Death penalty

May 14, 2020

USA: le Missouri va mener une exécution avec distanciation sociale

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April 23, 2020

Death penalty 2019: les chiffres les plus bas de la décennie

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February 14, 2020

Algeria: des condamnés à mort se révoltent à la prison de Lambèse

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February 5, 2020

India: prison rule stands in way of quick hanging

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NEW DELHI: A proviso in the revised 2018 Delhi Prison Manual now stands between the timely execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts on February 1 and the possibility of a further delay.

Source — Times Of India

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January 21, 2020

“Parodies of justice” in Iraq

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The Iraqi justice system has some flaws – quick trials, non-existent legal assistance and judgements based on confessions rather than the evidence. Yet several countries have declined to repatriate their citizens who are accused of terrorism, putting them at risk of torture or the death penalty. Read more

December 19, 2019

USA: les exécutions fédérales ne reprendront pas dans l’immédiat

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December 2, 2019

Nigeria: Ikoyi prison electrocution caused by overcrowded cell

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According to him, the facility had a capacity of 35 but accommodated 140 persons.

Source — Sahara Reporters

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November 20, 2019

Pakistan: 18 years in a death cell despite his innocence

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Safeer was sentenced to death. He served 18 years and has now been released on bail to await his Supreme Court appeal. Excerpts. Read more

November 19, 2019

Indonésia: dans la prison de Serge Atlaoui, condamné à mort

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October 17, 2019

Cameroon: "Some of the people sentenced to death go crazy"

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A team of lawyers met 37 inmates who were sentenced to death and are being held in various Cameroonian prisons. Excerpts. Read more

October 10, 2019

Japan: ”her present fate is to rot in solitude”

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C. Hayashi has been visiting his mother on death row for 16 years. He talks about her conditions of detention. Read more

October 10, 2019

Iran: a child of the gallows

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Homan was born in prison. Both his parents were executed. He then spent three years in prison. This is his story. Read more

October 10, 2019

Belarus: “we’re still wondering where he is buried…”

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Aliaksandra Y.’s father was sentenced to death and executed in 2016. She was not notified of the execution. This is her story. Read more

October 7, 2019

Detention conditions for inmates on death row: a lack of basic rights

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On the occasion of the 10 October 2019 World Day against the Death Penalty, the Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) organisation launched an international initiative at the Paris Bar Association concerning the prison conditions and treatment of prisoners on death rows around the world. The purpose… Read more

August 22, 2019

USA : douzième exécution depuis le début de l’année

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August 7, 2019

Pakistan: misery on death row, including for juveniles

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Pakistan’s death row population is evaluated to be around 5,000 people; one of the largest on the planet.1 Across the world, Pakistan’s death row population represents about a quarter of all individuals sentenced to death. Human rights defenders regularly voice their concerns about the failures within… Read more

July 25, 2019

USA: the world is turning against the death penalty. Trump will resume it.

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Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday that the federal government is resuming the death penalty after nearly two decades.

Source — Le Monde & Truth Out

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July 6, 2019

Mauritanie: rapport sur la peine de mort, "un bagne au pays des sables"

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June 14, 2019

Mauritanie: un rapport sur la peine de mort apporte un éclairage sur les limites de la justice dans ce pays

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June 13, 2019

Belarus: un prisonnier condamné à mort exécuté

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June 7, 2019

He was arrested at 13. Now Saudi Arabia wants to execute him

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As a boy, Qureiris participated in demonstrations like this bike ride, expressions of dissent in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province during the 2011 Arab Spring. Three years after he was filmed taking part in the bike protest, Saudi authorities arrested Qureiris, then just 13 years old. He was traveling…

Source — CNN

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May 9, 2019

Death penalty: global trends

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Reduction of 30% in the number of executions, decrease in the number of countries having recourse to the executions: human rights organisation Amnesty international publishes its 2018 report on recourse to the death penalty. Read more

April 16, 2019

Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang lance le processus pour abolir la peine de mort

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April 10, 2019

Death penalty 2018: dramatic fall in global executions

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Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the death penalty published today. The statistics assess known executions worldwide except in China, where figures thought to be in their thousands remain…

Source — Amnesty

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