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Nov 16 2022 7:09pm
Iran: sham capital trials being held against at least 21 people - new research
More than 15,000 reportedly arrested in protest crackdown, with the ju...
Nov 15 2022 5:30pm
Kuwait must halt imminent execution of seven prisoners
Four Kuwaiti men, Syrian man, Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman due...
Oct 28 2022 9:33am
Urgent Action Outcome: Man With Mental Disability Executed
Benjamin Cole, a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and brain d...
Sep 1 2022 2:01pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Governor Rejects Clemency, Execution Proceeds
James Coddington, aged 50, was executed in Oklahoma on 25 August 2022 ...
Jul 27 2022 3:07pm
Iran: more than 250 people executed in first six months of 2022
Mass executions in prisons are partly response to prison overcrowding ...
Jul 25 2022 7:54am
Myanmar: First executions in decades mark atrocious escalation in state repression
The four men were convicted in highly secretive and unfair trials ...
Jul 22 2022 11:54am
Singapore: Amnesty calls for an end to executions as fifth person hanged in under four months
Nazeri bin Lajim was executed in Singapore today after being handed th...
Jun 28 2022 7:02pm
Egypt: ten sentenced to death after 'flagrantly' unfair mass trial
‘Helwan Brigades’ case saw scores held at notorious al-Aqrab and Tora ...
May 24 2022 4:18pm
Saudi Arabia set to execute two Bahraini men after 'grossly unfair' trial
Jaafar Sultan and Sadeq Thamer held in solitary confinement for three-...
May 24 2022 12:00am
Global use of death penalty up by 20% - major new report
Annual survey of capital punishment shows how courts re-opening after ...