Saturday, August 20, 2022

USA: Execution Scheduled -URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, 8-19-2022

James Coddington, aged 50, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on August 25, 2022. He was sentenced to death for the murder of a 73-year-old friend in 1997. Following a clemency hearing on August 3, 2022, the state Pardon and Parole Board recommended that Governor Stitt grant James Coddington’s request to commute his death sentence. 


Twenty-four years old at the time of the crime, James Coddington is said to have long been remorseful for his actions and to have broken the cycle of drug dependence that was the context in which the murder occurred and with which he had struggled during and after a childhood of deprivation, abuse, and exposure to drugs from an early age.   


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Saturday, August 13, 2022

IRAN: Tortured Students Jailed Unjustly - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, August 12, 2022

On 25 April 2022, a Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi to 16 years in prison on spurious national security charges after a grossly unfair trial. 


Their convictions were based on “confessions” which both men retracted in court and said were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment. 


They are prisoners of conscience targeted for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and their families’ real or perceived links to opposition group.


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Monday, August 8, 2022

SAUDI ARABIA: LEBANESE MAN DISSAPEARED IN SAUDI ARABIA - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, August 4, 2022

On August 4, 2021, Ali Maziad, a Lebanese national residing in Saudi Arabia, was abducted from his house in the capital, Riyadh by a group of men in civilian clothes. 

 

The Lebanese Embassy informed his family three months after his disappearance that he is being detained by State Security. Since then, he has been forcibly disappeared and his family has no information about his fate and whereabouts. 


Amnesty International urges the Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of Ali Maziad, release him and ensure he has access to medical treatment and legal representation.  


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