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
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in the Riyad Region, for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a large cleaver on his head and other parts of his body d
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh...
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, and an Indian, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, were executed for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed...
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and...
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in Riyad Region of Saudi Arabia for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a larger cleaver on his head and other parts o
- MAY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's...
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced 4 persons to death for murdering Li Xianying, the secretary of the Party Committee of Liaoning's Fushun County
- MAY 13, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan...
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan sentenced to death 2 gang leaders, Yusufali Salohov and M
- MAY 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh,...
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh, 18 years, was hanged from a crane in public in Bandar Abbas, accused of being a sympathizer of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- MAY 13, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the...
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the same crime for which he had been condemned to death in December 1998 and subsequently released in January 1999
- MAY 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being...
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being found guilty of several murders and given death sentences by the military tribunal
- MAY 12, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the...
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the director of Customs at the city of Zhanjiang, were executed in one of the biggest corruption cases
- MAY 12, 1999VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first...
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first clemency in a capital case after 21 executions to Calvin Swann
- MAY 11, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences...
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences for two Sri Lankans, Murugan, and T
- MAY 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement...
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement by 325 political and cultural figures, asking the President of Iran for "the public trial of those who have masterminded, organized, planned and perpetrated these horrendous crimes," referring to the m
- MAY 11, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines...
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines embassy announced that a Kuwaiti court had sentenced Danilo Espino, a Filipino Christian citizen, to death on May 10 for killing his Muslim girlfriend Rocaya S
- MAY 10, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of international affairs, Alfred Mubanda, received the Norwegian ambassador to Uganda, Arild Oyen, who expressed the same views on the execution of the 28 condemned prisoners as the other memb
- MAY 9, 1999LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice...
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice and Peace [CJP] director said the case of the 13 treason convicts is a test to national commitment to reconciliation and, recalling the execution of 13 former government officials in 1980, said histo
- MAY 8, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd...
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd al Fattah Mohammad al Kumi were executed in the prison of Tanta in Basse Egypt
- MAY 8, 1999FloridaDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the...
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the case of Keith Brennan that the execution of a defendant who was 16 years old at the time of his crime would be unconstitutional
- MAY 7, 1999CyprusDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf...
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf of Cyprus signed Protocol No
- MAY 7, 1999SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the...
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the ICTY by virtue of both his individual and superior criminal responsibility on one count of a violation of the laws or customs of war, and sentenced to 2 years' and 6 months' imprisonment by Trial Chamber
- MAY 7, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission...
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation" in Havana disclosed that the Cuban Government had executed 10 criminals by firing squad in the previous 3 months and has sentenced 5 more to death
- MAY 6, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 6, according to Rahe Kargar, the organization...
On May 6, according to Rahe Kargar, the organization of the revolutionary workers of Iran, 4 men were executed in Sanandaj for drug trafficking
- MAY 6, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for...
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for military offenses
- MAY 5, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On May 5, UK Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett...
On May 5, UK Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett during a visit to Jordan said that reports of recent executions and Shiite unrest were signs of President Saddam Hussein's weakening grip on power
- MAY 4, 1999CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
On May 4, California also executed Manuel Babbitt,...
On May 4, California also executed Manuel Babbitt, a former Marine who had been given one of the country's highest medals for bravery
- MAY 3, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 3, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said the...
On May 3, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said the Government should consider the death sentence for atrocities against women
- MAY 3, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 3, a Chinese court sentenced 2 people to death...
On May 3, a Chinese court sentenced 2 people to death in the southeastern province of Jiangsu for smuggling metal and evading duties totaling 130 million yuan ($16 million)
- MAY 1, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
In May, a court's military collegium ruled the death...
In May, a court's military collegium ruled the death penalty for police Colonel Asatullo Shomatov, deputy chief of Dushanbe's interior directorate
- MAY 1, 1999United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
In May, The UK ratified Protocol No
In May, The UK ratified Protocol No
