Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced ...
Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was released on 13 August after being in custody since the 25 July. He was accused of ‘distributing propaganda against ...
1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of ...
The US military prosecutor in the case against Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Jawad has asked to resign from the office of military commissions. Lieutenant Colonel ...
Richard Cooey is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 14 October 2008. He was sentenced to death on 5 December 1986 for two murders committed three months earlier ...
On 14 September 2008, a woman known only as “Zahra” had her death sentence, for the murder of her husband, sent to the Office for Implementation of Sentences in ...
On 23 September 2008, the US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Troy Davis, less than two hours before he was to be put to death in Georgia. He has been ...
