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- JUNE 19, 2000JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations met in Jamaica to discuss how to set up and pay for a proposed Caribbean court that would replace the British Privy Council as the region's final court of appeal
- JUNE 19, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia...
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia for pickpocketing
- JUNE 19, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected...
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected the application of Fehriye Erdal for political asylum
- JUNE 19, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran Audi, for murder
- JUNE 19, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for...
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for belonging to a group involved in banditry and the kidnapping of foreigners
- JUNE 19, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang,...
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang, East Jave, who killed her employer's wife in 1998 by beating her on the head with an iron pipe, was beheaded in al-Ihsa region
- JUNE 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore Zawar Ahmad meted out deathsentences to Muhammad Khan Chachar and Yousaf Bogio for firing on Imran Aziz, son of Supreme Court Judge Rashid Aziz Khan and murdering his assistant Ghulam Mustafa
- JUNE 19, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant...
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant wife on January 23, 2000 was sentenced to death
- JUNE 17, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from...
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from Tripoli with the pledge of a fair trial for the six Bulgarian medics implicated in the HIV infection scandal in Libya
- JUNE 17, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation...
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes (UDV) said in its report Performed Capital Punishments in Czechoslovakia in 1918-1989 that Czechoslovak courts sentenced to death 1,207 people between 1918 and 1989 when the capital punishment w
- JUNE 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias...
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias Shahjee and Zahid, were condemned to death for a double murder during a robbery by an additional district and session court in Faisalabad
- JUNE 17, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National...
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly [TBMM], said that abolishing the death penalty was not as easy as one might think at the moment
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhu Zexin, alias Zhang Xiong, to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced its judgment on the extraordinary case of mass murder in the coal pits in Yi County, Liaoning
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan,...
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan, sentenced six backbone members of a criminal gang, including Zhang Yi, to death
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 16, 2000Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 16, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors filed an appeal at the Tokyo High Court...
Prosecutors filed an appeal at the Tokyo High Court against the lower court's June 6 ruling sentencing former Aum Shinri Kyo member Yoshihiro Inoue to life in prison
- JUNE 16, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the UN,...
Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Ibrahim Kamara, said the court would probably combine elements of Sierra Leonean and international law, and might be based in another country in the region, such as Nigeria, Mali or Senegal
- JUNE 16, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about...
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about the acquittal but noted that thousands of other prisoners were still languishing in jails
- JUNE 16, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about...
In a statement, the Vatican said it was happy about the acquittal but noted that thousands of other prisoners were still languishing in jails
- JUNE 16, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
A Lebanese military court put 29 alleged followers...
A Lebanese military court put 29 alleged followers of Saudi-exile Osama bin Laden on trial on charges of planning attacks on U
- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani man was beheaded in Dammam after being found guilty of smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the country
- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed...
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed Riyadh after having been found guilty of murder
- JUNE 16, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Gholam Ghaws was executed in public at the sports stadium...
Gholam Ghaws was executed in public at the sports stadium of the Herat Province
- JUNE 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A Turkish court sentenced 33 Moslem activists to death...
A Turkish court sentenced 33 Moslem activists to death for their role in an Islamist riot in 1993 in which 37 people were killed
- JUNE 16, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by...
Aralbek Sherbotayev, 24, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Shymkent
- JUNE 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader...
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader Asker Zunong, Abduriyimu Maimaitiyimin, Adbunur Abulimuti, all ethnic Turkic Uighurs native to the region, accused of terrorist activities in the far northern Chinese region of Xinjiang were executed i
- JUNE 15, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop...
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Misago of genocide charges, ruling he played no part in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in 1994
- JUNE 15, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop...
A Rwandan court acquitted the Roman Catholic bishop Augustin Misago of genocide charges, ruling he played no part in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis in 1994