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UN reinforces call to end executions

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/good-news/un-reinforces-call-end-executions-20081120

Friday, November 21, 2008

A record number of countries have given their support to the campaign to end capital punishment. On Thursday, a large majority of states from all...

Death Penalty Nigeria: 'Forced Confessions' Condemn Hundreds

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=44371

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Amnesty International says that hundreds of those awaiting execution on Nigeria's death row did not have fair trials and may therefore be innocent.

UNICEF deplores stoning of child rape victim

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

UNICEF has described last week's stoning of a 13-year old girl in Somalia as 'deplorable.' The girl was stoned to death in a stadium of spectators in...

Child of 13 stoned to death in Somalia

Sunday, November 02, 2008

A girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13 years old, not 23, contrary to earlier news reports. She had been accused of adultery in breach of...

Poverty and the death penalty in Nigeria

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Hundreds of people on death row in Nigeria did not have a fair trial and may therefore be innocent, according to a new Amnesty International report....

Court sentences eight to death in Sudan over Omdurman rebel attack

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

In Sudan, Judge Muntasim Mohamed Saleh sentenced eight men from the rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death and found another not...

Treason Charge for Nigerian Rebel

The Point

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A leader of a Niger Delta oil militant group unseen in public since his arrest has failed to appear before a Nigerian court as expected. At a court...