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- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's...
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's Courts pronounced death sentences on seven drug traffickers including Zhuang Yuntong, Zhao Peiqing, Ma Zuoqing, Yuan Yuehong, female and Xinjiang female vagrant A-Yi-Gu-Li Yu-Su-Fu
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing to try Wu Man, 40, and reiterated that the Chinese mainland has the right to arrest and interrogate him
- JUNE 25, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village...
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village in Sonandanga upazila, was condemned to death for strangling his wife Rahima and daughter Reshma to death, on September 5, 1997
- JUNE 25, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial
- JUNE 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a...
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a united action, ordered the executions of 154 drug traffickers and smugglers
- JUNE 24, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban...
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban condemned Gary Graham's execution in Texas as a racist "crime" and cited the execution as an example of why Elian Gonzalez (a Cuban boat boy who had been retained in the United States by his relatives
- JUNE 24, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party...
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party organised a demonstration against the legalisation of drugs
- JUNE 24, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the...
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the release of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed...
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed on Soussan Hajirian, 42, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband after he beat the couple's children
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting...
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting 13 girls (aged 4 to 9) over a period of 7 years (1989-1996), was hanged in Ghasr prison, Tehran
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Ming and ten others (unnamed) to death; Liu Gang and seven others were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province,...
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province, were executed in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong province
- JUNE 23, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Gary Graham was executed by the state of Texas, despite...
Gary Graham was executed by the state of Texas, despite claims that he was innocent
- JUNE 23, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
- JUNE 23, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said the French consul in Houston, speaking for all 15 European Union states, had intervened several times on behalf of Gary Graham, who went to his death proclaiming his innocence after Texas Governor Georg
- JUNE 23, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Ministers adopted the draft-law "On...
The Council of Ministers adopted the draft-law "On some changes in the military penal code
- JUNE 23, 2000TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
United States prosecutors were given permission by the U
- JUNE 23, 2000North MacedoniaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International released a report stating that...
Amnesty International released a report stating that the Macedonian government should investigate serious human rights violations which occurred in Aracinovo earlier this year and ensure that they are never repeated
- JUNE 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for...
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for stabbing a fellow citizen to death after a dispute
- JUNE 23, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The federal government submitted a draft of a tough...
The federal government submitted a draft of a tough anti-terrorism law to Parliament
- JUNE 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
Shahid Saeed was condemned to death for murder
- JUNE 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials...
Amnesty International criticised the summary trials of more than 2,000 former South Lebanon Army militia members and those said to have "collaborated" with Israel as "travesties" of justice
- JUNE 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Asma Jahangir, the Commission's Special Rapporteur on summary or arbitrary executions, expressed deep regret over the execution of Gary Graham, a prisoner who had been convicted of a cri
- JUNE 23, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain launched the third Annual Report on...
Hands off Cain launched the third Annual Report on the death penalty situation in the world
- JUNE 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said the French consul in Houston, speaking for all 15 EU states, had intervened several times on behalf of Gary Graham, who went to his death proclaiming his innocence after Texas Governor George W
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced...
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced to death in Hangzhou for embezzling over 1m yuan of public money from a bank account
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced to death seven people with a period of reprieve or life imprisonment