The most recent death penalty report on the use of the death penalty around the world is now available thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it.
Monthly death penalty report
Attached is the monthly death penalty report prepared by group member Lesley. It features Turkey, Iran, Brunei, USA and Taiwan among other countries.
Journal letter: Nazanin
The following letter from our chair was published in the Salisbury Journal
MOTHER’S Day is around the corner and many people are buying cards and flowers, planning visits and days out with their mothers, and generally making this a special day.
This Mother’s Day we’re [Amnesty International] asking readers to spare a thought for one particular mother – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who’s already spent three years in an Iranian jail after a deeply unfair trial.
For three long years Nazanin has been separated from her young daughter Gabriella, who only gets to see her mother on short prison visits in Tehran.
Recently, the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced the Government was giving Nazanin “diplomatic protection” status, meaning her case is now officially considered to be the cause of a formal dispute between our country and Iran.
This is welcome. It means the UK is taking her plight seriously and is committing itself to using all its international influence to gain her freedom. Readers can show their support for Nazanin by adding their name to our petition – amnesty.org.uk/nazanin – to the Iranian authorities calling for her release.
Andrew Hemming
Chair, Amnesty International, Salisbury branch
Death penalty report
Here is the latest death penalty report compiled by group member Lesley – thanks for your efforts on this. There is no data on China – believed to execute more of its citizens than the rest of the world together – as it is a state secret.
October/November report (Word)
Death penalty report: Sept – Oct
This is the latest monthly death penalty report compiled by group member Lesley
Don’t forget the links at the bottom of this page to various sites relevant to the abolition of the death penalty. We have just added the Death Penalty Project.
Death penalty report
The death penalty report for August – September is now available thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it.
We would also like to draw your attention to a relatively new death penalty campaigning organisation called the Death Penalty Project
Death penalty report, May – June
We attach the latest death penalty report with thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it. It features, Malaysia, Algeria, USA, Mauritania, Sudan and Belarus. Note that China is believed to execute more of its citizens than the rest of the world combined but details and statistics are a state secret.
Death penalty report
The monthly death penalty report is available thanks to group member Lesley for compiling it.
Death penalty report – January
Attached is the death penalty report for the mid December – January period prepared by group member Lesley. Some good news especially in Texas – a state with a high use of this punishment – but elsewhere in the world, a depressing number of countries in the list.
Iran: execution imminent
Youth at risk of execution tomorrow in Iran
Amnesty has just received news of a youth at risk of execution in Iran tomorrow. Full details can be accessed on the following link. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/7666/2018/en/
Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire 