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Urgent Action: Tennessee man at imminent risk of execution
Edmund Zagorski was scheduled to be executed on 11 October in Tennessee, using a new three-drug lethal injection.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Oct 2018 -
World Day Against Death Penalty: powerful video shows horror for familiesPress release 09 Oct 2018
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Death penalty cruelty - a stain on governmentsPrisoners under sentence of death around the world are often subjected to the cruellest conditions of detention.
Blog post 09 Oct 2018 -
Iran: young Kurdish woman executed after unfair trial‘Her execution is profoundly unjust’ - Philip Luther
Press release 02 Oct 2018 -
Why Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein’s case mattersWhy Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein’s case matters
Blog post 25 Sep 2018 -
Egypt: repression now 'more extreme' than under Mubarak‘It is currently more dangerous to criticise the government in Egypt than at any time in the country’s recent history’
Press release 20 Sep 2018 -
Yemen: 24 Baha'i people, including a child, face possible death sentences‘Once again, we are seeing trumped-up charges and flagrantly unfair proceedings used to persecute Yemeni Baha’is’
Press release 18 Sep 2018 -
Egypt: 75 death sentences and heavy jail terms handed down in 'disgraceful' mass trial‘The Egyptian authorities should be ashamed’ - Najia Bounaim
Press release 08 Sep 2018 -
Iran: execution of three Kurdish men after grossly unfair trials is 'horrifying'"The trials of all three men were grossly unfair" - Philip Luther
Press release 08 Sep 2018 -
Iran: Kurdish cousins face imminent execution despite torture allegations
Their trial lasted only 20 minutes
Press release 07 Sep 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian Kurd facing imminent execution
Ramin Hossein Panahi, was moved to Raja’i Shahr prison in preparation for his execution.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Sep 2018 -
Taiwan: first execution under new presidency condemnedPress release 31 Aug 2018
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Florida: the sunshine state or the death row state?Florida's diehard pursuit of the death penalty casts a black shadow over the sunshine state. It has the second largest death row in the US and is ranked fourth in the number of executions carried out at state level since 1976.
Blog post 31 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Nebraska conducts first execution since 1997
The US state of Nebraska carried out its first execution in 21 years on 14 August, and the first by lethal injection.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Aug 2018 -
USA: new report slams Florida's 'diehard' attachment to death penaltyThere are 374 people on death row in the state
Press release 23 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action: Syrian Kurd at imminent risk of execution in Iran
Kamal Hassan Ramezan, a Syrian Kurd on death row in Iran, was removed from his cell. He has not been heard from since.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Aug 2018 -
USA: state of Nebraska set to carry out first execution in 21 years‘The US capital justice system is fundamentally broken’ - Kristina Roth
Press release 13 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Six more hanged in unprecedented execution spree in Japan
Following the executions of 7 members of Aum Shinrikyo (Aum), the remaining 6 men sentenced to death were hanged.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action Good News: Ohio governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 July, the Governor of Ohio commuted the death sentence of Raymond Tibbetts
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action: Iranian in Belarus at risk of imminent deportation
Iranian citizen Mehrdad Jamshidian, who suffers from acute ill-health, is at imminent risk of deportation to Iran.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2018
