The three convicts, all men found guilty of murder, were executed by hanging on Tuesday, according to the Kyoto news agency, which noted that Japan’s last execution was carried out in December 2019, when PM Shinzo Abe was still in office. Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, was reportedly sentenced to death after …
Read More »In North Korea, discovered hundreds of sites for public executions
South Korean non-governmental organization said that she was able to establish the whereabouts of 318 places in North Korea where there are public executions of people disliked the regime. Staff of human rights organizations Transitional Justice Working Group for the past four years, interviewed 610 defectors from North Korea. The …
Read More »The UN has called the countries-leaders by quantity of executions
In the rating hit China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. In 2016 the highest number of recorded executions in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. This was announced by UN Secretary-General, antónio Guterres, reports the UN news Center. “In 2016 the number of executions worldwide dropped by 37% compared with …
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