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- JULY 28, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced...
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court for illegal possession of prohibited drugs, was hanged at dawn in northeastern Iran
- JULY 28, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, 3,000 people marched...
In the West Bank town of Tulkarm, 3,000 people marched to demand the death sentence for five Palestinians accused of treason and collaboration with Israel over the killing in December 2000 of Thabet Thabet, a Fatah leader
- JULY 28, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced...
Ahmad Samanzehi, an armed Afghan bandit, sentenced to death by an Iranian revolutionary court for illegal possession of prohibited drugs, was hanged at dawn in northeastern Iran
- JULY 27, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Alvin Avon Braziel Jr
Alvin Avon Braziel Jr
- JULY 27, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International welcomed the Lebanese Parliament's...
Amnesty International welcomed the Lebanese Parliament's repeal of Law 302 which abolished judges' discretion to consider mitigating factors and made capital punishment mandatory for certain offences
- JULY 27, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdol Qayum was executed in a sports ground in the...
Abdol Qayum was executed in a sports ground in the western Herat Province
- JULY 27, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo...
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi, a South African man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a shootout
- JULY 27, 2001North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The UN's Human Rights Committee welcomed the fact that...
The UN's Human Rights Committee welcomed the fact that North Korea had cut the number of offences carrying a death penalty to five from 33 but noted that four of these offences were largely political
- JULY 27, 2001BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo...
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi, a South African man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a shootout
- JULY 27, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The health minister in the rebel Chechen administration,...
The health minister in the rebel Chechen administration, Umar Khanbiyev, who was himself taken prisoner by the Russian forces in Chechnya and tortured, has drawn up a list of the most commonly-used methods of torture employed by the federal forces both in
- JULY 27, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty activists should consider the dangers of drugs...
Amnesty activists should consider the dangers of drugs to society before begging for mercy for drug convicts on death row, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said
- JULY 27, 2001Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo Republic's exiled former Prime Minister Bernard...
Congo Republic's exiled former Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas vowed to try to return to his homeland soon despite a death sentence passed after he fled a bloody civil war