A truck carries criminals and suspects to a stadium for a mass sentencing rally in Yili, Xinjiang in this file photo from May 2014. Photo: Reuters
A truck carries criminals and suspects to a stadium for a mass sentencing rally in Yili, Xinjiang in this file photo from May 2014. Photo: Reuters

China still only reporting fraction of executions, Amnesty says

Despite Beijing’s pledge to better scrutinise how capital punishment is used, the national court database contains less than a tenth of the cases reported in media, rights group finds

A truck carries criminals and suspects to a stadium for a mass sentencing rally in Yili, Xinjiang in this file photo from May 2014. Photo: Reuters
A truck carries criminals and suspects to a stadium for a mass sentencing rally in Yili, Xinjiang in this file photo from May 2014. Photo: Reuters
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