China executes more people than rest of the world combined China executes more people each year
China executes more people than rest of the world combined China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined,
with its state-sanctioned system cloaked in official secrecy, said a report released Tuesday by human rights monitor Amnesty International. Several thousand people were executed in 2016 by China alone, while at least 1,032 were executed in 23 other countries globally, said Amnesty.
The estimates contradict official state figures, which put the number of executions at 85 between 2014 and 2016. Amnesty’s investigation found news reports of at least 931 individuals executed between 2014 and 2016, while the official state database showed only 85 entries.
“There’s absolutely no way to know whether the number of executions is going up or down in China,” despite claims by the Chinese government to be killing fewer and killing carefully, said Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty’s regional director for East Asia. Bequelin called on the government to publish full figures. Chinese legal scholars ha
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