AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 20 August 2010. AI Index: AMR 19/010/2010. The Brazilian High Court of Justice faces historic decision on human rights. ...
Teresa Lewis, a woman assessed as having "borderline mental retardation", is scheduled for execution in Virginia, USA, on 23 September as the “mastermind” of the ...
Holly Wood, a 50-year-old African American man who has significant mental impairments, is due to be executed in Alabama on 9 September. Four federal judges on three ...
Jeffrey Matthews received a 60-day stay of execution from a federal judge on 17 August, a few hours before he was due to be put to death. This was his third stay ...
On 12 August the military commission trial of Omar Khadr was postponed for at least 30 days after his military lawyer collapsed in court. Amnesty International ...
Migrants staying at a shelter in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo, Coahuila state, are at imminent risk of being abducted by people-traffickers. In addition ...
On 7 August, violence and threats in the remote northern Argentinian town of La Leonesa stopped community activists hearing a talk by a renowned scientist about ...
The mother of a Cuban prisoner of conscience who died after hunger striking has been repeatedly harassed and intimidated in an attempt to stop her from organizing ...
There have been two presidential elections in the USA since Omar Khadr was taken into US military custody as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar Khadr's ...