More than 4,000 prisoners facing execution in Kenya had their sentences
commuted to life imprisonment on Monday in the largest commutation in
history, news sources reported.
Hundreds of detainees held by the US military in Iraq are being put at
risk of execution, torture or other ill treatment as they are
transferred to Iraqi custody without safeguards.
Amnesty International is aware of at least 137 people currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, of which 106 are foreign nationals. The true figures are believed to be much higher.
Since the beginning of 2009, Amnesty International has been concerned
that the South Korean government is taking steps towards resuming
executions. Sixty prisoners currently remain under sentence of death.
Amnesty International said that the Sudanese government
was responsible for the death and ill-treatment of Ahmed Suleiman Sulman, who died
from tuberculosis in police custody last week.
