The international human rights organization Amnesty International has said in a report that the death toll has risen since the lifting of the ban on the global epidemic corona virus.
According to the details, Amnesty International has released its annual report on the death penalty yesterday. Amnesty International says that many countries have also taken important steps towards abolishing the death penalty.
Which country carried out the most number of executions in 2021?
Amnesty According to the report A total of 579 people were sentenced to death in 2021, 20 percent more than the previous year, but the report did not provide details of each death sentence in each country.
Amnesty says China, Vietnam and North Korea are notorious for executing thousands, but government censorship does not reveal the exact number of executions in those countries. The death penalty provides details of the punishments that make certain things clear.
According to the report, China executed 314 people in 2021, compared to 246 in 2020. Saudi Arabia has sentenced 65 people to death, twice as many as last year.
In this regard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agen Kalamard has said that after the reduction of death sentences in 2020, Iran and Saudi Arabia have intensified the practice of executions once again this year.
About 42% of executions in Iran are for drug offenders. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has passed a resolution calling for the death penalty to be reserved only for “extremely serious crimes” such as premeditated murder.
The death toll in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Belarus, Japan and the United Arab Emirates has also risen sharply, the report said.
Amnesty International says in a report that despite the increase in the death penalty, there is a growing trend around the world to abolish the death penalty. Last year was the second lowest execution since 2010.