Preparations are reportedly underway to execute death row prisoners as part of the so-called National Drug Eradication Week, between 21 June and 1 July 2019.
The Maldives authorities must immediately halt its first execution planned in more than 60 years and preserve its positive death penalty record, Amnesty International said yesterday.
Britain has begun the year by abandoning its strategy on the death penalty which had been in place since 2010, as executions in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan hit record numbers.