Chronological archive

May 2000

The 222 news items published by Hands Off Cain in May 2000, in chronological order.

222 news items

Most frequent countriesPakistan · 22 Saudi Arabia · 18 China · 10 Sierra Leone · 10 Iran · 8

DEATH PENALTYMAY 31, 2000 · United States

Under pressure from Washington to extradite Ira Einhorn,...

Under pressure from Washington to extradite Ira Einhorn, French legal authorities wanted to study the case more before deciding whether to propose that the Prime Minister sign the final extradition order

MAY 31, 2000France
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The French cabinet approved a draft law for extraditing...
The French cabinet approved a draft law for extraditing criminals to the United States
MAY 31, 2000Belgium
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Demir Sabanci, son of the assassinated Turkish industrialist...
Demir Sabanci, son of the assassinated Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci, was thinking of filing a lawsuit against the Belgium government in the European Court of Human Rights
MAY 31, 2000Jordan
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Muhammad Jaghamin was hanged at dawn in the Swaqa prison...
Muhammad Jaghamin was hanged at dawn in the Swaqa prison after a 10-month trial at the State Security Court
MAY 31, 2000Iran
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Mohammad Sorour Al Kouze'i, a 40-year old Afghan, was...
Mohammad Sorour Al Kouze'i, a 40-year old Afghan, was executed on the Garmseer bridge in public in the town of Taft
MAY 31, 2000Türkiye
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The Izmir State Security court handed down the death...
The Izmir State Security court handed down the death penalty on six of the 22 alleged members of the far-left urban guerrilla group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-The indictment said they shot the soldiers in fighting with security forces in 1998
MAY 31, 2000
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Robert Carter, 34, black, was put to death by lethal...
Robert Carter, 34, black, was put to death by lethal injection
MAY 30, 2000China
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Wang Zhiliang, the principal culprit of an extraordinary...
Wang Zhiliang, the principal culprit of an extraordinary tax evasion case causing economic losses of over 20m yuan to the State, was executed in Huludao, Liaoning
MAY 30, 2000China
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A corrupt official, Yang Shuhua, was executed in Hebei...
A corrupt official, Yang Shuhua, was executed in Hebei Renqiu City
MAY 30, 2000China
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Five men convicted on various counts of kidnapping,...
Five men convicted on various counts of kidnapping, raping and robbing children were executed, in various places across China, on the eve of Children's Day
MAY 30, 2000Albania
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The new CE Special Representative to Albania, Jorgen...
The new CE Special Representative to Albania, Jorgen Grunnet, said that the abolition of the death sentence in Albania was de facto in force, although not yet ratified by the Albanian Parliament
MAY 30, 2000Nigeria
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Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian in Jeddah for smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian in Jeddah for smuggling an unspecified quantity of cocaine into the kingdom
MAY 30, 2000South Africa
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On May 30, 2000, Parliament ratified the African Charter...
On May 30, 2000, Parliament ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
MAY 30, 2000South Africa
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The New National Party (NNP) leader, Marthinus van...
The New National Party (NNP) leader, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, stated that "A crackdown on rapists and child abusers in South Africa is long overdue
MAY 30, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Al-Haji Bin-Staro Bin-Adimola Bin-Yusuf, a Nigerian,...
Al-Haji Bin-Staro Bin-Adimola Bin-Yusuf, a Nigerian, was executed in Mecca after being convicted of smuggling heroin
MAY 30, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Manuel Bruna Ronilion Peridon, a Filipino, was executed...
Manuel Bruna Ronilion Peridon, a Filipino, was executed in Mecca after being convicted of attempting to murder a Saudi national in the governorate of Jiddah (forse è lo stesso della notizia sopra)
MAY 30, 2000Saudi Arabia
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A Filipino man was sentenced to death and executed...
A Filipino man was sentenced to death and executed for stabbing and seriously wounding a taxi driver outside the Red Sea port city of Jeddah
MAY 30, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, a Pakistani, was beheaded...
Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, a Pakistani, was beheaded in Riyad after being convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia
MAY 30, 2000Philippines
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A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia...
A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia for attempted murder
MAY 30, 2000Pakistan
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An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara has imposed death sentence on one and gave life imprisonment to two others
MAY 30, 2000Pakistan
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A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat...
A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat Jail, while the hanging of his accomplicewas deferred for a month
MAY 30, 2000Pakistan
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Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, for smuggling heroin into the kingdom
MAY 30, 2000Türkiye
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Belgium's refusal to extradite Fehriye Erdal [charged...
Belgium's refusal to extradite Fehriye Erdal [charged with murdering a Turkish businessman] to Turkey rekindled the debate over the death penalty
MAY 30, 2000Italy
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Italy's main aims as term president of the Council...
Italy's main aims as term president of the Council of Europe would be to strive for a "Europe free of the death penalty" and to promote human rights, the Italian Foreign Secretary Umberto Ranieri said
MAY 29, 2000France
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45% of the respondents in a poll conducted among 1,000...
45% of the respondents in a poll conducted among 1,000 people over 18 and representing all walks of life, said that France should re-establish the death penalty to fight crime
MAY 29, 2000Austria
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The chairman-in-office at the OSCE, Austrian foreign...
The chairman-in-office at the OSCE, Austrian foreign minister Benita Ferrero-Waldne was received by the President of Turkmenistan Saparmyrat Turkmenbashy
MAY 29, 2000Turkmenistan
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The chairman-in-office of the Organisation for Security...
The chairman-in-office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, highly assessed the acts of humanization of Turkmen society and noted the wide international response following the
MAY 29, 2000Pakistan
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Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his...
Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his sister-in-law Sameena
MAY 29, 2000Pakistan
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Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmed gave the death sentence to Abid Manzoor for murdering Doctor Shamsuzaman
MAY 28, 2000Thailand
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A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim...
A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim women, was pushing the government to get tough with sex criminals
MAY 28, 2000Sierra Leone
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A 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Kawuta said...
A 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Kawuta said he had witnessed dismemberment, torture and summary executions

