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- AUGUST 8, 2001United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The UAE introduced environmental laws that include...
The UAE introduced environmental laws that include the death penalty and fines as high as Dh10 million after several vessels ran aground and caused marine environmental disasters in territorial waters
- AUGUST 8, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Anyone found trying to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity...
Anyone found trying to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity - or anyone who converts - faces the death penalty under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law
- AUGUST 8, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Former Rwandan mayor Jean Mpambara pleaded not guilty...
Former Rwandan mayor Jean Mpambara pleaded not guilty to genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- AUGUST 8, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Anti-capital punishment activists praised the recent...
Anti-capital punishment activists praised the recent amendment of the death sentence "as a step in the right direction" but urged the government to abolish the practice entirely
- AUGUST 8, 2001DEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN KABUL
August 9: the ruling Taliban sentenced to death and publicly executed four bandits hanging their bodies from cranes and a traffic tower
- AUGUST 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men...
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men for masterminding a number of bomb blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul in November 2000, Afghan Taleban radio said
- AUGUST 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the...
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government will do all it can to secure the release of two Australian aid workers, Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested in Afghanistan on August 6
- AUGUST 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf,...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, in an unprecedented visit by the most senior judge in Britain to the People's Republic, attended the Celebration of Sino-Legal Exchange, organised by the British Council and the Chinese Ministry of
- AUGUST 7, 2001CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Cambodia's Constitutional Council approved legislation...
Cambodia's Constitutional Council approved legislation to set up a court to prosecute former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, which was blamed for the deaths of about 1
- AUGUST 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a...
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a jury in Port of Spain found them guilty of killing a man they had kidnapped and held for ransom
- AUGUST 7, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf,...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, in an unprecedented visit by the most senior judge in Britain to the People's Republic, attended the Celebration of Sino-Legal Exchange, organised by the British Council and the Chinese Ministry of
- AUGUST 7, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A labourer who was convicted of murder in 1996 escaped...
A labourer who was convicted of murder in 1996 escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal found him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter