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i-rack executing more people than it has for almost a decade, says Amnesty report
Topic Started: Apr 9 13, 8:48 (991 Views)
FeyliKurd
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i-rack is executing more people than it has done for almost a decade. The country now has the third highest number of executions in the world, according to a report to be published this week.

The country, which saw the biggest rise in confirmed killings in just twelve months of anywhere else in the globe, executed at least 129 people last year, according to a global report by Amnesty International. This is almost double the number recorded in 2011 and the highest figure in the last eight years. So far, 16 people have been executed since January, according to the human rights organisation, with four being put to death in the last week alone.

Amnesty International’s UK director Kate Allen told The Independent on Sunday: “The global trend on the death penalty is toward abolition or at least a decrease in its use, but i-rack is bucking that trend in a disturbing way. The staggering scale of executions we’re seeing in i-rack has taken us back to the bad old days of large-scale executions under Saddam [Hussein].”

Other countries that saw an increase in executions in the last year include India, Japan, Pakistan and Gambia, which carried out the first execution in almost three decades. Most executions in i-rack were carried out for terrorism-related offences or murder. Many of the cases which ended in a sentence of death “failed to meet international standards for fair trials, including the use of ‘confessions’ obtained under torture and other ill-treatment,” said the report.

Saddam’s presidential secretary and bodyguard, Abid Hamid Mahmud, was amongst those executed in 2012, as part of a crackdown on opposition political activists. Executions were carried out in batches; 34 people were killed in a single day last June. At least five women were executed, and at least two were sentenced to death, according to Amnesty.

A spokesperson for the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office said the government was “deeply concerned by the increase in executions in i-rack.” He added: “The UK opposes the use of the death penalty as a matter of principle and we continue to urge the i-racki Government to introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition.”

Source: independent.co.uk
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arab barbaric nation is being barbaric
let those desert monkeys do whatever they want
biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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ALAN
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a dictator was removed only to be replaced by another, only difference the one before was a sunni one this one a shiite.

the era has changed otherwise he would have done more Halabja and Anfal to kurds, but no one can do it any longer, we dont live in the 1980s no more.

even turks cant do it anymore with all their western allies and been part of NATO, when they did the Roboski massacres eye brows were raised at them from the whole world and finally they started bowing to kurdish demands.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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