Philippines 2000
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News on Philippines in 2000
- DECEMBER 10, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Joseph Estrada, threatened with...
Philippine President Joseph Estrada, threatened with removal from office for alleged corruption, ordered all death sentences affirmed by the Supreme Court to be commuted to life imprisonment
- DECEMBER 7, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
From 1995 to 1999 the Court accelerated its review...
From 1995 to 1999 the Court accelerated its review of capital cases
- NOVEMBER 16, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Four Philippine citizens were executed in Mecca (Saudi...
Four Philippine citizens were executed in Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive...
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive against international and domestic terrorists was filed in the Senate
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The House of Representatives proposed a bill which...
The House of Representatives proposed a bill which advocated reducing the amount of illegal drugs found on a person in order to be eligible for the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
There were reports that at least 600 civilians had...
There were reports that at least 600 civilians had been killed or injured after President Estrada ordered thousands of troops to launch an attack on the bases of the armed Islamic separatist group Abu Sayyaf on the southern Philippine island of Jolo
- AUGUST 17, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Inquiries were launched after TV footage contradicted...
Inquiries were launched after TV footage contradicted claims that government forces acted in self-defence in a jungle shootout involving 16 members of a religious cult
- AUGUST 9, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao came out with a comprehensive report...
Kalinaw Mindanao came out with a comprehensive report on its fact-finding, relief and medical mission in the war-torn areas of Central and Western Mindanao
- JULY 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that...
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that the draft bill offering reduced sentences to death-row convicts who donate their kidneys sounded "creative" but was morally defective
- JUNE 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association...
Mariano Santiago, chairman of the Kidney Patient Association of the Philippines (KPAP) board of trustees, said his group would ask the House of Representatives to allow death row inmates and other convicts to donate their organs in exchange for commutatio
- JUNE 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement...
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement regarding the transfer of Filipino and British nationals serving prison sentences in the two countries
- JUNE 20, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned...
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned by the House committee on human rights, reported that two Moro farmers, Kole Jalodin and Nasser Tambag, were summarily executed at the height of military offensives in Pikit
- MAY 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia...
A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia for attempted murder
- MAY 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice Secretary Artemio G
Justice Secretary Artemio G
- MAY 23, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that would commute a death sentence to life imprisonment if the guilty person agreed to donate an organ for transplant
- MAY 18, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
- MAY 15, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign...
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into the cases of three female Filipino workers facing execution overseas, for offences committed in their host countries
- MAY 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and...
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and other vigilante groups in Mindanao were responsible for human rights abuses, including hostage-taking and killings
- APRIL 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death...
Philippines abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of...
Senator Loren Legarda asked for the commutation of the death sentences of 13 convicts who are more than 70 years old, or about to turn 70 this year, saying the death penalty law precludes the execution of convicts over 70 for humanitarian reasons
- APRIL 13, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding...
President Joseph Estrada warned Islamic rebels holding 31 hostages that he would show no mercy if any of the captives were harmed
- APRIL 11, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted of murder, robbery and having illicit sex with an Indonesian maid
- APRIL 5, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two...
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two soldiers, Marcial Ambulo and Jovy Rubio, who shot dead six innocent civilians in Mindoro Oriental, to be meted the death penalty for their crime
- APRIL 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union's Portuguese Presidency welcomed...
The European Union's Portuguese Presidency welcomed President Joseph Estrada's decision to suspend the death penalty
- APRIL 1, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), in reference...
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), in reference to the moratorium stated that "The postponement of the executions of death convicts might destroy the credence of our death penalty law
- MARCH 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on a Filipino drug trafficker by the High Court in 1998
- MARCH 29, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted...
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted rapist whom officials were set to execute despite a reprieve granted him two days earlier
- MARCH 28, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
- MARCH 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Speaker Manuel B
Speaker Manuel B
- MARCH 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on...
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on 18 out of 959 death convicts awaiting execution by lethal injection out of respect for the world-wide celebration of the Jubilee Year