On the eve of Nigeria’s election to the United Nations (UN) Security Council as a non-permanent member, Amnesty International calls on the Nigerian government to ...
A 35-year old Iranian woman who had been due to be put to death on 11 October has received a stay of execution. She was convicted of murdering her 74-year-old husband ...
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has allowed the deadline for clemency for Vasily Yuzepchuk to pass. On 12 October, the UN Human Rights Committee registered Vasily ...
Iranian male juvenile Behnoud Shojaee, aged 21, was executed in Evin prison, Tehran, at dawn on 11 October 2009. He had been convicted of murder, and the family ...
Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities to rescind the death sentence imposed on Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, the first person to be sentenced to death ...
A Texas man who faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted theBible when deliberating his fate should have his death sentencecommuted, Amnesty International ...
A 35-year old Iranian woman, Akram Mahdavi, may be at imminent risk of execution for the murder of her 74-year-old husband in 2003. She could be put to death as ...
