Archive timeline
1999
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 1999, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 1999
- SEPTEMBER 14, 1999GermanyDEATH PENALTY
On September 14, Germany said it would sue the United...
On September 14, Germany said it would sue the United States in the World Court in The Hague for violating international laws and treaties by executing the LaGrand brothers
- SEPTEMBER 14, 1999ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 14, Human Rights Commission (HRC) Chairperson...
On September 14, Human Rights Commission (HRC) Chairperson Judge Lombe Chibesakunda said the trend internationally was to move towards the development of a principle of law that prohibits the imposition of capital punishment no matter what crime is involv
- SEPTEMBER 13, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On September 13, the Government disclosed that a 10-year-old...
On September 13, the Government disclosed that a 10-year-old boy was the youngest of 12 children under 14 who are accused of rape
- SEPTEMBER 13, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 13, 3 men, Fayez bin Ali bin Fahd Al Beeshi,...
On September 13, 3 men, Fayez bin Ali bin Fahd Al Beeshi, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al Amri and Abdullah bin Mashabab bin Abdullah Al Shihri, all Saudis, were executed for beating and repeatedly sodomizing a person at gunpoint
- SEPTEMBER 13, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On September 13, Military Tribunal Judge Rashid Mezher...
On September 13, Military Tribunal Judge Rashid Mezher asked that Army First Adj
- SEPTEMBER 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On September 11, an Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced...
On September 11, an Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced 4 people to death and more could face the death penalty for pro-democracy protests in July
- SEPTEMBER 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate...
On September 11, the weekly Jebheh said it would donate 100 million rials ($57,000) for the "revolutionary execution" of Hossein Baqerzadeh, a London-based human rights activist, if any ranking cleric issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning him to
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999CyprusDEATH PENALTY
On September 10, Cyprus acceded to the Second Optional...
On September 10, Cyprus acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
In September, 10 drug traffickers were sentenced to...
In September, 10 drug traffickers were sentenced to various jail terms
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
On September 10, State Minister Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik...
On September 10, State Minister Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik met with IHD Chairman Hunsu Ondul and IHD Board of Directors member Osman Baydemir to discuss Turkey's drive to improve its human rights record
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999JapanDEATH PENALTY
On September 10, 3 death row inmates: Masashi Sato,...
On September 10, 3 death row inmates: Masashi Sato, 62; Katsutoshi Takada, 61; and Tetsuyuki Morikawa, 69, were hanged
- SEPTEMBER 10, 1999KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
On September 10, the Atana City Court passed the death...
On September 10, the Atana City Court passed the death penalty on Martynov and Melnikov
- SEPTEMBER 8, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 8, mass public executions were carried...
On September 8, mass public executions were carried out in Maliana, East Timor
- SEPTEMBER 8, 1999ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 8, Father Patrick Simutowe, a Catholic...
On September 8, Father Patrick Simutowe, a Catholic priest in Mpika, said that the Prisons Service was not reforming inmates but destroying them
- SEPTEMBER 8, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On September 8, the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's...
On September 8, the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's Court gave its final judgment on the case of the wounding of the leading cadres of Jiangxi's Anyi County which shocked the whole country
- SEPTEMBER 4, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 4, Safra Onaibi Slami, a Nigerian woman...
On September 4, Safra Onaibi Slami, a Nigerian woman convicted of drug trafficking, was beheaded in Jeddah
- SEPTEMBER 4, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 4, the chief of the National Police narcotics...
On September 4, the chief of the National Police narcotics division, Col
- SEPTEMBER 4, 1999NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
On September 4, Safra Onaibi Slami, a Nigerian woman...
On September 4, Safra Onaibi Slami, a Nigerian woman convicted of drug trafficking, was beheaded in Jeddah
- SEPTEMBER 2, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On September 2, Abdullah bin Ahmad al-Badawi was executed...
On September 2, Abdullah bin Ahmad al-Badawi was executed in the southern province of Aseer for killing another man after a dispute
- SEPTEMBER 2, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On September 2, a court in Guangzhou sentenced one...
On September 2, a court in Guangzhou sentenced one man to death and another to life imprisonment for forcing 5 women into prostitution
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
In September, 5 men were executed under a wall, another...
In September, 5 men were executed under a wall, another was hanged on a crane and his body was exposed
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In September, the Supreme Court refused to commute...
In September, the Supreme Court refused to commute the death sentence to a life term for Dharmendra and Narendra, who brutally murdered 5 members of a family, including 3 children on the night between May 26-27, 1994
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In September, it seems that the clemency requests made...
In September, it seems that the clemency requests made by Ayodya Prasad Chauboy of India, Saelon Prasad and Namsong Sirilok from Thailand, and Thom Tuck Yen from Malaysia were rejected
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Also in September, Maj
Also in September, Maj
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In September, a court ordered the reformist Iranian...
In September, a court ordered the reformist Iranian newspaper Neshat to stop publishing because it had run articles seen as questioning a central principle of Islamic justice and challenging the authority of Iran's supreme clerical leader and, in particul
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Abdel Raouf al-Rawabdeh,...
The Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Abdel Raouf al-Rawabdeh, during a closed-door meeting at the end of September, approved a recommendation by the Justice Ministry to abolish Art
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
In September, some 100 lawmakers from the ruling and...
In September, some 100 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties including Lee Kun-kae of the United Liberal Democrats (ULD) were moving to pass a bill which allows the death penalty against those who make or distribute disqualified food, thus clai
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
In September, the southern Khatlon Regional Court sentenced...
In September, the southern Khatlon Regional Court sentenced to death Fayzidin Bobokhonov, a 29-year-old resident of Yovon District
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999BoliviaDEATH PENALTY
During a Congressional debate held at the beginning...
During a Congressional debate held at the beginning of September, a bill to reinstate the death penalty was rejected by a majority of parliamentarians
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Noel Thomas and Abdool Saleem Yassin convicted of killing...
Noel Thomas and Abdool Saleem Yassin convicted of killing Yassin's younger brother Abdool Kaleem Yassin in March 1987 in western Essequibo County, had death warrants read to them on September 7 and were scheduled to hang early on September 11, but a team