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Human Rights Watch documented the death of a prisoner scalded in boiling water at Jaslyk prison in north-west Uzbekistan.

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A Sudanese court has sentenced RSF leader Hemetti, his brothers, and 13 others to death in absentia over genocide and the ...

“We’re asking people to challenge decades of conventional wisdom,” says Matthew Call.

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Death row inmates contest the state's execution procedures, and anti-death penalty advocates launch a public campaign urging ...