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Bahrain: execution of three men is 'dark day for human rights' in the countryPress release 15 Jan 2017
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Iran: 12 prisoners face execution tomorrow for drugs offencesPress release 13 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Malaysian national faces imminent execution in Singapore
Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 22 July 2012 in Singapore. The execution could take place as early as next week.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jan 2017 -
Iran: Former child bride executed after stillbirthZeinab was 15 when she left her family to marry Hossein. Soon after the wedding, Hossein started beating her. She asked for a divorce, but he refused. She told police, but they ignored her. After an unfair trial, Zeinab was executed on 2 October 2018.
11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Veteran activist sentenced to death in China
A court in China’s Henan province has convicted and sentenced Xu Youchen to death for killing a policeman when authorities were taking him and his wife away for peaceful petitioning.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Facing firing squad for drugs crimes in IndonesiaTen people still face being shot by firing squad after their scheduled executions were postponed in July 2016. All executions in Indonesia carried out under current president Joko Widodo have been for alleged drugs offenses.
10 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Youth arrested at 15 re-sentenced to death in Iran
Salar Shadizadi was sentenced to death again in November after a retrial in Iran. He has been on death row since 2007 for a crime committed when he was 15.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested in Iran
Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Halt plans to reinstate the death penalty in The Philippines
The House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines will consider and vote on draft legislation to reintroduce the death penalty from as early as 13 December.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ten Bahraini men sentenced to death and life imprisonment
A Bahraini court of appeal upheld the death sentences against three Bahraini men, the life sentences against seven others and the revocation of the nationality of eight of them on 4 December after an unfair retrial in relation to the killing of three…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Saudi Arabia sentences 15 people to death for 'spying for Iran' - reactionPress release 06 Dec 2016
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Northern Ireland First Minister visit to China is opportunity to raise human rightsPress release 05 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action update: Belarus’ last prisoner on death row at risk
Siarhei Vostrykau is the last known prisoner on death row in Belarus after the authorities executed the other remaining three prisoners on death row on 5 November. Siarhei Vostrykau is at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Texas court blocks execution
On 2 December, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution to John Battaglia, a 61-year-old man who was scheduled to be executed in Texas on 7 December.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Belarus: three prisoners executed in sudden death row 'purge'Press release 30 Nov 2016
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Urgent Action: Man faces execution after grossly unfair trial in Saudi Arabia
A Shi’a man is at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia after he exhausted all his appeals. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Youth in Iran arrested in his teens at risk of execution
Himan Uraminejad has been warned by prison officials that he is at risk of execution as Iran’s Head of Judiciary has approved the implementation of his death sentence. He has been on death row since 2012 for a crime committed when he was 17 years old.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: In USA mental competence at issue as execution set
John Battaglia, aged 61, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 7 December. He was sentenced to death for killing his two young daughters in 2001.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Hebei man executed in China
Jia Jinglong was executed on 15 November after the China Supreme People’s Court approved his death sentence with immediate execution.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Nov 2016 -
Iranian authorities broadcast lurid 'confession' videos ahead of executions - new reportPress release 17 Nov 2016
