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Category: Against the Death Penalty
Iran: Spare four youths from execution
24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders - persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18, and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty in such cases.
Executions for drug trafficking condemned
Amnesty International strongly condemns the execution by firing squad of two men (Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa, aged 40 and Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye, 37) in Indonesia late Thursday, 26 June 2008.
State sanctioned killing by Indonesia resumes
Amnesty International is appalled at reports that the Indonesian authorities have executed Nigerians, Samuel Iwachekwu Okeye and Hansen Anthoni Nwaoysa whose appeals for clemency were rejected by the President in 2004.
Latest round of executions in Japan condemned
Amnesty International strongly condemned the hanging of three men (Miyazaki Tsutomu, 45, Mutsuda Shinji, 45, and Yamazaki Yoshio, 73) in Japan on 17 June.
AI deplores the execution of Kurdish boy
Amnesty International unreservedly condemns the execution on 10 June 2008 of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a Kurdish boy believed to be 16 or 17 years old at the time of execution. Mohammad Hassanzadeh was hanged in Sanandaj prison following his conviction for the murder, when aged about 15, of another boy, then aged 10. A 60 year-old man, Rahim Pashabadi, also convicted of murder, was executed alongside him.
Call on Iran to end juvenile executions
The one-month reprieve of two juvenile offenders who were due to be executed on 11 June should be the first step towards putting an end to the obscene practice of juvenile executions.
Amnesty International Report 2008
Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to re-commit themselves to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
60 years of Human Rights failures
Amnesty International's Report 2008 was launched on Wednesday 28 May. The report looks back on key events in 2007 and ahead to major human rights challenges for 2008, which is the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Time to end the lethal lottery of India’s death penalty system
The first major study into India's legal judgements on death penalty cases has revealed that the system is riddled with fatal flaws and that the only remedy is to abolish the death penalty completely, said the study authors in New Delhi on 2 May.
Secret video shows horror of beheading
Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organisation strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the UN moratorium on executions around the world.
Iraq executions follow apparently unfair trials
Twenty-eight people have been executed in Iraq this week following what appear to have been hasty and unfair trials. Those executed were arrested in clashes that took place in the past three weeks.
Executions in Japan must stop
Amnesty International deeply regrets the hanging of four men -- Akinaga Kaoru, 61, Nakamoto Masayoshi, 64, Nakamura Masahuru, 61 and Sakamoto Masahito, 41 -- in Japan on Thursday 10 April.
Public executions by North Korea is another injustice
© ReutersWe condemn the North Korean authorities for executing 15 people in public for illegally crossing the border with China.
Bali 9 decision - welcome news
© AFPReports that three of the Bali 9 have had their death sentences reduced to life imprisonment is welcome news.
Court decision in Tunisia to uphold death sentence is injustice
© AIWe deplore the upholding of the death sentence against one of 30 men convicted of terrorism by the Tunis Appeal Court and the fact that serious breaches of their rights to a fair trial were not addressed, including the failure to order a retrial for all the defendants.
Death penalty won’t solve public security crisis in Guatemala
© AIIn an open letter sent on the 13 February, we urged Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom not to reinstate the death penalty and instead to look for more effective and lasting solutions to the public security crisis affecting the country.
Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death over net use
Perwiz KambakhshJournalist Perwiz Kambakhsh has been sentenced to death, after being convicted of downloading and distributing written materials examining the role of women in the Islamic faith, by the primary court in Mazar-i Sharif, northern Afghanistan.
New executions in Japan condemned
© AIWe strongly condemn the hanging of three men - 37-year-old Keishi NAGO, 63-year-old Masahiko MATSUBARA and 65-year-old Takashi MOCHIDA - in Japan on February 1.
Iran’s stoning victims are mostly women
© ReutersIranian authorities must abolish death by stoning and impose an immediate moratorium on this horrific practice, which is specifically designed to increase the suffering of its victims.
Uzbekistan 135th country to abolish death penalty
© AIThe former Soviet Union territory of Uzbekistan has eliminated the use of the death penalty - we welcome the move which is a fundamental step to ending the use of this cruel and inhumane practice worldwide.
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