China 2000
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on China in 2000
- JULY 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ou Jianneng, convicted of kidnapping a Hong Kong businessman's...
Ou Jianneng, convicted of kidnapping a Hong Kong businessman's family, extorting money and burning two police cars, was executed in the Guangdong province by a firing squad
- JULY 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east...
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes worth 1
- JULY 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence...
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence on Ju Jiantai, 56, former deputy director of the Contemporary World Publishing Company and a member of the Communist Party for 37 years, for accepting bribes amounting to US$400,000
- JULY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three [unidentified] Chinese men, were sentenced to...
Three [unidentified] Chinese men, were sentenced to death for arson, murder and other crimes
- JULY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Muslim separatists (?Alimu Younusi), (?Duolikun...
Three Muslim separatists (?Alimu Younusi), (?Duolikun Ruozi), (?Tuerhong Awuti) were executed by firing squad for murder, bomb plots and setting up a `'Party of God" to create an independent Islamic government, immediately after a public sentencing rally
- JULY 4, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liu Jinfeng a woman who used nitric acid to burn the...
Liu Jinfeng a woman who used nitric acid to burn the face of a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to death
- JULY 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A finance official in Zhejiang province was sentenced...
A finance official in Zhejiang province was sentenced to death for embezzling public funds and illegally granting loans to his own firms
- JULY 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A former agent of the National Security Bureau (NSB)...
A former agent of the National Security Bureau (NSB) Chang Chih-peng said that two People's Liberation Army officers - Liu Lienkun and Zhow Chengjung - were sentenced to death in China in August 2000 for spying on behalf of Taiwan
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death...
The Guangdong Higher People's Court pronounced death sentences on Zhuo Bing and Chen Pei for involvement in counterfeiting bills and coins cases
- JUNE 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui,...
A railway court in Shanghai sentenced Zhao Xianhui, a farmer from southwest China's Yunnan Province, to death with two years' probation
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to...
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to death by the Haikou Municipal People's Intermediate Court
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court decreed the death penalty on Liu Futian who sold 810 grams of heroin and made an illegal gain of 105,600 yuan
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong,...
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong, Pu Shaogang, Wang Wenfu, Zhu Bixun and Zhu Jiazeng were executed in Baise City and Guigang City in Guangxi because they were found guilty of involvement in four drug-related cases
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to...
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to death by the intermediate courts in Xian and Baoji and whose death sentences had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, were executed in the two cities
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution...
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution of eight drug traffickers including Wang Yan (female), Jin Xiaoli (female), Yang Hansheng, Sun Weiyu, Tao Yaocong, Chen Manchun, Wang Weiping, and Wang Zhanping
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the...
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the death penalty on two convicted drug traffickers: 36-year old Ma Fenghua and Ma Wenzhong who werefounf guilty of trafficking 5,250 grams of heroin
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed down death sentences to Ma Xueyun, a drug trafficker, drug smugglers Yan Zai, Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan, the latter two of Burmese nationality, and drug transporters Li Jie and Gong Xiaoying
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised...
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised operation to dramatise its seriousness about fighting drug-related crime and to mark the International Anti-Drug Day
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced 24 alleged drug traffickers to death, the Chongqing Daily reported
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's...
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's Courts pronounced death sentences on seven drug traffickers including Zhuang Yuntong, Zhao Peiqing, Ma Zuoqing, Yuan Yuehong, female and Xinjiang female vagrant A-Yi-Gu-Li Yu-Su-Fu
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing to try Wu Man, 40, and reiterated that the Chinese mainland has the right to arrest and interrogate him
- JUNE 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a...
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a united action, ordered the executions of 154 drug traffickers and smugglers
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Ming and ten others (unnamed) to death; Liu Gang and seven others were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province,...
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province, were executed in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong province
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced...
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced to death in Hangzhou for embezzling over 1m yuan of public money from a bank account
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced to death seven people with a period of reprieve or life imprisonment