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Juveniles and the death penalty: executions worldwide since 1985
29 August 1995

Since 1985, eight countries have executed juvenile offenders - those sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under 18 - even though international ...

Report       ACT 50/005/1995

United Arab Emirates: Fear of torture / fear of refoulement ...
10 March 1995

The two men named above are reported to be in incommunicado detention in the State Security Headquarters in Abu Dhabi. They were arrested in mid-January following ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/001/1995

UA 41/94 - United Arab Emirates: death penalty: Pakistani national ...
9 February 1994

A Pakistani national has been sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates and is at imminent risk of execution. According to press reports, he was sentenced ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/002/1994

UA 13/94 - United Arab Emirates: death penalty: Mashal Badr al ...
14 January 1994

A death sentence passed by a court in Abu Dhabi in 1991 upon Mashal Badr al-Hamati, a young Yemeni national convicted of murder, has been upheld by the Supreme ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/001/1994

EXTRA 103/93 - United Arab Emirates: executions: six men (names ...
25 November 1993

AI is concerned about reports that six men were executed in the United Arab Emirates on 24 November 1993. No names were published but reports stated that the men ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/003/1993

EXTRA 37/93 - United Arab Emirates: death penalty: two men (names ...
15 April 1993

Two men sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates are at imminent risk of execution. According to press reports the two men, described only as Arab nationals ...

Urgent Action       MDE 25/002/1993

United Arab Emirates: Limited medical action: Amputations
24 March 1993

According to a Reuters press report, two men convicted of piracy by a court in the United Arab Emirates were sentenced on 11 March 1993 to punitive amputation of ...

Action Document       MDE 25/001/1993

Death Penalty News: December 1992
1 December 1992

1. Pakistan: Nineteen executions since April 1992; 2. AI urges Peru not to extend the death penalty; 3. Libya: Resumption of executions; 4. Bangladesh: Extension ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/005/1992