Darold Stenson has received a stay of execution. He was due to be executed in Washington State on 3 December. He has spent 14 years on death row for two murders ...
Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist who was found guilty ofspying for Taiwan, was executed in China on Friday. His daughters andhis son-in-law describe how ...
The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report.
A Zimbabwean human rights activist was abducted from her home at dawnon Wednesday by a group of armed plain-clothes men who identifiedthemselves as policemen.
On 2 December 2008, the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) sentenced two senior former officials in Saddam Hussain’s government to death. ‘Ali Hassan al-Majid ...
Yang Jia was executed on 26 November 2008 after the Supreme People's Court approved his sentence on 21 November. According to news reports, his family had been ...
On 20 November 2008 the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted by a large majority a second draft resolution (A/C.3/63/L.19/Rev.1) on moratorium ...
Prisoner of conscience Htay Kywe is on trial facing politically motivated charges for his role in the peaceful protest marches against military rule in Myanmar ...
