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- AUGUST 2, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Walter...
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Walter Schwimmer, warmly welcomed the decision of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan to commute all outstanding death sentences to life imprisonment
- AUGUST 2, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Haq Nawaz Balooch of Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC)-V...
Judge Haq Nawaz Balooch of Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC)-V in Karachi, sentenced defendants Kashif Aziz and Zahir to death on two counts under different sections of the Anti Terrorism Act
- AUGUST 2, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Kemerovo Region governor Aman Tuleyev called for public...
Kemerovo Region governor Aman Tuleyev called for public executions of terrorists and drugs traffickers in Russia, saying it was the only way to deal with such crimes
- AUGUST 2, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Walter...
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Walter Schwimmer, warmly welcomed the decision of Armenian President Robert Kocharyan to commute all outstanding death sentences to life imprisonment
- AUGUST 2, 2003TogoDEATH PENALTY
Marco Cappato went to Togo together with First Counsellor...
Marco Cappato went to Togo together with First Counsellor Basilio Toth
- AUGUST 2, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Continuing his mission in Africa, Marco Cappato went...
Continuing his mission in Africa, Marco Cappato went to Togo together with First Counsellor Basilio Toth
- AUGUST 2, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh convicted Mofizuddin, 53, and...
A court in Bangladesh convicted Mofizuddin, 53, and Abdus Samad Dewan, 45, and sentenced them to death for killing an aborigine man
- AUGUST 1, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Rana Mohammed Shafik Mohammed Rafik, a Pakistani national...
Rana Mohammed Shafik Mohammed Rafik, a Pakistani national caught smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was executed in the kingdom by public beheading in the western city of Jeddah
- AUGUST 1, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Rashed bin Modhesh al-Dosari, a Saudi national convicted...
Rashed bin Modhesh al-Dosari, a Saudi national convicted of shooting a compatriot to death following an argument, was executed in the Riyadh region by public beheading
- AUGUST 1, 2003BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
"The execution of a convicted murderer last month has...
"The execution of a convicted murderer last month has re-opened the controversy over the administration of the death penalty in Botswana," said an All Africa editorial
- AUGUST 1, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Rana Mohammed Shafik Mohammed Rafik, a Pakistani national...
Rana Mohammed Shafik Mohammed Rafik, a Pakistani national caught smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was executed in the kingdom by public beheading in the western city of Jeddah
- AUGUST 1, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The new Criminal Code that came into force on August...
The new Criminal Code that came into force on August 1, 2003 removed the death penalty for ordinary crimes
- AUGUST 1, 2003RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court in Gikonko convicted 105 people of...
A Rwandan court in Gikonko convicted 105 people of involvement in the central African country's 1994 genocide, with 11 of them getting the death penalty
- AUGUST 1, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian President Robert Kocharian pardoned all inmates...
Armenian President Robert Kocharian pardoned all inmates who were sentenced to death by shooting under the old Criminal Code, the presidential press service said
- AUGUST 1, 2003GhanaDEATH PENALTY
MEP Marco Cappato went to Ghana to obtain political...
MEP Marco Cappato went to Ghana to obtain political backing for the moratorium proposal on capital executions at the forthcomming UN General Assembly
- AUGUST 1, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
MEP Marco Cappato went to Ghana to obtain political...
MEP Marco Cappato went to Ghana to obtain political backing for the moratorium proposal on capital executions at the forthcomming UN General Assembly
- AUGUST 1, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The new Armenian Criminal Code came into force, envisaging...
The new Armenian Criminal Code came into force, envisaging the complete repeal of the death penalty
- AUGUST 1, 2003Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
August 4-11, 2003: a joint No Peace Without Justice...
August 4-11, 2003: a joint No Peace Without Justice and Hands Off Cain delegation, led by the President of the Transational Radical Party Sergio Stanzani, visited Sierra Leone to discuss the death penalty and the country's opinion with regard to a worldwi
- AUGUST 1, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Guangzhou, in China's Guangdong Province,...
A court in Guangzhou, in China's Guangdong Province, sentenced Zhou Chengqiu, director of the Dangerous Building Renovation and Construction Administration Institution, to death with a two year reprieve for accepting 7m yuan in bribes
- JULY 31, 2003Puerto RicoDEATH PENALTY
A federal jury acquitted two men of kidnapping and...
A federal jury acquitted two men of kidnapping and murdering a grocer, the first death penalty case to reach Puerto Rico in more than 75 years
- JULY 31, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The government daily Iran reported that two young Iranians...
The government daily Iran reported that two young Iranians found guilty of killing nine women after robbing them in the eastern town of Arak were handed multiple death sentences
- JULY 31, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hui Jinbo and Li Junlin, two Chinese men who drowned...
Hui Jinbo and Li Junlin, two Chinese men who drowned seven people in bath tubs after robbing a Beijing bath house, were sentenced to death by the No
- JULY 31, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC)...
The Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) said that Church leaders in the Philippines should not interfere in the anticipated lifting of the moratorium on judicial executions
- JULY 31, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A district court in Bangladesh sentenced two men to...
A district court in Bangladesh sentenced two men to death and two others to life imprisonment in absentia for the kidnap and murder of a boy at Dhamrai in 1995
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation...
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation to the Commission and the Council regarding the recent execution of a university student in Iran
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation...
Lista Bonino MEPs deposited an urgent interrogation to the Commission and the Council regarding the recent execution of a university student in Iran
- JULY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's...
Two Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran's Ghasr prison, the government daily Iran reported
- JULY 30, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Bahauddin Sikder, "a young man",...
It was reported that Bahauddin Sikder, "a young man", was awarded capital punishment for torturing his wife to death at Bhonga in Mehendiganj, Bangladesh, "about three years ago"
- JULY 30, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Wong Joo Sen, 34, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian...
Wong Joo Sen, 34, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court after he was found guilty of trafficking in 6,000 Ecstasy pills in 2001
- JULY 29, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Swapan Gazi, a 24 year old Bangladeshi, was sentenced...
Swapan Gazi, a 24 year old Bangladeshi, was sentenced to death by hanging for hurling acid on his nine-year-old wife, leaving her partially deaf and blind