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WORLD TREND DOWN BUT SECRECY SURROUNDS CHINA EXECUTION FIGURES

April 14, 2008: Amnesty International called for secrecy surrounding the death penalty to be lifted as it published new figures showing that over 1,250 people were executed in 2007.
Up to 27,500 people are now estimated to be on death row across the world. Execution figures show a drop from 2007 (down from 1,591), but death penalty information is veiled in secrecy in several countries, notably in China. China still executed more than any other country (at least 470), but the real execution figure is likely to be several thousand.
There were large rises in executions in Iran (at least 317 people, up from 177), Saudi Arabia (at least 143, up from 39), and Pakistan (at least 135, up from 82). Just five countries - China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the USA - carried out the overwhelming majority (88%) of known executions in the world.
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said 'yet again China has executed more people than any country in the world and even now, in Olympics year, China is secretly executing people after unfair trials and alleged torture.
According to reliable estimates, on average China secretly executes around 22 prisoners every day - that's 374 people during the Olympic Games.’ Amnesty is also concerned that the extremely wide scope of the death penalty in China is becoming even wider.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International's death penalty review welcomed the wider trend toward global abolition. Two-thirds of the world's countries (135) have now either officially abolished capital punishment or have refrained from using it for at least 10 years.
Last year three more countries (Albania, Rwanda and the Cook Islands) abolished the death penalty. (Sources: Amnesty.org.uk, 14/04/2008)

DEATH PENALTY. D'ELIA, LETHAL INJECTION ISN’T THE PROBLEM BUT THE ANACHRONISM OF THE DEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN SIGNS THREE UN HR CONVENTIONS
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES JORDANIAN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
BELARUS. LAWMAKER: DEATH PENALTY CANNOT BE SCRAPPED ‘IN ONE GO’
USA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS USE OF LETHAL INJECTIONS
AFGHANISTAN. CONDEMNED JOURNALIST WINS RIGHT TO APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE
AFGHANISTAN. SUPREME COURT ISSUES 100 DEATH SENTENCES
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN. THREE HANGED IN ISFAHAN
GHANA. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
CHINA DEFENDS USE OF DEATH PENALTY
IRAN SAYS NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS IS 'NOT HIGH'
AMNESTY CALLS FOR ACTION AS CHINA EXECUTES 8,000 PEOPLE A YEAR
IRAN. FOUR HANGED FOR TERRORISM, MURDER
SAUDI ARABIA. FOUR BEHEADED FOR MURDER, DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAQ. 28 CRIMINALS AND MILITANTS EXECUTED IN BASRA
CHINA. CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR DEATH SENTENCES TO BE IMPOSED
INDIA. 19YO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
ETHIOPIA: "THE DEATH SENTENCE WAS USED AS A TOOL OF INTIMIDATION"
EP: BEIJING-TALK WITH DALAI LAMA AND INTRODUCE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. FOUR DEATH ROW INMATES EXECUTED
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
UGANDA. 21 YEAR OLD MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
SAUDI ARABIA. PAKISTANI MAN BEHEADED FOR BEATING COMPATRIOT TO DEATH
SOMALIA. SOLDIER PUBLICLY EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
ALGERIA. DEATH PENALTY FOR 3 FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
AUSTRIA ASKS CHINA TO REVOKE DEATH PENALTY ON CHINESE 'SPY'
LIBYA. GHANAIAN ON DEATH ROW APPEALS FOR RELEASE
SUDAN. TORTURE LANDED 10 INMATES ON DEATH ROW, LAWYERS SAY

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