UA: 57/10 Index: MDE 12/013/2010 Issue Date: 11 March 2010

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An 34–year-old Egyptian man, Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum, is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced to death for murder in July 2005, along with a woman, Jihan Mohammed Ali. Jihan Mohammed Ali was executed on 10 March 2010, and Atef Rohyum Abd El Al Rohyum could therefore be put to death at any time. Egypt's President has the power to halt the execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 21/09 Index: MDE 23/003/2010 Issue Date: 11 March 2010

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Iraqi national Mohammad Abdul Amir has been scheduled for execution on 13 March in the town of Arar, near Saudi Arabia's border with Iraq. He was found guilty of murder around 1995 after being tortured in order to force him to confess. The King has the power to halt the execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 47/10 Index: amr 46/003/2010 Issue Date: 04 March 2010

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A Chinese man, Huang Haiyong (also written as Wong Ho Wing) is facing extradition from Peru to face charges in China that can carry the death penalty. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 108/09 Index: AFR 54/006/2010 Issue Date: 25 February 2010

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On 24 February, 57 alleged members of Sudanese armed opposition group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), some of whom had been sentenced to death, were released from prison in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, as part of a ceasefire agreement. Many more of those sentenced to death by special counter-terrorism courts remain on death row. [ 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 » ]

UA: 34/10 Index: ASA 17/009/2010 Issue Date: 12 February 2010

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A Chinese man, Wang Yang, could be executed within a week if China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approves his death sentence. His case has been heard a total of nine times by different courts since he was first sentenced in 2003. China provides no clemency procedures for condemned prisoners after they have exhausted their appeals through the courts. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 28/10 Index: MDE 31/006/2010 Issue Date: 02 February 2010

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Three men have had their death sentences confirmed by Yemen’s Supreme Court in recent days. If the Court’s verdict is ratified by the President, they will be at imminent risk of execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

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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 » ]

UA 22/10 Index: MDE 17/001/2010 Issue Date: 25 January 2010

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The death sentence against a Filipina female domestic worker, Jakatia Pawa, was upheld by Kuwait’s Court of Cassation on 19 January. The sentence will now be submitted to Kuwait’s head of state, the Amir, for ratification. This often takes between two weeks and a month, after which, if the sentence is ratified, Jakatia Pawa will be in imminent danger of execution. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 108/09 Index: AFR 54/003/2010 Issue Date: 21 January 2010

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Two alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), an armed opposition group based in the Darfur region in western Sudan, have been sentenced to death for their alleged participation in an attack on Sudan's capital, Khartoum. This brings to 105 the total number of individuals sentenced to death in connection with the attack. [ Lire la suite » ]