The ruling reflects a compromise between international pressure for abolition and domestic support for harsh punishment to ...
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Taiwan's Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the death penalty but placed new restrictions on its application.
While the world is focused on other parts of the Middle East, the Iranian people are fighting their own battles against a ...
Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition.
Exiles and activists continue to believe that Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd arrested on September 16, 2022, for allegedly ...
The death penalty is the safest escape route from accountability as it does not burden the state with the hard work of ...
Mohammadi, who has campaigned against the compulsory wearing of the hijab and the death penalty in Iran ... were crushed and defeated in a crackdown Amnesty International said saw security ...
A coalition of women and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Front Line Defenders, the Kurdistan Human ...
TJ Riggs of Birmingham, who works with Amnesty International USA ... juries the authority to decide whether those convicted of capital murder receive the death penalty or life in prison without the ...