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USA: Alabama carries out its third execution of the year

Keith Gavin was executed in Alabama on 18 July 2024. He was convicted in 1999 of a murder committed in...

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USA: Alabama’s third execution of 2024 imminent

Keith Gavin is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on July 18, 2024. He was convicted of a 1998 murder...

USA: Urge clemency for Indigenous activist, Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, has been imprisoned in the USA for nearly 50 years. Much of this time...

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USA: Clemency denied, Texas executes again

Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was executed in Texas on June 26, 2024. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for a...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024. Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images.

UK/USA: Fight for media freedom continues as Assange reaches plea deal with US authorities

Julian Assange’s release from a UK prison and return to Australia is welcomed news, following a plea deal with the...

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Julian Assange released from UK prison

Reacting to Julian Assange’s release from Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard,...

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USA: Environmental lawyer must be pardoned

Steven Donziger, a lawyer and environmental rights defender, successfully represented victims of oil dumping in Ecuador against Chevron. However, Chevron...

Police officers gather to remove activists during an anti death penalty protest in front of the US Supreme Court January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

USA: Clemency denied, Alabama carries out execution

On May 30, 2024, Alabama executed Jamie Mills. Convicted in 2007 for the 2004 murder of an elderly couple, Mills...

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USA: Texas execution reset

Ramiro Gonzales is set to be executed in Texas on June 26, 2024. He was sentenced to death in 2006...

USA: Call for Leonard Peltier’s parole

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, has been imprisoned in the USA for nearly 50 years. His Bureau of Prisons...

Julian Assange, editor in chief of WikiLeaks attends the Hay Festival on June 4, 2011 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

UK: ‘Positive news’ for defenders of press freedom as Assange granted permission to appeal

Reacting to the High Court’s decision to grant Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition to the United States, Simon...

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USA: Free detainees, close Guantánamo

Currently, 30 men are unlawfully held at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Despite 16 of them being...

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