Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Amnesty e pena di morte: in Cina 200 esecuzioni in una settimana

Un dato imho preoccupante denunciato da Amnesty e che riporto dal Corsera.
Inoltre, aggiungo che la Cina pare abbia il primato nel mondo per la vastità
dei casi che sono considerati reati punibili con la pena capitale: una
sessantina in tutto.
http://www.corriere.it/ultima_ora/agrnews.jsp?id=%7B2D2FD97F-16A0-4728-B8FD-
08B19CAA0A20%7D
Saluti.
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         Esteri
09 feb 08:03   Pena di morte: Amnesty, "In Cina 200
esecuzioni in 2 settimane"
                        PECHINO - Denuncia di Amnesty International: secondo
un rapporto dell'associazione che difende i diritti umani in tutto il mondo,
la Cina ha giustiziato 200 persone nelle ultime due settimane, a ridosso del
Capodanno lunare, che si festeggia da oggi per tre giorni. L'esecuzione di
dieci o piu' persone per volta sarebbe un modo di "proteggere la stabilita'
sociale e garantire che la gente possa avere un sano, allegro e felice nuovo
anno''. (Agr)

 ha
scritto:
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Cosa aspettiamo ad invaderli e a portare Abu Graib a Pekino.
Guarda intanto al ratio spaventoso di carcerati negli USA.
Saluti Cad Ali'
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Un po' di Ratio a te non farebbe male...
BWAHAHA...
Am.

 Saluti Cad Ali'
Ciao
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http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/15924.shtml
China: Horrific new year as executions rise to 100 a week
Amnesty International has monitored a significant rise in executions as
China celebrates the lunar new year.
According to incomplete statistics,
there were 200 executions reported in the two weeks leading up to the start
of the lunar new year, 9 February 2005.
There were at least 650 executions reported in local media in the months of
December and January alone. Both months are considered to be 'normal',
without the peaks seen around certain public holidays, although the true
figure is certainly much higher, as China refuses to publish full details of
all the people it executes.
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said:
"There is a huge gap between policy and practice regarding the death penalty
in China.
"While the government claims that the death penalty is applied cautiously,
the ritual peak in executions we're witnessing at the moment completely
undermines any pretence of 'caution'.
"There is the very real concern that a number of those executed may have
been innocent. China's justice system is simply not sound enough to
guarantee a fair trial."
The EU has long highlighted imposition of the death penalty as one of its
primary human rights concerns in China. Among the 200 people executed were
many sentenced for non-violent crimes such as vandalizing public
installations and economic crimes.
Kate Allen said:
"We hope EU leaders will remember these people when deciding whether to lift
the EU arms embargo on China, which was imposed in response to human rights
abuses committed in 1989."
"The Chinese government has gone to great lengths in recent years to reform
its trade and commerce laws in line with WTO rules.
"Now that government owes it to its people to show equal determination to
live up to international standards on human rights. By the time the world
gathers in Beijing in 2008 to 'celebrate humanity' under the Olympic flag,
executions must have stopped, with the death penalty abolished in practice
and in law."
Many reports of recent executions in China have justified the execution of
ten or more people at a time as a way to 'protect social stability, and
ensure that people can have a safe, joyful and happy new year'.
Kate Allen said:
"No convincing evidence has ever been produced that the death penalty deters
would-be criminals more effectively than any other punishment.
"To suggest executions 'protect social stability' is a dangerous
misconception."
Recent intense debate within China on excessive use of the death penalty has
focused on a proposed reform to allow the Supreme People's Court to review
all death sentences, rather than the current system where different courts
apply different standards.
However, this reform, and a suggestion that in some cases longer prison
sentences should be passed instead of the death penalty, will still not
address "confessions" extorted through torture, limited access to lawyers,
and political interference in the judicial process.
This interference includes the so-called "strike hard" anti-crime campaigns,
when defendants are routinely given significantly heavier sentences than at
other times.
One recent "strike hard" victim was Lu Shile, executed for murder in
Qingdao, a city on China's east coast. The legal process leading up to his
execution was praised as 'highly efficient', and an example of 'fast and
heavy sentencing policy'. Lu was tried, lost an appeal, and executed, all
within 24 days.
Unusually, the Qingdao court where Lu was tried reported the total number of
executions it had carried out in 2004. Fifty-seven people died at this
single court, one of almost 400 empowered to pass and carry out the death
penalty - implying an astronomical number of executions across the whole of
China each year.
Amnesty International opposes capital punishment on the grounds that it is
the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and violates the right
to life.