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Asia > Afghanistan > Crime

AFGHAN CRIME STATS:   All Stats  
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Acquitted 64 [28th of 30]
Convicted 971 [33rd of 34]
Executions 15 executions [9th of 22]
    Executions (per capita) 0.334124 executions per 1 million [19th of 33]
Illicit drugs
world's largest producer of opium; poppy cultivation increased 17% to a near-record 202,000 hectares in 2007; good growing conditions pushed potential opium production to a record 8,000 metric tons, up 42% from last year; if the entire opium crop were processed, 947 metric tons of heroin potentially could be produced; drug trade is a source of instability and the Taliban and other antigovernment groups participate in and profit from the drug trade; widespread corruption impedes counterdrug efforts; most of the heroin consumed in Europe and Eurasia is derived from Afghan opium; vulnerable to drug money laundering through informal financial networks; regional source of hashish
Judges and Magistrates 1,920 [11th of 35]

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SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Amnesty International; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Afghanistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan, Afghanestan

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