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February 24, 2011
February 24, 2011
Several organizations have registered a dramatic increase of executions in Iran since the start of the year 2011. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for […]
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February 11, 2011
February 11, 2011
Newly found evidence on the case of Chiang Kuo-ching suggests that the former Air Force private had been wrongfully executed 15 years ago. The case reopens […]
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January 28, 2011
January 28, 2011
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago announced its intent to pass a bill which would enable it to speed up the process of imposing and carrying […]
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January 14, 2011
January 14, 2011
The Senate and the House of Representatives of Illinois approved a bill that would bring about the abolition of the death penalty. It is now up […]
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January 12, 2011
January 12, 2011
Soon after the announcement of the commutations of the death sentences of two Salvadoran prisoners in December 2010 (read the statement by the ICDP in this regard), […]
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December 22, 2010
December 22, 2010
The International Commission against the Death Penalty welcomes the adoption of the UNGA resolution 65/206 on a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with […]
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December 17, 2010
December 17, 2010
In Yemen, Fouad Ahmad Ali Abdallah al-Shehari faces the threat of execution. He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed when he was 16 years […]
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December 15, 2010
December 15, 2010
Cuba announced the commutation of the death sentences of the two Salvadoran prisoners who were convicted of terrorism for their role in a string of bombings […]
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December 14, 2010
December 14, 2010
On the occasion of the Forth All Belarus People’s Congress on 6-7 December 2010 in Minsk, President Alexander Lukashenko announced that the issue of the death […]
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December 13, 2010
December 13, 2010
On 6 December 2010, Kyrgyzstan ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Second Optional Protocol aims at the abolition of […]
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