Texas carried out its 23rd execution of the year on 19 November 2009 – out of a national total of 48 – after Governor Rick Perry rejected a rare recommendation ...
On 16 November 2009, the Court of Cassation in Bahrain upheld the death penalty against Jassim Abdulmanan, a male Bangladeshi national. The execution is now pending ...
Dr Ramin Pourandarjani had allegedly received threats to deter him fromrevealing the extent of abuse that had taken place at Kahrizak detention centre.
The State of Ohio has announced new lethal injection procedures and is looking to resume executions. It is seeking to execute Kenneth Biros on 8 December 2009. ...
Zhao Lianhai, father of a boy rendered ill by a batch of contaminated milk powder in China in 2008, has been campaigning for justice for other affected families ...
Reports that the Iranian government plans to establish "cyber police"to fight "crimes" on the internet indicate they are intensifyingtheir attack on freedom of ...
A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for ...
The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of “enmity against God” over his alleged membership of a proscribed ...
The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of SherkoMoarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of "enmity against God" over hisalleged membership of a proscribed ...
