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- NOVEMBER 26, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic authorities in the northern Nigerian state...
Islamic authorities in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara issued a fatwa urging Muslims to kill Isioma Daniel, a writer for the private daily This Day, whose November 16 article about the Miss World pageant sparked deadly riots across the country
- NOVEMBER 26, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Islamic authorities in the northern Nigerian state...
Islamic authorities in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara issued a fatwa urging Muslims to kill Isioma Daniel, a writer for the private daily This Day, whose November 16 article about the Miss World pageant sparked deadly riots across the country
- NOVEMBER 26, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced two...
A court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced two men to death for murdering a used car dealer in Tehran
- NOVEMBER 26, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Aghajari, the prominent Iranian academic condemned...
Aghajari, the prominent Iranian academic condemned to death for blasphemy refuses to appeal his sentence, his lawyer told AFP, after the judiciary said the controversial verdict will be upheld unless Hashem Aghajari lodges an appeal
- NOVEMBER 26, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said in the Lok Sabha...
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said in the Lok Sabha that the government favours the death sentence for rapists and would like to enact a law for this in consultations with states and political parties
- NOVEMBER 26, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The UN Third Committee approved a draft resolution...
The UN Third Committee approved a draft resolution calling for effective action to eliminate extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- NOVEMBER 25, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Red Cross said that 200 people died during clashes...
The Red Cross said that 200 people died during clashes in Kaduna
- NOVEMBER 25, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The relocation of the Miss World Contest away from...
The relocation of the Miss World Contest away from the Nigerian capital Abuja dealt a resounding setback to the process of democracy in Nigeria, Hands Off Cain said
- NOVEMBER 25, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sun Yongyao, 20, and his girlfriend, Guo Baorong, 36,...
Sun Yongyao, 20, and his girlfriend, Guo Baorong, 36, charged with masterminding and detonating a bomb at a ballroom in northwest China's Xi'an City in September were found guilty and sentenced to death by the local intermediate people's court
- NOVEMBER 25, 2002TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan was hit by a wave of deaths and hospitalisations...
Taiwan was hit by a wave of deaths and hospitalisations from the consumption of bootleg rice wine that contains methanol, a poisonous substance found in industrial alcohol
- NOVEMBER 25, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Inkatha Freedom Party called on the government...
The Inkatha Freedom Party called on the government to conduct a referendum to determine whether people want a reinstatement of the death penalty in South Africa
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangdong police executed six people convicted of forging...
Guangdong police executed six people convicted of forging bank drafts
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's student movement bowed to pressure from ruling...
Iran's student movement bowed to pressure from ruling hardliners and called a halt to two weeks of nationwide protests in defence of a liberal academic sentenced to death
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian authorities slapped an outright ban on further...
Iranian authorities slapped an outright ban on further student demonstrations against the sentencing to death of a pro-reform dissident academic
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Leading Iranian reformists warned students that powerful...
Leading Iranian reformists warned students that powerful conservatives planned to impose emergency rule if university demonstrations against a dissident's death sentence got out of hand
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002NebraskaDEATH PENALTY
During a special session of the Nebraska legislature,...
During a special session of the Nebraska legislature, members enacted a bill that attempts to bring the state's law into compliance with the Supreme Court's ruling in Ring v
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The death sentences of 180 terrorist organization members,...
The death sentences of 180 terrorist organization members, who had been sentenced to death by Diyarbakir State Security Courts (DGMs), were commuted to life imprisonment
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in Mashhad, capital city of the northeastern...
A court in Mashhad, capital city of the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, sentenced 12 members of the 'Vultures' gang to death on various charges
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002DEATH PENALTY
MISS WORLD: A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRACY
November 23, 2002: The facts happened in Nigeria, that brought to the decision of moving the beauty contest of Miss World, show the convergence of two diametrically extreme stands.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of the death penalty...
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of the death penalty revealed that they would submit to next year's Diet a bill to set up an ad hoc commission to debate whether it should be abolished
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and also called for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and also called for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic of Iran in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that...
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume reversed the death penalty passed on two Russian citizens
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that...
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume reversed the death penalty passed on two Russian citizens
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Brian Rushambwa Sango, 27, was sentenced to death for...
Brian Rushambwa Sango, 27, was sentenced to death for murdering his friend's girlfriend, Rosemary Matsika, and her son Takudzwa
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed by group officials that the Japan Federation...
It was revealed by group officials that the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Japan's largest bar organization, had intentions of proposing a legal moratorium on executions, the first time it has explicitly adopted a position against the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a wave of student protests was the work of pro-US enemies of the Islamic state and warned they would be suppressed if necessary
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002DEATH PENALTY
MISS WORLD RIOTS LEAVE OVER 100 DEAD, HOC CALLS FOR EU BACKING TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
November 22, 2002: at least 105 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds wounded in rioting in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna triggered by Muslim fury over the holding of the Miss World pageant in Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting...
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting Muslim youths torched churches, looted shops and destroyed vehicles in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna amid rising Muslim fury over the country's staging of the Miss World pageant