Further information on UA: 12/12 Index: AMR 51/010/2012 Issue Date: 7 February 2012

Christi Cheramie was sentenced at the age of 16 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She has been denied clemency by the Louisiana Board of Pardons and must wait seven years before she is permitted to submit a further application for clemency. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 190/11 Index: AFR 27/002/2012 Issue Date: 24 January 2012

Four activists have been convicted over the distribution of Coalition for Change – The Gambia (CCG) t-shirts calling for an ‘End to Dictatorship Now’ in The Gambia. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA:21/09 Index: MDE 23/028/2011 Issue Date: 24 November 2011

Muhammad bin Abd Rab al-Amir bin Ali al-Shammari (previously spelled Mohammad Abdul Amir) an Iraqi national aged 36, was arrested in 1995 and charged with the murder of a Saudi Arabian man. He was executed in the town of on Arar, near Saudi Arabia's border with Iraq, on 23 November.

He confessed to the crime after being interrogated for three months, during which he was allegedly tortured. A criminal court in Arar, sentenced him to death after a summary and secret trial. He had not been allowed any access to lawyers. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 325/11 Index: AMR 51/095/2011 Issue Date: 21 November 2011

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

On the morning of 18 November, the US state of Idaho carried out its first execution in 17 years, and only its second since 1957. Paul Rhoades, aged 54, was put to death by lethal injection after more than two decades on death row. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 226/11 Index: MDE 14/045/2011 Issue Date: 17 November 2011

Tunisian national Yosri ben Fakher Trigui was executed in Iraq on 16 November along with 10 other people. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 331/11 Index: AMR 51/093/2011 Issue Date: 16 November 2011

Reginald Brooks, a 66-year-old man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was executed in Ohio, USA on 15 November, after nearly three decades on death row. He was sentenced to death in November 1983 for killing his three sons in March 1982.

Ohio Governor John Kasich announced on 10 November that he was denying clemency to Reginald Brooks. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 261/10 Index: EUR 60/011/2011 Issue Date: 19 October 2011

On 14 October 2011, a court in the northern city of Khujand in the Soghd region, Tajikistan, found journalist, Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, guilty of the charges brought against him of libel, insult and inciting hatred. He will be appealing against the verdict. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 211/11 Index: EUR 60/012/2011 Issue Date: 19 October 2011

On 14 October, a court in northern city of Khujand in the Soghd region, Tajikistan, found BBC journalist, Urunboy Usmonov, guilty of charges brought against him, which implicate him in criminal activities related to banned religious groups.

Tajik journalist Urunboy Usmonov was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on 14 October but released immediately under an amnesty. He will be appealing against the verdict. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on 225/11 Index AMR 51/084/2011 USA 30/09/2011

Manuel Valle, a 61-year-old Cuban national, was executed on the evening of 28 September in the US state of Florida.

Manuel Valle was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida. He had been convicted of the murder of a police officer in 1978 and was 27 years old when first sent to death row. He had spent over three decades under the threat of execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 277/11 Index: ASA 17/044/2011 Issue Date: 23 September 2011

A Pakistani man, Syed Zahid Hussain Shah was executed by lethal injection on 21 September after the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing had approved his death sentence.

Syed Zahid Hussain Shah was sentenced to death in March 2010 for drug trafficking in Shanghai and his verdict was upheld in November 2010. His family travelled to China to plea for mercy to the Chinese leaders on humanitarian grounds, but their pleas were rejected. [ Lire la suite » ]