Amnesty International denounced Taiwan's execution of Huang Linkai on Thursday, calling the event a 'shameful setback' as it ...

The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, signed into law the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024) effectively removing ...

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Taiwan carried out its first execution in five years late on Thursday, upsetting both rights groups and the European Union ...

Amnesty international on Wednesday appealed to DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi to halt the executions of scores of people sentenced to death for belonging to criminal gangs.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities have opted to implement the death penalty as a response to the surge in ...

E-Ling Chiu, Amnesty International Taiwan’s director ... years of hard-fought progress towards the abolition of the death penalty. “The execution of Huang Linkai was carried out in violation ...

The former MDC activist and Tungamirai Madzore, another opposition activist, were arrested for allegedly killing a police ...

On November 16, Besigye disappeared in Nairobi, Kenya, while attending a book launch of lawyer and local opposition ...

Taiwan executed a man for a 2013 murder, marking the first execution in five years. This decision has sparked criticism from ...

The execution of an inmate on Thursday by Taiwan, marking the first death penalty carried out by the island’s authorities in five years, has sparked condemnation from rights groups.