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- AUGUST 5, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian carpenter escaped the gallows after the...
An Indonesian carpenter escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal set aside the ganja trafficking conviction
- AUGUST 5, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The European Commission asked Turkey to provide details...
The European Commission asked Turkey to provide details on a package of human rights reforms, including the abolition of the death penalty, seen as the country's first step towards starting membership talks with the European Union
- AUGUST 5, 2002FranceDEATH PENALTY
France hailed the ground-breaking reforms adopted by...
France hailed the ground-breaking reforms adopted by Turkey's parliament on August 3, including the abolition of the death penalty
- AUGUST 5, 2002AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev said that the decisions...
Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev said that the decisions of the Turkish parliament on the eve of the country's accession to the European Union [to abolish the death penalty, air TV programmes in Kurdish and others] were "very important"
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Acting Chairman...
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Acting Chairman Ismail Kose criticized MHP's partners in the government coalition who supported the approval of the EU bill abolishing the death penalty for terrorist crimes, and claimed that their purpose was to save
- AUGUST 5, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Athens praised as a positive step several high-profile...
Athens praised as a positive step several high-profile reforms approved by Turkey's national assembly on August 3, including the abolition of the death penalty in peacetime
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz during a meeting...
Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz during a meeting with the representatives of EU countries, said: "In a country that has suffered so much from terrorism and lost more than thirty thousand of its citizens to terror, at a time when separatist terrorism is
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish National Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu...
Turkish National Defence Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said the [negative] reaction of the relatives of the martyrs to the abolishment of death sentence was rightful
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey's passage of sweeping human rights reforms has...
Turkey's passage of sweeping human rights reforms has earned it the right to begin European Union membership talks, the country's top bureaucrat for EU affairs Volkan Vural said
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that the abolition...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that the abolition of the death penalty would not bring any changes to the imprisonment of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the terrorist organization, on Imrali Island, and he would continue to be held there for securit
- AUGUST 5, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Kurdistan Worker's Party supporters in Azerbaijan received...
Kurdistan Worker's Party supporters in Azerbaijan received the news of the commutation of [jailed leader] Abdullah Ocalan's death sentence with great joy, following the Turkish Parliament's vote to abolish the death sentence for terrorism, Azerbaijani new
- AUGUST 4, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the European Union (EU) to set a date for the start of accession talks after lawmakers adopted a package of democracy reforms demanded by the EU
- AUGUST 4, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh condemned five people to death...
A court in Bangladesh condemned five people to death and sentenced two others to life terms with rigorous imprisonment for a sensational murder case
- AUGUST 4, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling...
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling from Sichuan to Guangdong province looked on as a Chinese man raped three women five times during the three-day journey
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association,...
The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association, TUSIAD, welcomed the lifting of the death penalty
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Around 2,500 people will escape the death penalty after...
Around 2,500 people will escape the death penalty after parliament voted to abolish capital punishment from the [civil] code except in times of war or near war
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the European Union (EU) to set a date for the start of accession talks after lawmakers adopted a package of democracy reforms demanded by the EU
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
State Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist...
State Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli said, "those who criticized the MHP for not bringing the file of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of terrorist organization PKK, to the parliament in the past, have
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Terrorism Victims' Solidarity and Cooperation Association...
Terrorism Victims' Solidarity and Cooperation Association Chairman Mehmet Alptekin said that the association condemned those who had expended efforts for abolition of death penalty, and broadcasting and education in Kurdish under the European Union (EU) r
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Devlet Bahceli, deputy prime minister, said he would...
Devlet Bahceli, deputy prime minister, said he would appeal to Turkey's highest court over the reforms, which include lifting the death penalty in peacetime and easing curbs on Kurdish language education and broadcasting
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said, "annulment...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said, "annulment of death penalty, and broadcasting and education in mother tongue are the arrangements made with the aim of broadening freedoms
- AUGUST 3, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Emam Ali was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital...
Emam Ali was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital Tehran
- AUGUST 3, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption...
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption of the third European Union (EU) Reform Package by the Turkish Parliament as an important signal of the determination of the majority of Turkey's political leaders towards further alignment to the v
- AUGUST 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial...
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial gang-rape case told a court how she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint by four men whom she knew despite crying out for mercy
- AUGUST 3, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Pro-European politicians won a landmark victory in...
Pro-European politicians won a landmark victory in Turkey with the passage of legislative reforms that delighted human rights activists
- AUGUST 3, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption...
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption of the third European Union (EU) Reform Package by the Turkish Parliament as an important signal of the determination of the majority of Turkey's political leaders towards further alignment to the v
- AUGUST 2, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh...
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh Hai and Ta Kim Tien after convicting them of murder in the fatal shooting of one man during a gold store robbery
- AUGUST 2, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition of the death penalty, condemned plans by Barbados to amend its constitution in order to circumvent death penalty rulings by the British Privy Council, the highest court in the country