Atlas
13th April 2017, 21:26
China's horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to execute thousands of people each year.
Excluding China, states around the world executed 1,032 people in 2016. China executed more than all other countries in the world put together, while the USA reached a historic low in its use of the death penalty in 2016.
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A new in-depth investigation by Amnesty International shows that the Chinese authorities enforce an elaborate secrecy system to obscure the shocking scale of executions in the country, despite repeated claims it is making progress towards judicial transparency.
Amnesty International’s investigation exposes that hundreds of documented death penalty cases are missing from a national online court database that was initially touted as a “crucial step towards openness” and is regularly heralded as evidence that the country’s judicial system has nothing to hide.
China’s database contains only a tiny fraction of the thousands of death sentences that Amnesty International estimates are handed out every year in China, reflecting the fact that the Chinese government continues to maintain almost total secrecy over the number of people sentenced to death and executed in the country.
China classifies most information related to the death penalty as “state secrets” and in any case virtually any information can be classified as a state secret under China’s overbroad secrecy laws.
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Amnesty International found public news reports of at least 931 individuals executed between 2014 and 2016 (only a fraction of the total executions), but only 85 of them are in the state database.
The database also omits foreign nationals given death sentences for drug-related crimes -despite media reports of at least 11 executions of foreign nationals. Numerous cases related to “terrorism” and drug-related offences are also absent.
“The Chinese government uses partial disclosures and unverifiable assertions to claim progress in reducing the number of executions yet at the same time maintains near absolute secrecy. This is deliberately misleading.” said Salil Shetty.
With just four countries responsible for 87% of all recorded executions – the death penalty is itself living on borrowed time.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-come-clean-about-capital-punishment/
See also:
Interviews Before Execution via China TV (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?65045-Interviews-Before-Execution-via-China-TV&p=752199&viewfull=1#post752199)
China's Shocking Military Secret Revealed (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91713-Organ-harvesting-on-live-people-organised-by-Chinese-govt&p=1098235&viewfull=1#post1098235)
Excluding China, states around the world executed 1,032 people in 2016. China executed more than all other countries in the world put together, while the USA reached a historic low in its use of the death penalty in 2016.
CZmqwCgN-ms
A new in-depth investigation by Amnesty International shows that the Chinese authorities enforce an elaborate secrecy system to obscure the shocking scale of executions in the country, despite repeated claims it is making progress towards judicial transparency.
Amnesty International’s investigation exposes that hundreds of documented death penalty cases are missing from a national online court database that was initially touted as a “crucial step towards openness” and is regularly heralded as evidence that the country’s judicial system has nothing to hide.
China’s database contains only a tiny fraction of the thousands of death sentences that Amnesty International estimates are handed out every year in China, reflecting the fact that the Chinese government continues to maintain almost total secrecy over the number of people sentenced to death and executed in the country.
China classifies most information related to the death penalty as “state secrets” and in any case virtually any information can be classified as a state secret under China’s overbroad secrecy laws.
XmevH4GeRsY
Amnesty International found public news reports of at least 931 individuals executed between 2014 and 2016 (only a fraction of the total executions), but only 85 of them are in the state database.
The database also omits foreign nationals given death sentences for drug-related crimes -despite media reports of at least 11 executions of foreign nationals. Numerous cases related to “terrorism” and drug-related offences are also absent.
“The Chinese government uses partial disclosures and unverifiable assertions to claim progress in reducing the number of executions yet at the same time maintains near absolute secrecy. This is deliberately misleading.” said Salil Shetty.
With just four countries responsible for 87% of all recorded executions – the death penalty is itself living on borrowed time.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-come-clean-about-capital-punishment/
See also:
Interviews Before Execution via China TV (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?65045-Interviews-Before-Execution-via-China-TV&p=752199&viewfull=1#post752199)
China's Shocking Military Secret Revealed (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?91713-Organ-harvesting-on-live-people-organised-by-Chinese-govt&p=1098235&viewfull=1#post1098235)