Death penalty in 2019: Middle East on the front line, Amnesty says

During a demonstration in Jakarta against the execution of Indonesian servants in Saudi Arabia, a woman brandishes a sign: "Saudi Arabia is a criminal of humanity". Photo dated June 2011. AFP / ADEK BERRY

By: Eric Bataillon

We take stock with Anne Denis, responsible for the file on the abolition of the death penalty at Amnesty International France. The Middle East is the main focus (so to speak) for death sentences (apart from China, which is breaking all records).

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Overview of the countries concerned, from Iran to Saudi Arabia, but also South Sudan or Egypt. We will also discuss the reliability of trials, the question of public executions, that of the convictions of minors (with Riyadh who will no longer execute them) and of course the current situation, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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