Supreme Military Court in December 2016. The men were sentenced to death by a military court in May 2016, in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture. If the court rejects their appeal, the men…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Six men at imminent risk of execution in Egypt
Six men submitted their final appeal to the Supreme Military Court in December 2016. The men were sentenced to death by a military court in May 2016, in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture. If the court rejects their appeal, the men…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two men at imminent risk of execution in Bahrain
Mohamed Ramadhan ‘Issa ‘Ali Hussain and Hussain ‘Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed, are at imminent risk of execution following the execution of three men on 15 January. Their death sentences were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 16 November 2015. Their trial…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Fourth death sentence issued before new year in Belarus
Kiryl Kazachok was sentenced to death by the Gomel Regional Court, in southeast Belarus, on 28 December. His was the fourth death sentence to be issued in Belarus in 2016.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mental health experts support clemency in USA
Ricky Gray is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 18 January. More than 50 mental health professionals have written to the state governor in support of clemency in view of the prisoner’s childhood of severe sexual and physical abuse and its impact on…
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three men now face imminent execution in Bahrain
On 9 January the Court of Cassation in Bahrain upheld death sentences against three Bahraini men. It also upheld life sentences against seven others and the revocation of the nationality of eight of them.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017
