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- OCTOBER 19, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Una lettera è stata inviata dal ministro belga della...
Una lettera è stata inviata dal ministro belga della Giustizia alla Corte di sicurezza dello stato ad Istanbul, con la quale si dice che Fehrije Erdal non sarebbe stata estradata in Turchia
- OCTOBER 19, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Belgian Justice Ministry sent a letter to Istanbul...
The Belgian Justice Ministry sent a letter to Istanbul State Security Court which said that Fehriye Erdal, one of the suspects of the Sabanci murder, would not be extradited to Turkey
- OCTOBER 18, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions condemned [a man...
An Additional District and Sessions condemned [a man identified only as] Khalid to death for gunning down [a man identified only as] Malook during a minor dispute in 1998
- OCTOBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In a report on rights violations by soldiers, the Army...
In a report on rights violations by soldiers, the Army said it had investigated 1,426 complaints and punished 124 soldiers posted in Kashmir and the Northeast over the past 11 years
- OCTOBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Describing a cold-blooded murder as the "rarest of...
Describing a cold-blooded murder as the "rarest of rare cases", a city court sentenced Ashok Kumar Pandey to death for killing his 22-year-old pregnant wife and 19-month-old daughter in New Delhi in September 1996
- OCTOBER 17, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Dian Guoyen a former deputy executive general manager...
Dian Guoyen a former deputy executive general manager of Sinopec Hubei Xinghua Co
- OCTOBER 17, 2000FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji's military said it was not ruling out the death...
Fiji's military said it was not ruling out the death penalty for soldiers found guilty of treason because of their involvement in the May 19 coup
- OCTOBER 17, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Iraq's Interior Minister Mohammed Zimam Abdul Razzaq...
Iraq's Interior Minister Mohammed Zimam Abdul Razzaq said that Iraq would not hand over to Saudi Arabia two Saudi men who hijacked a Saudi jetliner to Baghdad
- OCTOBER 17, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Akyn Birdal, the "Honourary Chairman" of the Human...
Akyn Birdal, the "Honourary Chairman" of the Human Rights Association (IHD) held a press briefing together with the Joint Parliamentary Commission Co-Chairman Daniel Cohn Bendit and IHD Chairman Husnu Ondul in the European Parliament building, in which he
- OCTOBER 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Central Commission of Political Science and Law...
The Central Commission of Political Science and Law of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] Central Committee announced that from early September to October 15, the political science and law departments nationwide pronounced judgment on 158,500 criminal and
- OCTOBER 16, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court sentenced two men to death and another...
A Vietnamese court sentenced two men to death and another to life imprisonment for counterfeiting Vietnamese banknotes
- OCTOBER 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In the build-up to the publication of the Accession...
In the build-up to the publication of the Accession Partnership for Turkey the European Union indicated that the removal of the death penalty from the statute books would not be a precondition for the opening of full membership talks with Turkey
- OCTOBER 16, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military...
A U.N. human rights report described Myanmar's military government as a Junta that marks itself with torture, rape, summary executions, anti-intellectualism and a general suffocating grip on all parts of society
- OCTOBER 16, 2000North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The City Council of Greensboro, by an 8-1 vote, passed...
The City Council of Greensboro, by an 8-1 vote, passed a resolution urging a moratorium on executions in the state, whose death row is the fifth largest in the nation
- OCTOBER 16, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
The most comprehensive study ever done on the death...
The most comprehensive study ever done on the death penalty in Texas was released by the Texas Defender Service
- OCTOBER 15, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Britain claimed it would attempt to stop Antigua executing...
Britain claimed it would attempt to stop Antigua executing Steadroy McDougal
- OCTOBER 15, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old...
Mohammad Lak, convicted of kidnapping a three-year-old Afghan girl in 1999 and Abbas Qomi, convicted of abducting infant girls were publicly executed by hanging at Qom, south of the capital
- OCTOBER 14, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The UN's human rights special rapporteur for Iraq,...
The UN's human rights special rapporteur for Iraq, Andreas Mavrommatis, reported that on May 22 he had asked for "clarification and details" to the Iraqi government of allegations that 122 men had been executed between February 3 and March 9 of this year
- OCTOBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Zhuzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Zhuzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Guiju (female), Li Xiaojun, Li Qiugao and Luo Yongguo to death
- OCTOBER 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Turk, responding to a question about...
Justice Minister Turk, responding to a question about capital punishment , said that in the Justice Commission's draft a new article replaced Article 312
- OCTOBER 12, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The ABA held a conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta...
The ABA held a conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta to again urge attorneys, judges, and policymakers to support a moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 11, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Noboru Nakamura,...
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Noboru Nakamura, 33, a former AUM Shinrikyo member who allegedly took part in the 1994 nerve-gas attack
- OCTOBER 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 11, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Commenting on the rejection of the Italian candidature...
Commenting on the rejection of the Italian candidature for one of the two non-permanent seats assigned to Eurpoe by the U
- OCTOBER 10, 2000Antigua & BarbudaDEATH PENALTY
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing...
Steadroy McDougal, 32, was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend Louise Torrens, a 24-year-old woman from Stirlingshire, at Christmas 1998 and Mitchell Melius, a companion of Torrens from nearby St Lucia
- OCTOBER 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a...
An Anti Terrorist Court in Bahawalpur handed down a death sentence to Muhammad Habib for raping two women at gunpoint
- OCTOBER 10, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Bobby Lee Ramdass, 28, white, was put to death by lethal...
Bobby Lee Ramdass, 28, white, was put to death by lethal injection in Greenville Correctional Center
- OCTOBER 9, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Hatem Ali was sentenced to death in absentia for stabbing...
Hatem Ali was sentenced to death in absentia for stabbing to death, in 1997, a woman who had turned down his proposal of marriage
- OCTOBER 9, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
President Robert Mugabe launched a crackdown on the...
President Robert Mugabe launched a crackdown on the opposition
- OCTOBER 7, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian...
A Libyan court postponed the trial of the six Bulgarian medics to November 4, 2000