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Secrecy surrounds death penalty

16 Apr

Posted by Otto as Human Rights

At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.
The figures come from Amnesty International’s yearly statistics, Death Sentences and Executions in 2007, issued on Tuesday, which say that at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries and [...]

Tags: China, Death Penalty, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, USA

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