Archive timeline
2000
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2000, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2000
Bahrain executed Shi'ite activist Isa Ahmed Qambar...
Bahrain executed Shi'ite activist Isa Ahmed Qambar for killing a policeman, the first such move against an anti-government protester since political unrest erupted in the Gulf Arab state in 1994
- DECEMBER 31, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Special Rapporteur has continued to follow the...
The Special Rapporteur has continued to follow the situation in Chechnya, where Russian government forces are reported to be committing grave human rights violations, including deliberate and targeted extrajudicial executions of unarmed civilians
- DECEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least 24 Uighur Muslims from the Xinjiang Uighur...
At least 24 Uighur Muslims from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region were executed in 2000 on charges of separatism
- DECEMBER 29, 2000KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Rep. Tom Burch (D-Louisville), who in 1974 voted to...
Rep. Tom Burch (D-Louisville), who in 1974 voted to reinstate the death penalty because he believed it was a deterrent, said he now intends to introduce legislation to abolish capital punishment in Kentucky. "I was just wrong," said Burch of his 1974 vote
- DECEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court upheld...
The Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court upheld a September 24 sentence to death handed out by the Intermediate People's Court of Shanwei City to seven principal members of a 12-men criminal ring, including Zhuo Zhenyuan
- DECEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhu Rongji, the Prime Minister, promised severe punishment...
Zhu Rongji, the Prime Minister, promised severe punishment for those responsible for the fire in a discotheque in the central Chinese city of Luoyang on Christmas night that killed 309 people
- DECEMBER 28, 2000LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
Two innocents men released from death row
Two innocents men released from death row
- DECEMBER 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China announced a new spate of high-level corruption...
China announced a new spate of high-level corruption cases as President Jiang Zemin warned the nation to prepare for a "long-term and arduous" struggle for clean government
- DECEMBER 26, 2000BahrainDEATH PENALTY
Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa issued a decree...
Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa issued a decree commuting to life terms the death sentences against Ali Ahmed al-Asfoor, Youssef Hassan Abdul-Baqi and Ahmed Khalil al-Kattab, three Bahraini Shi'ite Muslims for a 1996 arson attack in which seven Bang
- DECEMBER 25, 2000BahrainDEATH PENALTY
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman...
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman was sentenced to death by a Bahraini court in November after she was found guilty of killing her Filipino employer in 1998
- DECEMBER 25, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman...
Yeshiwork Desta Zewdu, a 20 years old Ethiopia woman was sentenced to death by a Bahraini court in November after she was found guilty of killing her Filipino employer in 1998
- DECEMBER 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Pakpattan Shahid...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Pakpattan Shahid Ahmad Roomi awarded the death sentence and a fine Rs
- DECEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhao Xujie, a former laundry company manager was executed...
Zhao Xujie, a former laundry company manager was executed in Shanghai for stabbing a bank guard to death during a robbery, on June 5
- DECEMBER 23, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmad said...
Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmad said that India and Saudi Arabia would sign an agreement for co-operation in combating drug trafficking during Indian Foreign Minister
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lin Zhiguo, former deputy director of the Siping City...
Lin Zhiguo, former deputy director of the Siping City Chemical Industry Bureau, was sentenced to death by the Jilin Provincial Higher People's Court for receiving bribes when he was manager of the Siping City Paint Plant
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Qiao Benping, deputy manager of a state-owned international...
Qiao Benping, deputy manager of a state-owned international trade company in Changchun City of northeast China's Jilin Province, was sentenced to death for embezzlement, misuse of funds and accepting bribes valued at 15
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yaping, head of a gang of robbers, who organised...
Li Yaping, head of a gang of robbers, who organised 45 robberies and thefts in several Beijing districts, was sentenced to death by the No
- DECEMBER 22, 2000Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch, has implicated the government of...
Human Rights Watch, has implicated the government of Cote d'Ivoire in the violence that claimed hundreds of lives during the 22 October presidential elections
- DECEMBER 22, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel...
A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Le Van Luen a former senior police officer, to death by firing squad for dealing in heroin, bringing the number of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2000 to at least 49
- DECEMBER 21, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Witnesses said to have seen members of a right-wing...
Witnesses said to have seen members of a right-wing paramilitary squad to kill 10 people
- DECEMBER 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yu Bufan, a state engineering company manager, was...
Yu Bufan, a state engineering company manager, was sentenced to death by the Xiamen Intermediate Court for taking bribes worth 2
- DECEMBER 21, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The criminal board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced...
The criminal board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Abdurahim Naimov to death and his accomplice, Ubaydullo Rajabov, to 15 years imprisonment with confiscation of his property
- DECEMBER 21, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused the Sri Lankan navy of...
Amnesty International accused the Sri Lankan navy of extrajudicial killings of civilians in the country's east
- DECEMBER 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the death sentence...
The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the death sentence of Surendra Singh Rautela alias Bengali
- DECEMBER 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 52 Indians were awarded the death penalty...
A total of 52 Indians were awarded the death penalty in different countries during the last three years, Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs Ajit Kumar Panja informed Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament)
- DECEMBER 21, 2000DEATH PENALTY
2nd WORLD DAY FOR THE MORATORIUM ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ROME, 21ST DECEMBER, 2000TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY.MAIN HALL OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS
- DECEMBER 20, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
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A thesis attached to the Korean version of the U
- DECEMBER 20, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a resolution...
The General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a resolution on Afghanistan
- DECEMBER 19, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
The Brazaville branch of the ruling Congolese Labour...
The Brazaville branch of the ruling Congolese Labour Party (PCT), opposed any form of amnesty to former President Pascal Lissouba and his last Prime Minister Bernard Kolelas who were sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 19, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
President Saddam Hussein ordered the execution of a...
President Saddam Hussein ordered the execution of a new group of senior Iraqi army officers from the city of Mosul