Tag: Execution

China Still Global Leader in Death Penalty Use

Amnesty International released the 2012 “Death Sentences and Executions” report this week, showing that a global trend towards abolishing capital punishment is continuing. From Amnesty International’s press release: Only 21 of the world’s countries were recorded as having carried out executions in 2012 – the same number as in 2011, but down from 28 countries a decade earlier in 20

April 12, 2013 3:31 PM

Police Silence Visitors to Executed Dissident’s Grave

Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the execution of Lin Zhao, a dissident who wrote criticisms of the government in he

April 29, 2013 9:28 PM

CCTV Pre-Execution Spectacle Polarizes Viewers

Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sail

March 1, 2013 5:50 PM

Bo Xilai Trial May, May Not Start Monday

The South China Morning Post has poured lukewarm water on earlier reports, originating in state media, that the trial of

January 25, 2013 4:20 PM

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