Today, along with 13 other human rights groups, we wrote to the #UN Human Rights Council to urgently establish an independent international mechanism to investigate rights violations committed during the July 2024 protests in 🇧🇩 #Bangladesh. Read our joint letter 🔗

Our new joint statement highlighting alarming #humanrights developments in #Singapore on #deathpenalty and freedom of expression-Singapore Government must end executions and stop targeting anti-death penalty activists to curb criticism amnesty.org/en/documents/a…

Report | ESOHR reveals more than 50 death row inmates in #Tabuk prison: Egyptians, Jordanians, and Syrians at risk 👉🏼 cutt.ly/DensHzYA

#Bangladesh's High Court on Thursday scrapped a Dhaka Cyber Tribunal’s verdict that jailed noted #HRD and former odhikar secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and #ASMNasiruddinElan for two years in a case related to alleged violation of now defunct Information and Communication Technology

MELBOURNE: On World Day Against the Death Penalty 2024, join Eleos Justice & Capital Punishment Justice Project for a screening of award-winning Iranian film "Ballad of a White Cow". 📅 Thursday 10 October ⏰ 17:45 📍 Monash Conference Centre, Melbourne CBD Info & tickets: eventbrite.com.au/e/film-screeni…

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October, join CPJP and Eleos Justice in #Melbourne for a screening of the Iranian film 'Ballad of a White Cow'. Tickets are very limited. 18+ only. More info & tickets: eventbrite.com.au/e/film-screeni….

Thirty one weeks ago, a group of political prisoners launched a campaign called "No to Death Penalty Tuesdays," where they go on hunger strike every Tuesday in protest of executions. Why Tuesdays? Because that is the day prisoners are typically transferred to pre-execution cells.

#Bangladesh's Chief Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus led government has formed a five members #CommissionOfInquiry to probe #EnforcedDisappearances today, 27 August 2024. The Commission is headed by former Supreme Court Judge Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury as its Chair. Former High Court Judge

SELLING FAST! Don't miss our special screening of "Ballad of a White Cow" in Melbourne, marking World Day Against the Death Penalty 2024. Book now: eventbrite.com.au/e/film-screeni… #Melbourne #DeathPenalty #HumanRights

#Iran: UN experts, incl.Mai Sato, report at least 81 executions in August, an alarming surge from 45 in July. 41 people were executed for drug offences, contravening the #ICCPR which restricts the #deathpenalty to the ‘most serious crimes’, understood as intentional killing.

“It is easy to understand why people directed their anger at Manik,” Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman of the Capital Punishment Justice Project, which has been documenting rights violations in #Bangladesh for more than 15 years, told This Week in Asia. He added that the Hasina regime had used the judiciary as

In 2023, TJC started “This Week in Court,” a weekly series that highlighted ongoing court cases in Singapore and exposed the hardships people who get entangled with the law often face. 🧵Keep reading to find out what we learnt from observing court proceedings every week in 2023:

"An intricately constructed story about innocence, guilt, redemption and forgiveness." (Cineuropa) On World Day Against the #DeathPenalty, join us & Capital Punishment Justice Project in #Melbourne for this special one-off screening of "Ballad of a White Cow". Book now: eventbrite.com.au/e/film-screeni…

Ahead of World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 Oct & as Bangladesh's interim govt commits to investigate enforced disappearances, the time is right for a moratorium on the #deathpenalty. Read this article by sairarkhan Sara Kowal & Karen Gomez-Dumpit. thediplomat.com/2024/09/is-it-…

With the interim government’s commitment to investigate enforced disappearances, another form of state-sanctioned killing in Bangladesh ought to face the same scrutiny. buff.ly/47horQV

Along with sairarkhan & Karen Gomez Dumpit, I look at the reasons why it’s time for a moratorium on #deathpenalty in #Bangladesh #NoDeathPenalty ⬇️

NEW BLOG: recapping our recent webinar, lea explores the death row experience through the lens of the right to food. #DeathPenalty #HumanRights monash.edu/law/research/e…