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The group's secretary general Salil Shetty told reporters earlier this week "our estimate [for China] is that they execute as much as the rest of the world," the New York Times reported. The AI report said 2015 saw a dramatic global rise in the number of executions, with more people put to death than at any point in the last 25 years. It blamed the surge on executions carried out by Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.