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Mar 24 2009 12:00am
Death Penalty: New figures show rise in global executions-Asian countries chiefly responsible
* 2,390 executions worldwide in 2008 - 72% per cent in China alone* Ja...
Mar 13 2009 12:00am
Iraq: 128 prisoners face imminent execution- reveals Amnesty
Authorities to execute in batches of 20 from next weekAmnesty Internat...
Mar 9 2009 12:00am
Iran: Amnesty campaign for eight Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights at risk of being stoned to death
As many as eight woman are at imminent risk of being stoned to death f...
Jan 16 2009 12:00am
Iran: New executions demonstrate need for unequivocal legal ban of stoning
Amnesty International deplores the execution by stoning of two men – H...
Dec 1 2008 12:00am
Jamaica: More executions will not reduce crime
Jamaica’s crime epidemic must be solved with reforms to the police and...
Nov 21 2008 12:00am
Iran: Child offender facing execution for killing in self-defence after being attacked with nun-chuks
Iranian child offender Reza Alinejad is at imminent risk of execution ...
Nov 11 2008 12:00am
USA: Spate of executions during election month - 'chilling reminder' of human rights failings
Seven executions set for next 10 days Amnesty International has today ...
Nov 1 2008 12:00am
Somalia: Girl stoned was a child of 13
Girl sentenced to death for being raped Contrary to earlier news re...
Oct 24 2008 12:00am
Amnesty vigil for Troy Davis outside US Embassy: Monday 27 October, 5pm
Campaigners’ last-ditch effort to save man set to die despite strong i...
Oct 21 2008 12:00am
Afghanistan: Journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh should be freed
Afghan journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh should be freed immediately a...