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2026
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- SEPTEMBER 9, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
Nationalist Action Party (MHP) applied to the Constitutional...
Nationalist Action Party (MHP) applied to the Constitutional Court requesting the annulment of six articles of the EU Adjustment Law and asking the court to stop their enforcement
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given...
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given to 88 people in Nyala in the Darfour region of Sudan
- AUGUST 5, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Commission asked Turkey to provide details...
The European Commission asked Turkey to provide details on a package of human rights reforms, including the abolition of the death penalty, seen as the country's first step towards starting membership talks with the European Union
- AUGUST 3, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption...
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption of the third European Union (EU) Reform Package by the Turkish Parliament as an important signal of the determination of the majority of Turkey's political leaders towards further alignment to the v
- JULY 25, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union urged the United States to lift...
The European Union urged the United States to lift the death sentences on three men convicted of murder
- JULY 11, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament's Citizens' Rights Committee...
The European Parliament's Citizens' Rights Committee called for people not to be extradited to countries where they could face the death penalty for their crimes
- MAY 16, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution by 354...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution by 354 votes in favour, 29against with 31 abstentions deploring the situation in Iraq, eleven years after the Gulf War
- MAY 15, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, in an address...
President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, in an address to the European Parliament welcomed the support from the EP in taking up the cases of citizens facing the death penalty and inparticular that of Gerardo Valdis whose life has now been saved
- APRIL 26, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
European Union justice ministers gave the go-ahead...
European Union justice ministers gave the go-ahead for negotiations on an EU-US extradition and judicial co-operation agreement, but proposed conditions that the Americans seem unlikely to accept
- APRIL 25, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution by 439...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution by 439 votes to 10, with 59 abstentions
- APRIL 25, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
April 25/26, 2002: at their two-day Council meeting...
April 25/26, 2002: at their two-day Council meeting in Luxembourg, the EU's Justice and Home Affairs Ministers adopted a negotiating mandate for an EU-United States Judicial Assistance Accord, which allows EU countries to refuse to extradite someone if a
- APRIL 17, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament urged the Nigerian Federal...
The European Parliament urged the Nigerian Federal Government to ensure that law courts act in accordance with international law on human rights and the declaration of rights included in Nigeria's Constitution