Human rights activists: In the countries of the Middle East, the death penalty is increasingly being used
In the countries of the Middle East in 2011, the death penalty was used much more often than a year earlier, ” the new report of the human rights group Amnesty International . At the same time, experts note that in the world in the world an increasing number of countries refuse to use this type of punishment. In total, according to human rights activists, in 2011, 676 prisoners were subjected to the death penalty, more than half of them in Iran, 82 similar cases in Saudi Arabia, 68 in Iraq.