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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

Execution evidence stops Tadano selling in Iran

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Tadano cranes used
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Japanese manufacturer Tadano has stopped selling cranes into Iran after evidence emerged of the machines being used in public executions.

The company made the decision after a report, released in May by pressure group UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran), condemned Tadano and Furukawa UNIC for providing mobile cranes to Iran. The report included graphic evidence of the cranes being used to hang Iranian citizens.

UANI is currently conducting its Cranes Campaign, a campaign to stop manufacturers and local subsidaries from supplying Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. While the use of distributing pictures of the cranes being used in public executions has proven to be controversial – and in the case of accusations made against Terex in March, inaccurate - it has grabbed headlines in the US and has led several companies to re-state and clarify their policies towards the country.

Mark Wallace, the president of UANI welcomed Tadano’s move. He said that Tadano officials informed UANI that it was ending all of its business in Iran, including cutting ties with its distributor IER Iran and the Iranian company Part Loader Co.

"Tadano is a responsible corporation and its decision is another example of an international company taking the right action in the wake of UANI’s Cranes Campaign,” he said. “UANI hopes that even more crane companies will end their business in Iran as the bright light of world attention is cast on Iran’s barbaric execution binge."

Source: National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee, August 1, 2011

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