CHINA When China began opening up to the world after the death of Mao Zedong, it brought with it a huge increase in crime. The regime responded with a ‘strike hard’ campaign called ‘Yanda.’ In 1983, an estimated 24,000 people were executed in the country – executions were often carried out without a fair trial and even for the smallest offenses, such as theft or prostitution. Another wave of executions occurred in 1996, when executions were often held immediately after mass public trials in stadiums.
Historical photographs document several of these executions carried out on female prisoners. Exact information about the specific law violations of each of them is not known. China considers statistics on carried-out death penalties a state secret. For this, they are criticized by human rights organizations to this day.
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