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SEPTEMBER 5, 2006RwandaDEATH PENALTYRWANDA. PARLIAMENT TO VOTE ON ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
Rwanda will pass a law ending capital punishment by December 2006 to encourage European countries to extradite suspected masterminds of the genocide that occurred in the country in 1994. Unless the country abolishes capital punishment, it will not be ab
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. MUSLIMS PARALYSE POSO DEMANDING EXECUTION OF TIBO AND FELLOW PRISONERS
under the banner ‘Poso’s Muslim Friendship and Struggle’, some 4,000 demonstrators...
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Gholam-Reza Rigi, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Gholam-Reza Rigi, for drug-related crime.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. IRAQI EXECUTED FOR DRUG DEALING
Saudi Arabia executed Muhammad Bin-Shalal Bin-Farhud al-Shammari, an Iraqi man convicted of trafficking heroin in the strict Muslim kingdom.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. CHIEF JUSTICE IN SUPPORT OF DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUGS CONVICTS
Chairman of the Indonesian Supreme Court, Bagir Manan, expressed his support for the imposition of death penalty for drugs convicts.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
Iran hanged a man, Hamid Hosna’i, for drug-related crime.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE MEMBERS OF CRIME RING SENTENCED TO DEATH
Ren Jianying, Tang Weitao and Tang Yongli were sentenced to death by the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court in China’s Shaanxi Province for their involvement in a crime ring responsible for 22 robberies, 28 thefts and one murder from 2000 to 2004.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TO MONKS FOR MURDER
the Gujarat High Court, India, commuted the death sentences handed down to four swami’s into life imprisonment and acquitted a fifth defendant in the case.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2006AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN. MAN PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN HELMAND
the Taliban publicly executed a man for his alleged involvement in a murder case in the Garmsir district of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR MILITANTS
a Bangladeshi court upheld the death sentence handed down three months previously against seven Islamist militants over the killing of two judges in a bomb attack in 2005.
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. COURT CONVICTS SHIITE MILITANT
a Pakistan court convicted and sentenced to death a Shiite Muslim militant of organizing the bombing of a Sunni gathering that killed 39 people in 2004.
- AUGUST 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON SISTERS FOR CHILD MURDER
India's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for two sisters convicted of kidnapping 13 children to join a gang of thieves and murdering at least five of them.