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Feb 6 2025 6:06pm
Iran: Kurdish humanitarian worker at risk of execution 'at any moment' - urgent action
Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Pakhshan Azi...
Jan 7 2025 3:08pm
DRC: president must halt mass execution of more than 170 people
More than 170 alleged ‘bandits’ were recently transferred from Kinshas...
Dec 23 2024 1:43pm
USA: Biden's commutation of federal death sentences welcomed
‘It is near certain that Donald Trump will re-start the federal killin...
Oct 18 2024 3:16pm
Iran: authorities set to execute child offender contrary to international law
Mohammad Reza Azizi is due to be executed in the city of Shiraz on Mon...
Oct 15 2024 4:49pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Missouri’s 100th Execution Since 1989 Resumption
Marcellus Williams, a 55-year-old Black man, was executed in Missouri ...
Oct 9 2024 4:20pm
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sharp rise in use of death penalty across region
Executions more than tripled in 2023, while death sentences increased ...
Oct 4 2024 1:26pm
Singapore: unlawful execution despite ongoing legal appeal raises fears of more to come
Responding to the news that the Singapore authorities executed a man f...
Sep 28 2024 6:30pm
Saudi Arabia: authorities have already executed 198 people in 2024
Even this grim death toll may be lower than the reality due to under-r...
Sep 26 2024 2:06pm
Japan: Acquittal of man after more than 45 years on death row highlights ‘irreversible harm’ of death penalty
Iwao Hakamada retracted ‘confession’ alleging it was made under duress...
Sep 11 2024 12:58pm
Iran: authorities still cracking down two years on from nationwide women's protests
Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on 16 September 2022 sparked the nation...