Muhammad Abdul Wahhab Faysal al-Qassem has been told by the General Prosecutor's office that he will be executed this coming Sunday. His age at the time of the ...
This is a summary of the Amnesty International brief which set out concerns about ways in which Canadian action or inaction risks complicity in torture or other ...
Rural leaders and farmers in a remote area of Amazonas state, northern Brazil, are facing death threats and attacks from illegal loggers and land-grabbers (grileiros ...
Seven Saudi Arabian men were publicly executed on 13 March in Abha, Saudi Arabia, despite appeals by family and international organizations to halt the executions ...
Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American man, is due to be executed in the US state of Georgia on 18 July for the 1990 murder of a fellow prisoner. He has a ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. MEDIA BRIEFING. AI index: ACT 50/005/2012. EMBARGO: Tuesday 27 March 2012, 00:01 GMT. DEATH PENALTY 2011: FACTS AND FIGURES. GLOBAL FIGURES ...
The Paraguayan indigenous community Sawhoyamaxa are unable to sustain their traditional activities, essential for their survival. While negotiations have reopened ...
Mexican human rights defender Lucila Bettina Cruz Velázquez was released on bail on 24 February. The charges against her remain and she is at risk of an unfair ...
Daniel Cook is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on 8 August. The lead prosecutor from the 1988 trial has said that he would not have sought the death penalty ...
