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- OCTOBER 27, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
About 60 percent of Koreans favour retaining the death...
About 60 percent of Koreans favour retaining the death penalty according to a recent poll
- OCTOBER 27, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Taliban fighters have a chilling four-year history...
Taliban fighters have a chilling four-year history of atrocities, a United Nations human rights investigator said
- OCTOBER 27, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said that the investigation...
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said that the investigation against detained French journalist Michel Peyrard was nearly over and that the findings would be presented in court soon
- OCTOBER 27, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
One in three homes in a poor village of the Ningxia...
One in three homes in a poor village of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in west China had seen at least one family member die from a drug overdose, the Workers' Daily found
- OCTOBER 27, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said that the investigation...
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said that the investigation against detained French journalist Michel Peyrard was nearly over and that the findings would be presented in court soon
- OCTOBER 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian police said they had renewed a crackdown on...
Iranian police said they had renewed a crackdown on satellite dishes after the authorities blamed a spate of riots on television broadcasts by exiled opposition groups
- OCTOBER 27, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo threw...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo threw her weight behind the execution of kidnappers because some gang leaders continued to operate from their jails using cellular phones
- OCTOBER 26, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The New York-based rights organisation, Human Rights...
The New York-based rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), condemned a recent ruling by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria that sentenced a woman to death by stoning for having sex before marriage
- OCTOBER 26, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
A US anti-abortion activist wanted for the 1998 killing...
A US anti-abortion activist wanted for the 1998 killing of a gynaecologist lost his last judicial appeal against an order for his extradition
- OCTOBER 26, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Arshad Mehmood Tabbasum handed down the death...
Judge Arshad Mehmood Tabbasum handed down the death sentence to Muhammad Anwar in a murder case
- OCTOBER 26, 2001ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
High Court Judge Peter Chitengi, speaking at a two-day...
High Court Judge Peter Chitengi, speaking at a two-day seminar organised by the Human Rights Commission, said law enforcement officers in Zambia have a total disregard or "a deliberate and conscious conviction and a decision to ignore human rights
- OCTOBER 26, 2001BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
China will let an investigator from the United Nations...
China will let an investigator from the United Nations look into allegations of torture carried out by police and prison officials, the head of a European Union human rights delegation said