Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of humanitarian aid worker ...

Six men—Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, and ...

Twenty civil society organisations, led by global rights group Amnesty International and a coalition of anti-death penalty ...

The death penalty is a harsh punishment, but it is not harsh on crime. Amnesty International NB: It's actually impossible to test the deterrent effect of a punishment in a rigorous way ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities have opted to implement the death penalty as a response to the surge in ...

E-Ling Chiu, Amnesty International Taiwan’s director ... years of hard-fought progress towards the abolition of the death penalty. “The execution of Huang Linkai was carried out in violation ...

People all around the world face human rights violations at the hands of their own government. Often it can be for simple, ...

Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the abolition of the death penalty ... law. Amnesty said the move was not "just great progress" for Zimbabwe but also a "major milestone" in international ...

A coalition of civil society organisations has today urged the Malaysian government to take immediate action to prevent the ...

Witness to Innocence responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on the death penalty, and organizations from ...

A New Forest MP has called for the return of the death penalty following the “frustrating” sentencing of a child murderer.

A Ugandan military court has charged prominent opposition leader Kizza Besigye with treachery, a crime that carries the death penalty ... and deportations. Amnesty International has condemned ...