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Category: Against the Death Penalty

  • All countries: Ban the death penalty now

    Today, on World Day Against the Death Penalty, Amnesty International calls on all countries in our region that have not yet embraced the moratorium on the death penalty to do so immediately. We urge India, South Korea and Taiwan to join the global trend.

  • New evidence of unfair trials in Iraq

    The recent disclosure that one of former President Sadaam Hussain's trial judges was replaced shortly before the court delivered its verdict and death sentence has raised further questions about the fairness of that trial and others in Iraq.

  • Consistency a must in opposing the death penalty

    Recent comments by the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General have again plunged Australia’s position on the death penalty into ambiguity.

  • Stay of execution for Troy Davis

    Amnesty International has welcomed the order from the Supreme Court of the United States to stay the execution of Troy Anthony Davis hours before his scheduled execution.

  • Executions in Japan

    The new Japanese Minister of Justice should immediately re-examine the country's death penalty policy following the hanging of Mantani Yoshiyuki (68), Yamamoto Mineteru (68) and Hirano Isamu (61) in Japan today on 11 September, said Amnesty International.

  • Argentina commits to ending capital punishment

    Two recent ratifications by Argentina unequivocally support its recent abolition of the death penalty.

  • New Pakistani President must improve human rights

    Amnesty International calls on newly-elected Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to work to reverse the country's poor human rights record.

  • Call to account for 1988 “prison massacre”

    On 29 August 1988, Iranian authorities began a wave of mass executions that left between 4,500 and 5,000 people dead. Twenty years later, Amnesty International renews its calls for justice for the victims of the "prison massacre" and their families.

  • Execution of juvenile offender condemned

    Amnesty International unreservedly condemns the execution on 19 July 2008, at 11am of Reza Hejazi, for a crime he committed when he was below 18 years old.

  • Liberian president must repeal death penalty law

    Amnesty International condemned the signing by Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of a law calling for the death penalty for anyone convicted of armed robbery, terrorism or hijacking offences if these crimes result in death.

  • President of Liberia must veto death penalty bill

    Following the confirmation by the Liberian Senate of a bill re-proposing the death penalty for certain crimes, Amnesty International called on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to veto the bill.

  • Imminent executions in Indonesia

    Amnesty International believes Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudera, who were convicted of involvement in the 12 October 2002 bombings on the island of Bali, which killed 202people and injured a further 209, are facing imminent execution by firing squad.

  • Official moratorium on the death penalty

    Amnesty International and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) urge the Lao government to introduce an official moratorium on executions.

  • Latest execution in Indonesia condemned

    Amnesty International strongly condemns the execution by firing squad of Achmad Suradji in Indonesia at 9.58pm on Thursday 10 July 2008.

  • Iran: Spare four youths from execution

    24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders - persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18, and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty in such cases.

  • Executions for drug trafficking condemned

    Amnesty International strongly condemns the execution by firing squad of two men (Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa, aged 40 and Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye, 37) in Indonesia late Thursday, 26 June 2008.

  • State sanctioned killing by Indonesia resumes

    Amnesty International is appalled at reports that the Indonesian authorities have executed Nigerians, Samuel Iwachekwu Okeye and Hansen Anthoni Nwaoysa whose appeals for clemency were rejected by the President in 2004.

  • Latest round of executions in Japan condemned

    Amnesty International strongly condemned the hanging of three men (Miyazaki Tsutomu, 45, Mutsuda Shinji, 45, and Yamazaki Yoshio, 73) in Japan on 17 June.

  • AI deplores the execution of Kurdish boy

    Amnesty International unreservedly condemns the execution on 10 June 2008 of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a Kurdish boy believed to be 16 or 17 years old at the time of execution. Mohammad Hassanzadeh was hanged in Sanandaj prison following his conviction for the murder, when aged about 15, of another boy, then aged 10. A 60 year-old man, Rahim Pashabadi, also convicted of murder, was executed alongside him.

  • Call on Iran to end juvenile executions

    The one-month reprieve of two juvenile offenders who were due to be executed on 11 June should be the first step towards putting an end to the obscene practice of juvenile executions.

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