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
- APRIL 17, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On April 17, South Africa's President-in-waiting Thabo...
On April 17, South Africa's President-in-waiting Thabo Mbeki rejected a return to the death penalty, despite a string of brutal crimes
- APRIL 16, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate...
On April 16, Beirut Chief Investigating Magistrate Said Mirza demanded the death sentence for a woman, Fawz Hajj Hussein Ellao, her sons Abbas and Ellao, and two other men, Imad Matar and Youssef Mohammed, for allegedly murdering a 5-year-old girl, Zeinab
- APRIL 16, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba,...
On April 16, Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba, a former attorney general, said that the death penalty was not supposed to apply to persons who defile girls over 13, and accused those who drafted the amended Penal Code of making the death penalty a
- APRIL 15, 1999LatviaDEATH PENALTY
On April 15, Parliament (64-15) voted to abolish the...
On April 15, Parliament (64-15) voted to abolish the death penalty
- APRIL 15, 1999AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
On April 15, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected President...
On April 15, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected President of Algeria
- APRIL 14, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in...
On April 14, 58 political detainees were executed in the notorious Abu Ghurayb prison, said the Iraqi Communist Party's Human Rights Center in another statement faxed to Reuters in Cairo on 20 July
- APRIL 14, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, intellectuals, students and journalists...
On April 14, intellectuals, students and journalists in a meeting convened at Pethiagachi condemned the rape of a teenage girl at Bokaro and demanded that a special court be set up to try the criminals who perpetrated the heinous crime
- APRIL 14, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, the Indonesian Government and the House...
On April 14, the Indonesian Government and the House of Representatives agreed to discard the draconian 1963 subversion law and put crimes against the state in the country's Criminal Code
- APRIL 14, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in...
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in public in northern Iran, in Babol, a town bordering the Caspian Sea
- APRIL 14, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Vice-president of the African Christian...
On April 14, Vice-president of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) Louis Green said that the fight for the return of capital punishment and the abolition of legalized abortion will be the central pillars of the election campaign
- APRIL 13, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, Soud bin Khalif bin Salim from Al Kamil...
On April 13, Soud bin Khalif bin Salim from Al Kamil Wa'al Wafi in the Sharqiyah Region was sentenced to death for murdering 65-year-old Habiba bint Nasser bin Mohammed and her brother Ali bin Nasser bin Mohammed
- APRIL 13, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, another Saudi man was beheaded in Mecca...
On April 13, another Saudi man was beheaded in Mecca for stabbing to death a fellow citizen
- APRIL 13, 1999MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, Malaysia's highest court upheld the death...
On April 13, Malaysia's highest court upheld the death sentence on a witch doctor Maznah Ismail, better known by her alias Mona Fandey, and on her husband and their assistant
- APRIL 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On April 13, 11 people were publicly executed in Mbuji-Mayi,...
On April 13, 11 people were publicly executed in Mbuji-Mayi, the diamond-rich capital of the Oriental Kasai Province
- APRIL 12, 1999United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
On April 12, Home Secretary Jack Straw said that the...
On April 12, Home Secretary Jack Straw said that the conviction of Derek Bentley, who was found guilty of murder and hanged in 1953, was overturned on the basis of mistakes by the trial judge and for this reason his case fell outside the compensation sche
- APRIL 12, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
On April 12, the Hanoi People's Court gave a death...
On April 12, the Hanoi People's Court gave a death sentence to Vu Thi Duyen, 20, after concluding that she had killed Huong, her 4-year-old stepdaughter
- APRIL 12, 1999EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
On April 12, King Mswati III ruled out the abolition...
On April 12, King Mswati III ruled out the abolition of the death sentence in Swaziland saying the threat that necessitated capital punishment in the country still existed and although no hangings had taken place in the country in the past 18 years, the s
- APRIL 11, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 11, Hassan Manahi al-Qahtani was executed...
On April 11, Hassan Manahi al-Qahtani was executed in Riyadh, after being found guilty of shooting a fellow tribeswoman Najaa Aloush al-Qahtani
- APRIL 10, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 10, Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for...
On April 10, Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for shooting and killing a Saudi woman, in the capital Riyadh
- APRIL 10, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 10, a German citizen Helmut Hofer, a 57-year-old...
On April 10, a German citizen Helmut Hofer, a 57-year-old businessman, was released on bail from an Iranian prison
- APRIL 9, 1999GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
On April 9, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said that...
On April 9, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said that now the way is clear for the country to carry out capital punishment because it is no longer part of the UN Human Rights Committee
- APRIL 8, 1999PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
On April 8, a Filipino Norly Abordo was condemned to...
On April 8, a Filipino Norly Abordo was condemned to death in Saudi Arabia for killing a Thai co-worker
- APRIL 8, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 8, Filipino Norly Abordo was condemned to...
On April 8, Filipino Norly Abordo was condemned to death for killing a Thai co-worker
- APRIL 7, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On April 7, Chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Council...
On April 7, Chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Council (Parliament), Oleksandr Tkachenko, spoke in favor of the unconditional execution of the death sentence for serial murderer Onopriyenko
- APRIL 7, 1999IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 7, Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare...
On April 7, Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Haryono said on the occasion of the 21st meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials on Drug Matters that ASEAN members must unite to eradicate the circulation of, and trade in, any types of narcotics
- APRIL 6, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On April 6, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate announced...
On April 6, the Iraqi Public Security Directorate announced that 4 men were executed for the killing of Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, a prominent Shiite Muslim spiritual leader and his sons Mustafa and Mua'mal in the holy city of Najaf last February
- APRIL 6, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 6, Chen Mengxing, a farmer from China's northern...
On April 6, Chen Mengxing, a farmer from China's northern Hebei province was sentenced to death for stealing and accidentally shattering Beijing's oldest Buddha statue
- APRIL 5, 1999NevadaDEATH PENALTY
On April 5, Nevada executed Alvaro Calambro, 25, a...
On April 5, Nevada executed Alvaro Calambro, 25, a Filipino man convicted of killing two U-Haul employees with a hammer and crowbar during a 1994 robbery
- APRIL 4, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 4, Radical Sikh organizations, reactivated...
On April 4, Radical Sikh organizations, reactivated ever since the Badal-Tohra spilled out in the open, demanded that the 1,000-odd Sikh Tada detainees jailed in the Punjab and elsewhere be released in view of the Khalsa tercentenary celebration
- APRIL 4, 1999CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
On April 4, at a news conference at the offices of...
On April 4, at a news conference at the offices of the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Cardinal Roger M