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Saudi Arabia: review of death sentences against three young men welcomedSaudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has ordered a review into the death sentences of three young men who were minors at the time of arrest and have been at imminent risk of execution.
Press release 27 Aug 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Man executed for crime when he was 18 years old
Billy Wardlow was executed on 8 July 2020.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jul 2020 -
UA Billy WardlowUrgent action outcomes 29 Jun 2020
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Urgent Action outcome: Man with claims of innocence executed in MissouriWalter Barton was executed on 19 May 2020. He was on death row in Missouri, USA since 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 29 May 2020 -
Singapore: Man sentenced to death via Zoom in 'cruel and inhumane' move by authoritiesPress release 20 May 2020
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USA: 'cruel' execution in Missouri set to go ahead despite innocence claimsThe US state of Missouri plans to execute a man who has proclaimed his innocence through five trials and faces execution despite claims that “compelling” evidence never heard at his trials could have exonerated him.
Press release 19 May 2020 -
Yemen: Huthi-run court upholds death sentence against Baha'i manHamid Haydara, prisoner of conscience of Baha’i faith, originally arrested in 2013 and subjected to unfair five-year trial process
Press release 23 Mar 2020 -
Belarus must not execute Viktar SerhilDespite continuing pressure, Belarusian authorities continue to carry out executions.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: 37 death sentences imposed after deeply unfair terrorism trial‘We are calling on the Egyptian authorities to retry the defendants’
Press release 02 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: Eight men executed following military trialDeath sentence handed down after attacks on Coptic Christian churches in 2017.
Press release 24 Feb 2020 -
Saudi Arabia: counter-terrorism court used to crush peaceful opposition - new report‘Our research gives the lie to the shiny new reformist image Saudi Arabia is trying to cultivate’
Press release 05 Feb 2020 -
India: Four men at risk of imminent executionAmnesty is calling for the death sentences of four convicted men to be commuted.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Feb 2020 -
Seventh update: Death sentences upheld on appealThe death penalty has been upheld in the case of two men who gave confessions under torture.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jan 2020 -
Nigeria: Human rights defenders must be releasedNigerian authorities continue to detain human rights defenders facing trumped-up treason charges.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jan 2020 -
Saudi Arabia: why Amnesty will not attend 'sham' C20 meetingsAbysmal human rights record despite attempted sportswashing
Press release 13 Jan 2020 -
Bahrain: death sentences against two men upheld despite torture evidenceGovernment doctors have themselves described how the two men were tortured
Press release 08 Jan 2020 -
Japan: Execution a shameful stain on human rights record of Olympic hostsWei Wei, a 40-year-old Chinese national, was executed in Japan on Thursday morning
Press release 26 Dec 2019 -
Sixth update: Expected verdict on death penalty caseA Bahrani court is set to deliver it's verdict on the death penalty cases of two men tortured into giving confessions.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Dec 2019 -
Man at risk of imminent executionBelarusian man at risk of execution, following a trial which human rights defenders say violated his right to fair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Dec 2019 -
Execution halted for Rodney ReedA Texas court has halted the scheduled execution of Rodney Reed, and ordered that new evidence be considered in his case. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles supported delaying the execution and recommended that Governor Greg Abbott grant a 120-day…
25 Nov 2019
