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| CHINA WORSE THAN ALL OTHERS!! |
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While China carried out more executions than the rest of the world combined in 2008, executing at least 1,718 people, Iran was once again second, with at least 346, although its population is nearly 20 times smaller than China, Amnesty International said on 24 March 2009.
In its annual report on the death penalty, the London-based human rights group said that a total of 2,390 people were put to death in 25 countries in 2008, nearly double the number of executions carried out in 2007.
Furthermore, at least 8,864 people were sentenced to death in 52 countries around the world, according to Amnesty’s figures, which were drawn from governments, human rights groups, court records, and media reports.
China was responsible for 72 percent of all executions last year, the report stated, followed by Iran (at least 346), Saudi Arabia (at least 102), Pakistan (36), and the United States (37). “Together they carried out 93% of all executions worldwide,” the report stated.
“The whole situation (in China) is shrouded in secrecy and the numbers might well be much, much higher,” Irene Khan, Amnesty’s secretary-general, told Reuters.
Following Asia, the Middle East and North Africa was the region with the second highest number of executions, with at least 508.
“Amnesty International remained concerned about the application of the death penalty in Iran. Some of the cruel and inhumane methods used to execute at least 346 people in 2008 included stoning and hanging,” the report stated.
The human rights group also expressed concern about the continued execution of prisoners in Iran who were under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offense, saying the Islamic Republic put to death eight juvenile offenders in 2008, “in flagrant violation of international law.”
Belarus meanwhile is the only country in Europe and in the former Soviet Union that is still carrying out the death sentence, executing at least four people in 2008.
While the United States still carries out executions “consistently”, the country moved away from the death penalty in 2008, as the number of people put to death there last year was the lowest since 1995, said Amnesty.
Nonetheless, Amnesty International said that the world moved even closer towards abolition of the death penalty in 2008.
The human rights group noted the United Nations’ adoption last December of a second resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.
Europe and Central Asia have become “virtually a death penalty free zone”, following the abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan for all crimes, and a similar move in Argentina.
Despite the positive developments, Amnesty said that “tough challenges remain”.
The European Union on 18 March also expressed concern regarding the human rights situation in Iran, in a statement ahead of the 33rd anniversary of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the27-nation EU, criticized the Islamic Republic for persecution of human rights activists and limiting its citizens’ freedom of expression and association.
The declaration read in part: “The European Union has witnessed a worrying trend of the increasing constraints on Iranian citizens’ freedom of expression and association. Human rights defenders, journalists, students, trade unionists and others peacefully expressing their views or opinions are often charged under the vague auspices of public security.”
Meanwhile on 22 March the website of the Human Rights Activists in Iran published its annual report on the situation of human rights in Iran, in which it called the violation of human rights in Iran during the past Iranian calendar year [ending on 19 March 2009] “systematically engineered” and reported of widespread crackdown on political, civil society, social and cultural activists.
According to that report there are currently 528 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran’s prisons, who are “under constant and imposing pressure of the prison authorities” and “are facing grave existential threats”.
The report also points to the lack of attention paid by the officials to the suspicious circumstances of the death of political prisoners, and lack of psychological as well as every other form of healthcare in Iran’s prisons.”
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