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February 25, 2017

Boris Johnson urged to call for end to mass death sentences in Egypt

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is in Egypt this weekend for talks with the President and Foreign Minister, according to reports.The visit comes amid concerns over abuses in Egypt, including torture and the use of the death penalty in mass trials of people who were arrested in connection to protests.
December 9, 2016

Boris Johnson 'must urge Gulf to end child death sentences'

The Foreign Secretary has been urged to use a visit to the Gulf today to call for the release of juveniles and political dissidents sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
December 7, 2016

Theresa May fails to raise child executions at Gulf summit

Theresa May has apparently declined to raise the issue of the death penalty for juveniles and political protestors in Saudi Arabia, despite emphasising in a speech today that the UK is the Gulf’s “partner” in reform and of the “embedding” of international norms.
December 5, 2016

Theresa May urged to act on child death sentences at Gulf Summit

Theresa May is set to attend the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) this week, as a number of Gulf kingdoms continue to use the death penalty against children, or threaten to do so.
November 29, 2016

Eminent actors voice ‘last words’ of death-row prisoners

Actors including David Tennant, David Morrissey, Tobias Menzies and Olivia Colman have voiced a collection of ‘last words’ from prisoners facing the death penalty and other abuses around the world.
November 21, 2016

Pakistan 'failed' mentally ill death row inmate, Supreme Court told

Punjab’s top law officer has told Pakistan’s Supreme Court that the state had made failings in the case of Imdad Ali, a schizophrenic man who faces hanging. Pakistan has signed international treaties banning the execution of mentally ill prisoners.
November 14, 2016

Pakistan to review death sentence of mentally ill prisoner

Pakistan’s Supreme Court will rehear the death penalty case of a severely mentally ill man today.
November 2, 2016

Pakistan stays execution of mentally ill prisoner

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a severely mentally ill man who was due to be hanged today.
October 27, 2016

Pakistan sets execution date for ‘insane’ prisoner

Pakistan’s interior ministry yesterday handed down a so-called ‘black warrant’ confirming that it plans to hang Imdad Ali, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, next Wednesday.
October 24, 2016

Home Office drugs policy may contribute to executions overseas

Hundreds of thousands of pounds of UK funding for international counter-narcotics operations may be contributing to higher numbers of death sentences and executions abroad, the international human rights organisation Reprieve has found.