Amnesty: Executions rise after COVID restrictions end
Executions worldwide rose in 2021 compared to the previous year, Amnesty International revealed on May 24 in its annual report on the death penalty. "China, North Korea and Vietnam continued to shroud their use of the death penalty behind layers of secrecy, but, as ever, the little we saw is cause for great alarm," said Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, in a statement. "After the drop in their execution totals in 2020, Iran and Saudi Arabia once again ramped up their use of the death penalty last year, including by shamelessly violating prohibitions put in place under international human rights law. Death penalty targets minorities Amnesty criticized several countries for apparently using capital punishment as a tool of state repression.
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