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- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular...
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association expressed their concern at the death sentence passed in Pakistan on Dr Younus Shaikh, lecturer, peace activist and founder of the progressive group Enligh
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China imposes the death penalty for hacking and other...
China imposes the death penalty for hacking and other cyber crimes
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A senior Taleban official has warned that foreign aid...
A senior Taleban official has warned that foreign aid workers on trial in Afghanistan on charges of preaching Christianity could be executed
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped...
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal allowed their appeals
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to...
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to death with a bayonet in August 2000 were sentenced to hang
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001North MacedoniaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch accused the overwhelmingly Slavic...
Human Rights Watch accused the overwhelmingly Slavic forces of Macedonia's government of summary execution of ethnic Albanian civilians, arson and torture, the New York Times said
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven...
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven years and this is indicative of a policy that is encouraging for the Bulgarian medics tried in Tripoli, National Assembly Chairman Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said in a meeting with the families of the medics
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven...
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven years and this is indicative of a policy that is encouraging for the Bulgarian medics tried in Tripoli, National Assembly Chairman Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said in a meeting with the families of the medics
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost...
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost and make Thailand's authorities vacate the death sentence to Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two senior executives of real estate companies were...
Two senior executives of real estate companies were each given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve and life imprisonment by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular...
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association expressed their concern at the death sentence passed in Pakistan on Dr Younus Shaikh, lecturer, peace activist and founder of the progressive group Enligh
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
In Ibb province, Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah executed in...
In Ibb province, Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah executed in Ibb province for murdering Muhammad Ali Ghaleb, Hassan Masad al-Mahmudi for killing Mukhtar Ali Abdul Hamid, and Abdullah Hezaa Auqlan for murdering Hezaa Auqlan Hassan (not clear whether Auqlan and Has
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was presented with an honorary...
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Law at the University of Wolverhampton for his 20-year campaign against the death penalty in the US
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tang Minh Phung and Pham Nhat Hong were sentenced to...
Tang Minh Phung and Pham Nhat Hong were sentenced to death for appropriating VND32 billion from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of Vietnam-HCMC branch
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said...
The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on...
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on the United States to follow the example of the African National Congress in South Africa, in getting the death penalty abolished
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four criminals were separately sentenced to death for...
Four criminals were separately sentenced to death for forcing women to engage in prostitution by a court in Minquan County of Shangqiu City, Henan Province
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said called...
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said called on the United States to follow the example of the African National Congress in South Africa, in getting the death penalty abolished
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001West VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
A once-respected crime lab chemist goes on trial in...
A once-respected crime lab chemist goes on trial in West Virginia for alleged fraud
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Tangerang district court in Indonesia was scheduled...
The Tangerang district court in Indonesia was scheduled to hand down the death penalty to African Namaona Denis, for whom the prosecutor had demanded life imprisonment on August 17, for smuggling 1 kilogram of heroin from Pakistan into the country in Apri
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling an unspecified amount of hashish into the kingdom
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Hai, Taliban's deputy minister for Promotion...
Abdul Hai, Taliban's deputy minister for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said that under Islamic laws, converts would be given three days to renounce Christianity and they could be spared the capital punishment if they repented
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling an unspecified amount of hashish into the kingdom
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chelyabinsk regional legislature submitted draft...
The Chelyabinsk regional legislature submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would make systematic use of narcotics a criminal offence
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001MaltaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of...
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of killing Briton Edgar Fernandes was extradited from Malta to Turkey
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of...
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of killing Briton Edgar Fernandes was extradited from Malta to Turkey
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of...
Mohamed Aly Abbas, a Turkish national suspected of killing Briton Edgar Fernandes was extradited from Malta to Turkey
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Freedom Front (FF) called for the reinstallation...
The Freedom Front (FF) called for the reinstallation of the death penalty, saying the killings of white farmers in SA are politically motivated and often triggered by irresponsible comments by politicians
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Dr. Shaikh Muhammed Younus's last hope of escaping...
Dr. Shaikh Muhammed Younus's last hope of escaping the gallows lies with his petition to a Pakistani high court. The medical professor, 45, was sentenced to death on August 19 on a charge of blasphemy