Today, Amnesty International Norway protested against United States, where one will soon reach the 1,000th execution since 1976, with 42 executions so far this year. Right, Secretary General Petter Eide in front of some of the thousand crosses. See the pictures from the demonstration at the Univeristy square in the centre of Oslo below. (30-NOV-05)
John Trana has been a campaign coordinator against the death penalty for more than ten years in Amnesty International Norway. Arne Borg was also among those in charge of the protest action. Photo: Ane Tusvik Bonde, HRH
“One thousand executions are one thousand too many”, reads the lAmnesty letter to the American Embassador. More than 80 per cent of those executed were tried in cases that involved white vistims, depite the fact that nationally only 50 per cent of murder victims are white.
Photo below: Soelvi Ramos, Silja Skoenberg and John Peder Egenes, all from Amnesty International Norway.
