{"id":43029,"date":"2014-10-21T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=43029 "},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:07:00","slug":"43029-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=43029","title":{"rendered":"Activists: China Executed 2,400 People in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE – A drug dealer is sentenced to death by a judge during a public trial at a university gymnasium.<\/div>
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A U.S.-based rights group says the number of executions carried out in China likely decreased by 20 percent in 2013.<\/div>
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In a report Monday, the Dui Hua Foundation estimated China executed 2,400 people in 2013, and will likely execute the same number this year.<\/div>
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That is more than three times as many executions than what Amnesty International said occurred in the rest of the world combined in 2013.<\/div>
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Death penalty figures are treated as a state secret in China, forcing rights groups to rely on second-hand reports and statements by anonymous officials.<\/div>
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Dui Hua’s report was based on information published in the influential and relatively progressive Southern Weekly newspaper, based in Guangzhou.<\/div>
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The group also received statements from a judicial official who reportedly had access to the number of executions carried out each year.<\/div>
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China is thought to have executed fewer people following a 2007 decision to give the Supreme People’s Court the authority to review all death sentences.<\/div>
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Dui Hua says 39 percent of all death penalty cases have been sent to the court for review and that fewer than 10 percent of the verdicts have been overturned.<\/div>
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In recent years, China has also reduced the number of crimes that carry the death penalty, though executions are still carried out as punishment for some non-violent crimes, such as drug trafficking and corruption.<\/div>
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