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- NOVEMBER 12, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Margherita...
Italian undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Margherita Bonniver, speaking on at the senate's human rights commission to explain the government's decision for the non presentation of a resolution for a universal moratorium on capital executions at the ongoi
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced...
The Speedy Trial Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced seven people to death and one person to life imprisonment for killing Juba Dal leader Kabul Khan, 27
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The 7th Additional District and Sessions Court of Dhaka,...
The 7th Additional District and Sessions Court of Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced Abdul Kader to death penalty for stabbing to death his wife
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Robert Barbers urged Philippine President Gloria...
Senator Robert Barbers urged Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to consider death by "firing squad" as the most effective deterrent to quash the drug menace in the country
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President...
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President Peter Schieder and the Secretary General of the Organisation, Walter Schwimmer, welcomed Turkey's formal deposition of the ratification instruments for Protocol No
- NOVEMBER 12, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President...
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President Peter Schieder and the Secretary General of the Organisation, Walter Schwimmer, welcomed Turkey's formal deposition of the ratification instruments for Protocol No
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Allahabad high court, India, commuted six death...
The Allahabad high court, India, commuted six death sentences, in four separate cases
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan...
Niaz Ahmed, a Muslim, was sentenced to death in Pakistan for insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 121 death row convicts were awaiting execution...
A total of 121 death row convicts were awaiting execution in prisons nationwide, the Malaysian Senate was told
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Four Iranian men found guilty of a series of kidnappings...
Four Iranian men found guilty of a series of kidnappings and rapes were sentenced to execution by stoning, the conservative Qods newspaper said
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Papua New Guinea Justice Minister Mark Maipakai admitted...
Papua New Guinea Justice Minister Mark Maipakai admitted in parliament that there was a problem in how the death penalty would be carried out once it was imposed on a prisoner
- NOVEMBER 10, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ishaq, 36 year old betel leaf seller, was...
Mohammad Ishaq, 36 year old betel leaf seller, was sentenced to death by a District and Sessions court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for the murder of a neighbour following an argumant over payment of Tk 20 at Banshkhali
- NOVEMBER 10, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
More than 10,000 rights activists demonstrated in the...
More than 10,000 rights activists demonstrated in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt to mark the eighth anniversary of the execution of writer and campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa, witnesses said
- NOVEMBER 10, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of...
The attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Bauchi State, Mallam Habib Aliyu warned against the abolition of the death penalty in Nigeria saying that any such attempt was an invitation for a military coup
- NOVEMBER 9, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
A man was shot dead by firing squad in the Chadian...
A man was shot dead by firing squad in the Chadian capital Ndjamena for the murder of a Guatemalan religious worker
- NOVEMBER 9, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan's Vice President Annette Lu called on parliament...
Taiwan's Vice President Annette Lu called on parliament to better safeguard human rights by approving a draft of the country's first "human rights basic law", including the abolition of the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 8, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
"There are 263 mass graves, including approximately...
"There are 263 mass graves, including approximately 40 of them confirmed to hold evidence of systematic killings," said Sandra Hodgkinson, director of the Office for Human Rights Transitional Justice (OHRTJ) within the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in India's capital, Delhi, sentenced to death...
A court in India's capital, Delhi, sentenced to death a former politician who shot his wife and burned her dismembered body in a restaurant oven
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
A UN panel denounced persistent reports of torture...
A UN panel denounced persistent reports of torture in Sri Lanka and criticised the impunity enjoyed by security forces for crimes committed in the conflict with the Tamil Tiger rebels
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003DEATH PENALTY
A UN panel denounced persistent reports of torture...
A UN panel denounced persistent reports of torture in Sri Lanka and criticised the impunity enjoyed by security forces for crimes committed in the conflict with the Tamil Tiger rebels
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Timothy Keel, 39, was executed by lethal injection...
Joseph Timothy Keel, 39, was executed by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
A jury that convicted an ex-convict of savagely beating...
A jury that convicted an ex-convict of savagely beating his former girlfriend to death has recommended that he be sentenced to die by lethal injection
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing...
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for a man sentenced to death, ruling that the man did not get to fairly question a witness
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese man was publicly executed by firing squad...
A Sudanese man was publicly executed by firing squad in Chad's capital city of Ndjamena
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Five people, including a woman, were shot dead in front...
Five people, including a woman, were shot dead in front of thousands of people in a suburb of southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh city
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ChadDEATH PENALTY
Chad ignored protests from human rights groups and...
Chad ignored protests from human rights groups and carried out the death penalty for the first time since 1991, executing eight people after vowing to crack down on unrest in the impoverished desert state
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HOC president Marco Pannella MEP, criticised the centre-right...
HOC president Marco Pannella MEP, criticised the centre-right Casa delle Liberta, or House of Freedoms, majority in Parliament for the "compact vote" that failed to commit the government to present to the UN General Assembly currently in session a resolut
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
"the Italian government has given up on the moratorium...
"the Italian government has given up on the moratorium resolution and faced with this cowardice, I renounce my Italian passport," HOC Board Member Oliviero Toscani stated in reaction to the Italian government's failure to present the resolution calling fo
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Chamber of Representatives approved two...
The Italian Chamber of Representatives approved two motions presented by government MPs that generically require the government to "despite the verified lack of consensus currently at a European level, continue in every forum the intensive political and d
- NOVEMBER 6, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain Secretary-General Sergio D'Elia says...
Hands Off Cain Secretary-General Sergio D'Elia says the Italian EU presidency has passed up on what may be its last chance to score a success before the end of its term