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- MAY 26, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)...
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) said there was evidence that human rights abuses had been committed by both rebels and government forces in the latest round of fighting in the war that began in 1991
- MAY 26, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle...
The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle speaking at a meeting with the delegation of the CE's Monitoring Commission said that the removal of the capital punishment constituted an obligation towards the Council of Europe
- MAY 26, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal to Turkey, overruling the Supreme Court's decision
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi...
Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi Bin-Khudayr were executed in Medina after having been found guilty of consuming alcohol, then breaking into a house and raping a woman
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was...
Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was executed in Hafr al-Batin, after having been found guilty of smuggling hashish into Saudi Arabia
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed...
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed and crucified after being found guilty of murdering his Saudi employer, Yusuf Bin-Ahmad Bin-Shahhat Bin-Muhammad Zaghbi
- MAY 26, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands of people at a victory rally in Bint Jbeil town
- MAY 26, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal, one of the suspects of the assassinated Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci, to Turkey, overruling a Supreme Court decision
- MAY 25, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by...
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff
- MAY 25, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested...
Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested a Tajik citizen (Akram Yusupov), 36, who had been hiding for over a year from Tajik law-enforcement bodies that had put him on the international wanted list
- MAY 25, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
- MAY 25, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
- MAY 25, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj,...
The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, a hardline nationalist, said: "Anyone carrying out terrorist actions and killing our citizens upon an American order should face death penalty as well as those who are kidnapping our people
- MAY 25, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded...
Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded in Al-Ta'if, after the Grand Shari'ah Court found him guilty of "raping and causing the death of an Indonesian maid
- MAY 25, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 25, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 24, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State...
Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State Duma lower house of parliament to ratify Protocol 6 of the European Convention abolishing the death penalty
- MAY 24, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law...
A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law enforcers to sentence the rapist of her 16-month-old daughter to death
- MAY 24, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some...
Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some heated debate on the death penalty
- MAY 24, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation...
Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation of Swaziland (HUMARAS), said that the Swaziland government still retains the death penalty in its statutes, a situation that is out of step with its neighbours and in defiance of condemnation from h
- MAY 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice Secretary Artemio G
Justice Secretary Artemio G
- MAY 24, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between...
Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between Lebanon and Israel
- MAY 24, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal...
Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- MAY 23, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha...
The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad organized a rally to demand immediate implementation of the verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case
- MAY 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law...
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law committee of the city of Pingdingshan, central China, and assassins Liu Guoxing, and Yi Zhihong were given the death sentence for his involvement in a hired-killing and bribery scheme by the Intermedia
- MAY 23, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
After a group calling itself the Group of Families...
After a group calling itself the Group of Families of Raped and Murdered Children rejected a government proposal to eliminate the death penalty, President Ricardo Lagos said he favoured holding a national referendum to decide whether or not the death pena
- MAY 23, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First...
Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First Instance in Kigali Rural Prefecture
- MAY 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and...
An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son was executed
- MAY 23, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that would commute a death sentence to life imprisonment if the guilty person agreed to donate an organ for transplant
- MAY 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at...
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at the Sahiwal Central Jail on June 6