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- DECEMBER 27, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a law...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a law confirming amendments to criminal legislation aimed at mitigating punishments for a number of crimes
- DECEMBER 27, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah said he would...
Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah said he would challenge the death penalty awarded to the three convicted in the Parliament attack case
- DECEMBER 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six members of a gang that murdered five people, ran...
Six members of a gang that murdered five people, ran illegal casinos and peddled guns in the southern island province of Hainan, were sentenced to death by the Hainan Provincial Intermediate People's Court
- DECEMBER 26, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
On the proposed death penalty for those convicted of...
On the proposed death penalty for those convicted of raping minors National Unity and Social Development parliamentary secretary Datuk S
- DECEMBER 26, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Some 50 human rights advocates gathered outside the...
Some 50 human rights advocates gathered outside the defence ministry in the capital, Kinshasa, chanting hymns and demanding justice for the scores of people facing death sentences for the assassination of former President Laurent-Desire Kabila
- DECEMBER 25, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation forces executed 32-year-old Ibrahim Talib Abu-Hawwash by opening fire on him after storming a building in Nablus
- DECEMBER 25, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation forces executed 32-year-old Ibrahim Talib Abu-Hawwash by opening fire on him after storming a building in Nablus
- DECEMBER 25, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eleven convicts were executed after a public sentencing...
Eleven convicts were executed after a public sentencing rally in Wuhan
- DECEMBER 25, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A group of women widowed in the anti-Sikh riots of...
A group of women widowed in the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 protested the acquittal of former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar the riots case and demanded a probe into the carnage in which more than 2,700 people were killed in the capital
- DECEMBER 25, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Referring to the four death sentences issued on December...
Referring to the four death sentences issued on December 23 for the murder of a traffic constable, the journalist Rasheeda Bhagat wrote "There is a point of view that the judgement is too harsh and the evidence there too is quite flimsy
- DECEMBER 25, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lu Zongda, 43, was sentenced to death for raping eight...
Lu Zongda, 43, was sentenced to death for raping eight teenage girls and bribing police to call off their investigation, state media said
- DECEMBER 24, 2002United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death in Sudan by the Ras Al...
A man was sentenced to death in Sudan by the Ras Al Khaimah Sharia Court for murder
- DECEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The ringleader of a mob and two of his followers were...
The ringleader of a mob and two of his followers were sentenced to death by a local court in Jilin Province, northeast China
- DECEMBER 24, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International spoke out against the death sentence...
Amnesty International spoke out against the death sentence imposed in Vietnam on Le My Linh, 43, an Australian convicted on August 28 of trafficking 888 grams of heroin and 209 grams of diazepam
- DECEMBER 24, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Vietnamese community in Australia said that the...
The Vietnamese community in Australia said that the federal government should take a tough stand to force Vietnam to stop the firing squad in the case of Le My Linh, an Australian woman convicted on drug offences
- DECEMBER 24, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The Vietnamese community in Australia said that the...
The Vietnamese community in Australia said that the federal government should take a tough stand to force Vietnam to stop the firing squad in the case of Le My Linh, an Australian woman convicted on drug offences
- DECEMBER 24, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International spoke out against the death sentence...
Amnesty International spoke out against the death sentence imposed in Vietnam on Le My Linh, 43, an Australian convicted on August 28 of trafficking 888 grams of heroin and 209 grams of diazepam
- DECEMBER 24, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death by the Ras Al Khaimah...
A man was sentenced to death by the Ras Al Khaimah Sharia Court for murder
- DECEMBER 24, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A group of parliamentarians of Georgia intended to...
A group of parliamentarians of Georgia intended to appeal to Supreme Court Chairman Vladimir Chanturia requesting him not to approve the decision adopted by the Prosecutor General's Office on the extradition to Russia of three Chechens detained in early
- DECEMBER 24, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
A group of parliamentarians intended to appeal to Supreme...
A group of parliamentarians intended to appeal to Supreme Court Chairman Vladimir Chanturia requesting him not to approve the decision adopted by the Prosecutor General's Office on the extradition to Russia of three Chechens detained in early August on t
- DECEMBER 24, 2002YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted murderers, including a military officer,...
Two convicted murderers, including a military officer, were executed by firing squad, the Yemeni public prosecutor said in a statement
- DECEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jilin Provincial Higher People's Court approved...
The Jilin Provincial Higher People's Court approved the execution of alleged gang members Tian Bo, age 39, Li Jiayong, and Xu Chenggui
- DECEMBER 23, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Following a detailed study on the issue, Justice P...
Following a detailed study on the issue, Justice P N Bhagwati was reported as saying that in India only the poor were sent to the gallows
- DECEMBER 23, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Four activists of the banned group, Al-Umma, were sentenced...
Four activists of the banned group, Al-Umma, were sentenced to death and four others to life imprisonment by the second fast track court judge, R
- DECEMBER 23, 2002KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyzstan's human rights commissioner, Tursunbai Bakiruulu,...
Kyrgyzstan's human rights commissioner, Tursunbai Bakiruulu, said he wrote to President Askar Akayev to propose abolishing the death penalty in the country, which declared a moratorium on capital punishment in 2000 and has extended it every year since
- DECEMBER 23, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli army units executed Shaman Hasan Subuh, 28, and Mustafa Jalal Qash, 28, from Burqin village in Jenin Governorate
- DECEMBER 23, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court rejected an appeal by Le My Linh,...
A Vietnamese court rejected an appeal by Le My Linh, 43, an Australian woman of Vietnamese origin, who is facing the death penalty for drug trafficking
- DECEMBER 23, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli army units executed Shaman Hasan Subuh, 28, and Mustafa Jalal Qash, 28, from Burqin village in Jenin Governorate
- DECEMBER 23, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
"I am disappointed that on 23 December the People's...
"I am disappointed that on 23 December the People's Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence imposed on Australian citizen, Le My Linh, following her conviction for 'transporting' heroin," read a statement issued by Australian Foreign A
- DECEMBER 23, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"I am disappointed that on 23 December the People's...
"I am disappointed that on 23 December the People's Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence imposed on Australian citizen, Le My Linh, following her conviction for 'transporting' heroin," read a statement issued by Australian Foreign A