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In October 2001, the North Korean government told the UN Human Rights Committee that "only 13" executions had occurred since 1998 and that no public execution had occurred since 1992. [1] On December 13, 2013, North Korean state media announced the execution of Jang Sung-taek, the uncle by marriage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. [6]
Last execution date Name Crime Method D Afghanistan: 13 November 2024 [112] Mohammad Ayaz Asad murder: public firearm: D Bahrain: 27 July 2019 [113] Ali Mohammed al-Arab, Ahmad Issa al-Mulla and 1 unnamed man terrorism: firing squad: D Bangladesh: 27 July 2023 [114] Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and Md Jahangir Alam murder: hanging: A Bhutan: 1974 ...
In 2007 a UN General Assembly committee adopted a draft resolution, co-sponsored by more than 50 countries, expressing "very serious concern" at reports of widespread human rights violations in North Korea, including public executions. North Korea condemned the draft as inaccurate and biased, but it was still sent to the then 192-member General ...
According to Amnesty International, in 2012 "public executions were known to have been carried out in Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Somalia." [ 15 ] Amnesty International does not include Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen in their list of public execution countries, but there have been reports of public executions carried out there by state ...
North Korea carries out public executions on river banks and at school grounds for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, a new report says.
[292] [293] There have been at least 64 carried out death sentences in 2016, and in 2017 five North Korean minister-level officials were executed; it is not known whether these officials were executed due to a judicial sentence or a direct order of Kim Jong-un. [294]
There are reports of public executions of Christians, [27] [28] with a North Korean defector reporting that one Christian was publicly executed in front of a thousand people. [3] For example, Ri Hyon-ok was allegedly publicly executed in Ryongchon on June 16, 2009, for giving out Bibles, while her husband and children were deported to the ...
North Korea's state media on Wednesday reported U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration but without any commentary on his presidency, but did accuse the United States of committing atrocities ...