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Executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022 from a year earlier, with a significant rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said in an annual report Tuesday that also criticized Indonesia as having one of the highest numbers of new death sentences in Asia...
Amnesty said 70% of the executions in the Middle East and North Africa were carried out in Iran, where their numbers rose by 83% from 314 in 2021 to 576 in 2022..
The number of executions in Saudi Arabia tripled from 65 in 2021 to 196 in 2022...
The group said 94% of 112 new death sentences in Indonesia in 2022 were based on drug-related offenses that are categorized as crimes that did not involve intentional killing, and therefore did not meet the threshold of "most serious crimes" under international law...
According to the report, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Singapore carried out at least 325 executions in total for drug-related offenses, more than double the number recorded in 2021...
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Worldwide executions increased by 53% in 2022: Amnesty report
16, May, 23Amnesty said 70% of the executions in the Middle East and North Africa were carried out in Iran. | World News