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- DECEMBER 10, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The State Duma (lower house) will consider a bill for...
The State Duma (lower house) will consider a bill for the abolition of capital punishment in Russia in January 2002, legislation committee chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov said
- DECEMBER 10, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Justice Minister Yuri Chaika ruled out the...
Russian Justice Minister Yuri Chaika ruled out the death sentence for Salman Raduyev, who is currently facing terrorism charges in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala
- DECEMBER 10, 2001DEATH PENALTY
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
December 10, 2001: Hands Off Cain has called on Italian online newspapers to mark the International Human Rights Day by hosting HOC’s online appeal for a worldwide moratorium on executions through a UN resolution.
- DECEMBER 10, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Punishment is on the public's agenda when it comes...
Punishment is on the public's agenda when it comes to John Walker, with most Americans favouring criminal charges against the U
- DECEMBER 9, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Inkatha Freedom Party called on government to bring...
The Inkatha Freedom Party called on government to bring back the death penalty following the death of one of its Soweto branch leaders over the weekend
- DECEMBER 9, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if...
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if he was captured alive in Afghanistan, Downing Street revealed
- DECEMBER 9, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
In a contribution to the Washington Post, Emanuel Gross,...
In a contribution to the Washington Post, Emanuel Gross, a professor of law at Haifa University since 1992, who served in the Israel Defence Forces for 25 years, first as a soldier and later as a judge at military tribunals, said capital punishment was no
- DECEMBER 9, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if...
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if he was captured alive in Afghanistan, Downing Street revealed
- DECEMBER 9, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In August 2000, 300 members of a central government...
In August 2000, 300 members of a central government investigative team - known as Taskforce 807 - descended on Shantou in an effort to eradicate widespread VAT-rebate fraud
- DECEMBER 9, 2001AustriaDEATH PENALTY
A former Iraqi ambassador accused of embezzlement is...
A former Iraqi ambassador accused of embezzlement is in hiding in Austria to avoid a possible death penalty at home, according to the magazine Profil
- DECEMBER 9, 2001New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
Angry members of the Mt Wellington-Panmure RSA want...
Angry members of the Mt Wellington-Panmure RSA want murderers to face the death penalty, after three of their friends were killed in their clubhouse
- DECEMBER 9, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
A former Iraqi ambassador accused of embezzlement is...
A former Iraqi ambassador accused of embezzlement is in hiding in Austria to avoid a possible death penalty at home, according to the magazine Profil
- DECEMBER 9, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Safiya Hussaini said of the death sentence hanging...
Safiya Hussaini said of the death sentence hanging over her: 'I felt sick when the judge passed down the sentence because of the injustice of it all
- DECEMBER 9, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially...
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially inseminated before her husband's execution is forcing the justice system to clarify what it means to "strip a prisoner of his political and individual rights"
- DECEMBER 9, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially...
The wife of a convicted killer who wants to be artificially inseminated before her husband's execution is forcing the justice system to clarify what it means to "strip a prisoner of his political and individual rights"
- DECEMBER 9, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if...
Osama bin Laden would be handed to the Americans if he was captured alive in Afghanistan, Downing Street revealed
- DECEMBER 8, 2001MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
A leading human rights group said human rights suffered...
A leading human rights group said human rights suffered a setback in Morocco this year and demanded an independent inquiry into the disappearance of political opponents in the 1960s and 1970s
- DECEMBER 8, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
In Sudan an eighteen-year-old girl, Abok Alfa Akok,...
In Sudan an eighteen-year-old girl, Abok Alfa Akok, was condemned to death by stoning for adultery by the Nyala Criminal Court in southern Darfur
- DECEMBER 7, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Nine men who lived in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan...
Nine men who lived in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have been convicted at the Old Bailey [London's main criminal court] of hijacking a jet and flying it to Stansted airport
- DECEMBER 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union allocated 840,000 euros in support...
The European Union allocated 840,000 euros in support of small-scale human rights projects in China
- DECEMBER 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hua Ruizhuo, who murdered 14 women, was sentenced to...
Hua Ruizhuo, who murdered 14 women, was sentenced to death by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing
- DECEMBER 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Nine men who lived in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan...
Nine men who lived in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have been convicted at the Old Bailey [London's main criminal court] of hijacking a jet and flying it to Stansted airport
- DECEMBER 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The head of Amnesty International sees "positive trends"...
The head of Amnesty International sees "positive trends" in Lebanon's human rights record over the past decade, but remains concerned over the number of arbitrary arrests
- DECEMBER 7, 2001Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Speaking on the severity of punishment as a supposed...
Speaking on the severity of punishment as a supposed deterrence to crime, Auxiliary Bishop of Mt Hagen Bishop Douglas Young said it was the certainty of punishment that deterred crime-the knowledge that the criminal, high or low, rich or poor, powerful or
- DECEMBER 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The head of Amnesty International sees "positive trends"...
The head of Amnesty International sees "positive trends" in Lebanon's human rights record over the past decade, but remains concerned over the number of arbitrary arrests
- DECEMBER 6, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) 2001...
The Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) 2001 report praised a move by the armed forces to reduce the number of crimes that bore a mandatory death sentence
- DECEMBER 6, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Sahib Al-Mosawi, 53, an Iraqi national who stabbed...
Sahib Al-Mosawi, 53, an Iraqi national who stabbed his wife Inaam Al-Nashi and her uncle Mohammad Al-Nashi to death on Nov
- DECEMBER 6, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
The Paris city council named U
The Paris city council named U
- DECEMBER 6, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Uzbekistan will work to extradite opposition member...
Uzbekistan will work to extradite opposition member Muhammad Salih, President Islam Karimov told the press
- DECEMBER 6, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe Human Rights Representative Alvaro...
The Council of Europe Human Rights Representative Alvaro Gil-Robles said that the Council of Europe was aware of the fact that a very important period started in Turkey