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Dec 1 2020 11:59pm
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two months
Number executed more than double for whole of 2019 Arrest of Egypti...
Nov 24 2020 8:55pm
Iran: imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic must be stopped immediately
Ahmadreza Djalali has been transferred to solitary confinement in Evin...
Sep 12 2020 4:36pm
Iran: secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a 'travesty of justice'
The secret execution this morning of wrestling champion Navid Afkari, ...
Sep 11 2020 5:49pm
Iran: wrestling champion Navid Afkari feared at risk of imminent secret execution
The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabou...
Aug 27 2020 5:51pm
Saudi Arabia: review of death sentences against three young men welcomed
Controversial case of Ali al-Nimr and two other Shia activists to be r...
Jul 13 2020 2:43pm
Urgent Action outcome: Man executed for crime when he was 18 years old
Billy Wardlow was executed on 8 July 2020. He was on death row in Texa...
May 29 2020 10:35am
Urgent Action outcome: Man with claims of innocence executed in Missouri
Walter Barton was executed on 19 May 2020. He was on death row in Miss...
May 20 2020 11:32am
Singapore: Man sentenced to death via Zoom in 'cruel and inhumane' move by authorities
Supreme Court handed 37-year-old Malaysian national Punithan Genasan a...
May 19 2020 2:03pm
USA: 'cruel' execution in Missouri set to go ahead despite innocence claims
‘Compelling’ evidence over bloodstains never heard at five different t...
Mar 23 2020 4:53pm
Yemen: Huthi-run court upholds death sentence against Baha'i man
Hamid Haydara, prisoner of conscience of Baha’i faith, originally arre...