Egypt’s highest court has recognised that Ahmed Saddouma, sentenced to death in a mass trial in 2018, was a child at the time of his alleged offences. His sentence has accordingly been commuted to 15 years imprisonment.
The World Medical Association has again appealed to the Iranian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally an Iranian-born Swedish resident specialist in emergency medicine, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been sentenced to death for the charge of “corruption on earth”.
Amnesty International has responded to the five-year jail sentence handed to Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-cheh, the manager of an NGO in Tapei, by a Chinese court on 28 November 2017.
Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, saying his two year jail sentence is utterly unjust
Three relatives of an outspoken critic of the Bahraini government who lives in exile in the UK were each sentenced to three years in prison on what Amnesty International describes as 'trumped-up' charges.
The family of a disabled man who faces execution in Saudi Arabia for allegedly attending protests have appealed for help to save his life and have given fresh details of the abuses he has suffered.
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.
Saudi Arabia has upheld a protest-related death sentence for a protester who was tortured so badly that he was rendered completely deaf in one ear. The judgment marks the first such move for several months, and comes days after President Trump visited the Kingdom.