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Nov 13 2019 12:09pm
Sri Lanka: Human rights must be 'at the heart' of the next presidency
Ahead of Sri Lanka’s presidential election this weekend, Amnesty Inter...
Nov 11 2019 12:21pm
Urgent Action: Uyghur academic faces execution in China
Fears are mounting that the Chinese authorities will carry out the exe...
Oct 10 2019 2:51pm
Ndume Olatushani: 20 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit
Ndume Olatushani spent 28 years in a Tennessee prison - 20 years on de...
Oct 10 2019 7:30am
Malaysia: Unfair trials and secret hangings - new death penalty report
Malaysia must fulfil its promise to abolish the death penalty by swift...
Aug 29 2019 11:38am
Urgent Action Outcome: Man with claims of innocence executed in Texas
Lawrence Swearingen, who has been on death row in Texas, USA since 200...
Aug 23 2019 10:12am
Urgent Action Outcome: Three men executed by firing squad in Bahrain
On 27 July 2019, Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab, Ahmed Isa Ahmed Isa al-Ma...
Aug 15 2019 3:10pm
Urgent Action good news: Supreme court suspends all execution warrants
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court, while hearing the petitions to halt exec...
Aug 15 2019 12:59pm
Urgent Action update: Iranian-swedish academic forcibly disappeared
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been subjected to enfor...
Aug 14 2019 1:00am
Egypt: Rabaa massacre still haunting country - new briefing
On sixth anniversary of the killings, Amnesty publishes list of five c...
Aug 5 2019 11:21am
Urgent Action: Man with claims of innocence at risk of execution
Larry Swearingen has been on death row in Texas, USA since 2000 and is...