Its true Comrade Tan of the CCP did you know you PRCs execute more people than any other country? WOW! No wonder you love the PRC so much
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8240101/China-thousands-death-2019-far-country.html
China 'put thousands to death' in 2019 - far more than any other country - despite global executions falling 5% to a ten-year low, Amnesty reveals
- An Amnesty International report said China executed thousands but said the figures were 'kept secret'
- Confirmed executions around the world fell to 657, but that does not include China's suspected cases
- Iran executed at least 251 people including prisoners who were underage at the time, Amnesty said
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TIM STICKINGS FOR MAILONLINE
China executed thousands of people last year while
Iran was in second place with more than 250 death sentences, Amnesty International revealed today.
The human rights watchdog said China 'continued to execute and sentence to death thousands of people' but said the country's exact figures were 'kept secret'.
Around the world, confirmed executions fell five per cent to a 10-year low of 657, but that does not include any of the suspected thousands in China.
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Iran executed at least 251 people including four people who were under 18 when they committed the
crime, Amnesty said.
Amnesty also drew attention to Saudi Arabia, where a figure of 184 death sentences - an increase since 2018 - had already emerged in January this year.
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This map from Amnesty International shows the countries that carried out executions last year. China is believed to have carried out far more than any other country, but the figures are not made available
The 2019 statistics are published in Amnesty's Death Sentences and Executions 2019 report which was released today.
According to Amnesty's figures, 20 countries are known to have carried out executions last year.
China, which carries out executions by lethal injection, is thought to have executed people for crimes including non-violent acts and drugs offences.
'Amnesty International believes that in 2019 China once again executed and sentenced to death thousands of people, remaining the world's lead executioner,' the report says.
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'Figures on the use of the death penalty continued to be classified as a state secret, making it impossible to independently assess trends and any claims by state officials of limiting this punishment to a small number of cases.
'The death penalty remained applicable for 46 offences, including some non-violent acts which do not meet the threshold of the 'most serious crimes' to which the use of the death penalty must be restricted under international law and standards.
The majority of cases appeared to involve murder and drugs offences, according to monitoring of sources including court rulings.
Iran carried out at least 251 executions, a slight drop from 2018 after a change in drugs laws.
At least 13 public executions took place in Iran and Amnesty voiced doubts about the fairness of the trials that led to a death sentence.
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This chart shows executions in Saudi Arabia, which last year increased from 149 to 184. For the second year running, more than half of the people executed were foreign natinoals
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This chart shows the number of executions in the United States, which was 22 last year. Nearly half of America's 50 states have abolished the death penalty
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt were all accused of using 'confessions' that may have been extracted through 'torture or other ill-treatment'.
In one case, the Iranian authorities executed two 17-year-old cousins - Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat - in a prison in Shiraz on 25 April, the report said.
They were both arrested aged 15 and convicted on multiple rape charges following what Amnesty described as an 'unfair trial'.
Countries that carried out executions in 2019
Figures from Amnesty International
China: 1000s
Iran: 251
Saudi Arabia: 184
Iraq: 100+
Egypt: 32+
United States: 22
Pakistan: 14+
Somalia: 12+
South Sudan: 11+
Yemen: 7
Singapore: 4
Bahrain: 3
Japan: 3
Belarus: 2+
Bangladesh: 2
Botswana: 1
Sudan: 1
North Korea: at least 2
Syria: at least 2
Vietnam: at least 2
Executions in neighbouring Iraq nearly doubled, according to the report, from 52 to around 100.
Saudi Arabia executed 184 people, the country's highest figure in a single year and an increase from 149 the previous year.
'The use of the death penalty as a political weapon against Shi'a dissidents increased,' the report alleges.
The Gulf kingdom, the only country which carries out executions by beheading, executed 84 of its condemned prisoners for drugs offences and 55 for murder.
More than half were foreign nationals, including 35 people from Pakistan and 20 from Yemen.
On April 23 there was a mass execution of 37 people, most of them convicted on dubious terrorism charges after confessions allegedly extracted through torture.
The United States is the only Western country to use the death penalty, although 21 states have abolished it for state-level crimes.
There were 22 recorded executions in the US last year, of which nine were in Texas, three each in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, two in Florida and one each in Missouri and South Dakota.
Some 2,581 people are known to be on death row in the US, although 728 of them are in California where the governor has announced a moratorium on executions.
Belarus is the last country in Europe which carries out executions, although figures are not made publicly available. There were at least two in 2019.
Amnesty raised concerns about 'the secrecy in which executions were carried out in Belarus', meaning people were executed without warning to their families.
India followed through with four high-profile executions when the men who raped and killed a 23-year-old woman in a notorious case in 2012 were ordered to be hanged.
However, the executions did not take place until early 2020 and no death sentences were carried out in the calendar year 2019.
Elsewhere, Japan carried out three executions - down from 15 in 2018 - but Amnesty voiced fears about prisoners with mental disabilities being condemned to death.
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Iran had the highest number of executions in the Middle East last year with at least 251, of whom some are thought to have been underage at the time they committed the crime which led to their execution
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Japan carried out three executions - down from 15 in 2018 - but Amnesty voiced fears about prisoners with mental disabilities being condemned to death
The other countries who carried out executions in 2019 were Egypt, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Singapore, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Sudan, North Korea, Syria and Vietnam, the report said.
Amnesty says 106 countries have completely abolished the death penalty while another 36 do not carry out executions in practice.
There was a 'significant downward trend' in executions in Pakistan, where at least 632 people were condemned but only 14 executions were definitely carried out.
Afghanistan carried out no executions for the first time since 2010, although 14 new death sentences were imposed.
Zimbabwe is among the countries taking steps towards abolition, but there have been calls to restore it in the Philippines.
Highlighting the Saudi figures, senior Amnesty director Clare Algar said the kingdom's use of the death penalty against dissidents was an 'alarming development'.
'Also shocking was the massive jump in executions in Iraq, which nearly doubled in just one year,' she said.
'In countries from Belarus to Botswana and Iran to Japan, executions were being carried out without any advance notice to the families, lawyers or in some cases the individuals themselves.
'The death penalty is an abhorrent and inhuman punishment, and there is no credible evidence that it deters crime more than prisons terms.
'We are calling on all states to abolish the death penalty. There needs to be international pressure on the world's last remaining executioners to end this inhuman practice for good.'