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- JANUARY 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Spokeswoman for the Worker-Communist Party of Iran...
Spokeswoman for the Worker-Communist Party of Iran Azam Kamguian criticised the Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Kamal Kharrazi's visit to England stating: "Kharrazi is representative of a regime whose record includes over 100,000 executions, torture, imprison
- JANUARY 11, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Several thousands of Kurds held a rally in downtown...
Several thousands of Kurds held a rally in downtown Yerevan in protest against the capital punishment passed on Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international...
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international community to come to the defence of the leader of the Kurdish liberation movement, Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Some 200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration...
Some 200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration to protest against the death sentence imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 10, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced...
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced Sammy Hachim and Khalil Algadba, two Lebanese men, to death for currency trafficking and spying for rebels holding the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 10, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution...
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution for making pornographic films in her home country, was denied refugee status in Australia
- JANUARY 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement...
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement in the 1999 student demonstrations, had their sentences approved by the Supreme Court
- JANUARY 10, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death...
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- JANUARY 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed...
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed that executed prisoners' organs were offered to Hong Kong patients at Guangdong's main transplant hospital for up to $300,000 each
- JANUARY 9, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its...
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its Chinese counterpart not to repatriate a group of seven North Koreans who had fled their hunger-stricken communist homeland
- JANUARY 9, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against...
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against the death penalty with its 2000 advertising campaign called "We, On Death Row
- JANUARY 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was...
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was his country's international obligation to wait for a European court ruling on the death sentence handed down on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and...
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that when the file of Abdullah Ocalan, the head terrorist, was taken to the parliament, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) would vote for execution of Ocalan
- JANUARY 7, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law...
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law firm, CMS McKenna, who led a team of British lawyers who acted for David Mitchell without charge, criticised the speed with which the Bahamian authorities had acted as a breach of international law
- JANUARY 7, 2000BermudaDEATH PENALTY
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing...
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing the death penalty and flogging in Bermuda
- JANUARY 7, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the...
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, were executed, a high-ranking official in the Uzbek Prosecutor-General's Office said
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister [and Nationalist Action Party...
Deputy Prime Minister [and Nationalist Action Party leader] Devlet Bahceli declared that those who wanted to dilute the decision passed down by the Turkish judiciary against Abdullah Ocalan on behalf of the Turkish nation should realise that their attitud
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan warned of "tragedies" if...
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan warned of "tragedies" if the Turkish authorities did not tackle the "essence" of the Kurdish problem
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Carrying out the death sentence passed on Kurdish rebel...
Carrying out the death sentence passed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan would simply enable him to do more damage to Turkey from beyond the grave, Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said
- JANUARY 7, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
David Ray Duren, 37, white, was put to death by electric...
David Ray Duren, 37, white, was put to death by electric chair in Holman Prison, Altmore
- JANUARY 7, 2000ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
A poll of Connecticut residents conducted by the Center...
A poll of Connecticut residents conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut found the following: 55% don't believe the death penalty is a deterrent to murder; nearly 40% believe a black or Hispanic defendant i
- JANUARY 7, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
The Portuguese Presidency of European Union renewed...
The Portuguese Presidency of European Union renewed a humanitarian appeal to Governor James Gilmore on behalf of Douglas C
- JANUARY 7, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched...
The Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched in New York the new Benetton (fashion wear) campaign for death penalty awareness
- JANUARY 6, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill...
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill prison in the capital Nassau
- JANUARY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four women with little education were convicted of...
Four women with little education were convicted of forming a "pyramid association" to collect money by fraud and illegally absorbing deposits from the public amounting to nearly 200m yuan
- JANUARY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Court sentenced Huang Guanguo, former manager of the Minhang District Commercial Buildings Development and Trading Company, and Li Min Tai concurrently vice-chairman of the board and general manager of the Shanghai Hous
- JANUARY 6, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi Communist Party sources reported that Ali Hasan...
Iraqi Communist Party sources reported that Ali Hasan al-Majid, the cousin of the dictator Saddam Hussein, gave orders to set up a special military court at the headquarters of the 4th Army Corps in Imarah
- JANUARY 6, 2000MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
The Moroccan Watchdog for Prisons (OMP) stated that...
The Moroccan Watchdog for Prisons (OMP) stated that Moroccan prisons are overpopulated, with malnutrition and inadequacy of medical care being the causes of infectious and mental diseases, as well as the rising number of suicides and deaths
- JANUARY 6, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential...
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential guarantee in accordance with a relevant decision by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court stating that the death penalty will no longer be carried out in Ukraine" will aid investigations into crimes imp
- JANUARY 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller said that...
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller said that the decision on the execution of terrorist ringleader Abdullah Ocalan must be brought before the Turkish Grand National Assembly [TGNA] without delay