Amnesty International reports that more than 500 people were executed worldwide in 2010 Lydia Becker
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Rhino V Holo Plan Location In Ratchet And Clank
Amnesty International (AI) has claimed that at least 527 people were executed worldwide in 2010. Amnesty has stated that 252 were executed in Iran, 60 in North Korea, 53 in Yemen or 46 in the U.S., "although this figure does not include the thousands deejecuciones believed to have been inChina.
Thus, the organization has finalized the executions "have occurred in over 23 countries, four more than in 2009, when AI had the lowest number of countries that have executed people since it began keeping track the figures on the death penalty. "
also noted that" has not received information about executions in countries like Afghanistan, UAE, Indonesia, Mongolia and Pakistan, although it was known who had done carried out until 2008 or 2009. "Also, AI has stated that last year" has been detected in the imposition of at least 2,024 new death sentences in 64 countries.
AI data "365 of these new sentences have been passed in Pakistan; 180 in Egypt, 130 in Algeria, 114 in Malaysia, 110, U.S., 105, in India, or 100, in Afghanistan. "At the end of 2010, there were 17,833 people on death row around the world, which is a minimal amount obtained from the sum of the partial figures available," explained the organization.
"The trend is abolitionist"
In connection with such executions, Amnesty International has stated that "Saudi Arabia used ladecapitación; in the United States electrocute the condemned are shot with guns fire or were executed by lethal injection, in Bangladesh, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Japan and Singapore using the hanging, and in the Palestinian National Authority, Bahrain China, Belarus, North Korea or Taiwan are using firearms. "
For its part, the director of the English section of Amnesty International, Esteban Beltran, said that" despite the number of executed China, it is important to note that the trend is that the death penalty and the perpetrators are no longer on the payroll of the State "because, as he added," 31 countries have abolished the death penalty in recent years and since the 70 some 50 countries have as well. "The trend is clearly abolitionist" has settled.
RNE statements contained in by Europa Press, Beltran has criticized that "while China remove the death penalty for some crimes, added to others," has taken shape while "it is the country where there is extremely serious in this matter, which is a state secret and where thousands of people executed and sentenced. "
setbacks in some countries
has also reported that" although China has approved the abolition of the death penalty for 17 different types of crimes, is maintained for about of 50 crimes "and lamented that" in 2010 there have been some setbacks, as there are countries like Equatorial Guinea or the Palestinian Authority where he has been no executions and the two parts of the world where there is a greater number of executions in Asia and the Middle East. "
also has opined that" a fortunate effect that can have the peaceful revolutions and the claim of freedom in Middle East is that some of these countries may also be abolished the death penalty. "Finally, he assured us that the greatest concern in the field of death penalty is" China's executions in several countries continue imposing the death and economic crimes that are related to drugs, sex between adults or blasphemy. "
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment