Executions worldwide elevated by 53% in 2022 from a yr earlier, with a big rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International stated in an annual report Tuesday that additionally criticized Indonesia as having one of many highest numbers of recent loss of life sentences in Asia. Amnesty stated 70% of the executions within the Middle East and North Africa had been carried out in Iran, the place their numbers rose by 83% from 314 in 2021 to 576 in 2022. The variety of executions in Saudi Arabia tripled from 65 in 2021 to 196 in 2022. Notable will increase in comparison with 2021 had been additionally recorded in Kuwait, Myanmar, the Palestinian territories, Singapore and the United States, it stated. In all, 20 nations are recognized to have executed a complete of 883 folks, in comparison with 579 in 18 nations in 2021. For extra, FRANCE 24 is joined by Anne Denis, Head of the Commission for the Abolition of the Death Penalty at Amnesty International France.
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