Further information on UA: 44/10 Index: AFR 24/012/2010 Issue Date: 24 August 2010

José Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu and Jacinto Michá Obiang were sentenced to death on 21 August and executed, apparently within one hour of the sentence being delivered. Their trial was unfair. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA: 312/09 Index: MDE 11/003/2010 Issue Date: 09 July 2010

No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

Jassim Abdulmanan, a Bangladeshi national sentenced to death in Bahrain in 2007 for murder, was executed on 8 July 2010. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 125/10 Index: MDE 30/014/2010 Issue Date: 01 July 2010

The Tunisian authorities have introduced a new provision in the Penal Code in an attempt to prevent human rights activists bringing the country’s dire human rights record to the attention of the international community. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA: 113/10 Index: AMR 51/052/2010 USA

Ronnie Lee Gardner was killed by firing squad in Utah shortly after midnight on 18 June, in the state’s first execution since 1999. He had been on death row for 25 years. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA 118/10 Index: AMR 51/050/2010 Issue date: 16 June 2010

David Lee Powell was executed in the US state of Texas on 15 June for the murder of a police officer committed in May 1978. He had been on death row for more than half of his life. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 75/10 Index: EUR 50/007/2010 Issue Date: 13 April 2010

Georgian citizen Tamaz Kardava, who was photographed on 30 March being brought on a stretcher to a hearing at his recent trial in Ukraine, died in hospital on 7 April. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 257/09 index 24/007/2010

Syria Kurd Berzani Karro, who was tortured in custody, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment for "attempting to sever part of the Syrian territory and annex it to a foreign state."
Berzani Karro was brought before a military court on 14 March, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, immediately commuted to two-and-a-half years. He intends to appeal, though such appeals are rarely successful. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 57/10 Index: MDE 12/014/2010 Issue Date: 12 March 2010

Amnesty International has just learnt that Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum was executed by hanging on 11 March. His family were not informed of his execution until they were asked to pick up the body. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 27/10 Index: AMR 51/017/2010

Martin Grossman, aged 45, was executed in the US state of Florida shortly after 6pm on 16 February for a crime committed when he was 19 years old. He was convicted of murder in 1985, and had been on death row for nearly a quarter of a century.
Martin Grossman was sentenced to death for the murder of Margaret Park, a 26-year-old woman employed as a wildlife officer by the Florida Game and Fish Commission. She was shot dead while on patrol on 13 December 1984. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 20/10 Index: ASA 13/004/2010 Issue Date: 1 February 2010

No further action is requested. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

Five men found guilty of killing Bangladesh’s first president were executed in Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of 28 January, 13 hours after the final judicial review of their sentences.
Syed Farooq-ur Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Bazlul Huda were hanged one by one soon after midnight on 28 January 2010. [ Lire la suite » ]