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January 31, 2014
January 31, 2014
“Universities against Death Penalty” aims to be a global network of universities that use their voice and their symbolic power in the work against capital punishment. […]
January 23, 2014
January 23, 2014
The International Commission against the Death Penalty, condemns the execution of Mexican national Edgar Tamayo Arias (46) in Texas, United States of America (US) on 22 […]
December 20, 2013
December 20, 2013
Edgar Tamayo Arias, Mexican national, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 22 January 2014 in Texas. Edgar Tamayo, 46, was sentenced to death without […]
December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013
Two men were executed in Japan on 12 December Mitsuo Fujishima, 55, who murdered his ex-wife’s aunt and a male company employee in 1986, was hanged […]
December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013
On 12 December, Abdul Quader Mollah was executed in Bangladesh Abdul Quader Mollah, 65, was executed at Dhaka Central Jail following his conviction by Bangladesh’s International […]
November 19, 2013
November 19, 2013
Muhammad Abdul Hafeez, a 44 year-old Pakistani national, was reportedly executed in secret on Sunday 17 November 2013 in South Tangerang. He was sentenced to death […]
November 8, 2013
November 8, 2013
The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) condemns the death sentences handed down to 152 individuals following a mass trial in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 5 […]
October 2, 2013
October 2, 2013
On 24 September 2013, Guinea-Bissau’s ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death […]
September 25, 2013
September 25, 2013
On September 13 a court in New Delhi sentenced to death four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a young woman. For further information, […]
September 12, 2013
September 12, 2013
Tokuhisa Kumagai, aged 73, was hanged at Tokyo Detention Center on 12 September 2013. Tokuhisa Kumagai was initially sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder and […]