BBC News Online. Thursday, 10 August, 2000, 18:27 GMT 19:27 UK

A Cuban human rights group says at least twenty-one people were executed by firing squad in Havana in 1999.

The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, says that in proportion to a country's total population, Cuba executes more people than the United States or China.

It said only Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo had a worse record.

The group's president, Elizardo Sanchez, told the BBC that because there are no official figures, they had compiled their report by contacting relatives of those executed.

The group says twenty-four people are on death-row in Cuba and it is calling for a moratorium to stop any further executions.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service

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