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MAY 28, 2000Sierra Leone
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Mohamed Bangura, a former leader of the Sierra Leone...
Mohamed Bangura, a former leader of the Sierra Leone rebel government who fled to Britain, appealed to Jack Straw, the British Home Secretary, not to deport him
MAY 28, 2000Yemen
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Hundreds of students from Sanaa University demonstrated...
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University demonstrated in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, demanding the execution of Mohammad Adam Omar, 45, a Sudanese morgue worker being tried on charges of raping and killing 16 women, including at least six university st
MAY 28, 2000Sudan
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Hundreds of students from Sanaa University (the scene...
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University (the scene of the murders) demonstrated in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, demanding the execution of Mohammad Adam Omar
MAY 27, 2000China
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Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of...
Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of China branch in the city of Shaoguan, was executed for the white-collar crime of diverting funds (1
MAY 27, 2000Albania
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Sole Tura, a member of the Monitoring Commission of...
Sole Tura, a member of the Monitoring Commission of the Council of Europe on a visit to Albania, said that many changes have taken place in Albania since his last visit
MAY 27, 2000Lebanon
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The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members...
The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members of the disintegrated Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia who surrendered during the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon
MAY 27, 2000Türkiye
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Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said Belgium's decision...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said Belgium's decision not to extradite Fehriye Erdal that "shows that Turkey has to discuss its punishment system, including the death penalty, calmly"
MAY 27, 2000California
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Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic archbishop...
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, has urged California Gov
MAY 26, 2000Romania
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Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his...
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Geremek, that Poland assume the judicial retrial of Ilie Ilascu, who is detained in a Tiraspol prison
MAY 26, 2000Bulgaria
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The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in Parliament that...
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in Parliament that the permission given by the Libyan authorities for a Bulgarian lawyer to take part in the defence in the case against the six detained Bulgarian medics in Tripoli, had no precedents and was made possi
MAY 26, 2000China
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The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu Guangming, the manager of the Liancheng Aluminum Lianhai Integrated Development Company, to death
MAY 26, 2000China
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Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying,...
Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying, an unemployed woman, and Hu Jiama, a farmer, were sentenced to death for tricking 57 women between 1993 and 1998 with promises of work or travel to go to other parts of the mainland, where they were
MAY 26, 2000Japan
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The Kumamoto District Court sentenced Yoshiaki Nishimura...
The Kumamoto District Court sentenced Yoshiaki Nishimura ,45, to death for killing the wife of a doctor and stealing 2 million yen in cash and a deposit book from her house in Kumamoto in November 1997
MAY 26, 2000Egypt
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An Egyptian driver was executed in Saudi Arabia for...
An Egyptian driver was executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing to death his Saudi employer and cutting up the corpse
MAY 26, 2000Sierra Leone
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The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)...
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) said there was evidence that human rights abuses had been committed by both rebels and government forces in the latest round of fighting in the war that began in 1991
MAY 26, 2000Albania
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The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle...
The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle speaking at a meeting with the delegation of the CE's Monitoring Commission said that the removal of the capital punishment constituted an obligation towards the Council of Europe
MAY 26, 2000Belgium
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal to Turkey, overruling the Supreme Court's decision
MAY 26, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi...
Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi Bin-Khudayr were executed in Medina after having been found guilty of consuming alcohol, then breaking into a house and raping a woman
MAY 26, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was...
Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was executed in Hafr al-Batin, after having been found guilty of smuggling hashish into Saudi Arabia
MAY 26, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed...
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed and crucified after being found guilty of murdering his Saudi employer, Yusuf Bin-Ahmad Bin-Shahhat Bin-Muhammad Zaghbi
MAY 26, 2000Lebanon
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Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands of people at a victory rally in Bint Jbeil town
MAY 26, 2000Türkiye
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Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal, one of the suspects of the assassinated Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci, to Turkey, overruling a Supreme Court decision
MAY 25, 2000Tajikistan
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A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by...
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff
MAY 25, 2000Russia
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Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested...
Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested a Tajik citizen (Akram Yusupov), 36, who had been hiding for over a year from Tajik law-enforcement bodies that had put him on the international wanted list
MAY 25, 2000Rwanda
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Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
MAY 25, 2000Rwanda
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Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
MAY 25, 2000Serbia
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The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj,...
The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, a hardline nationalist, said: "Anyone carrying out terrorist actions and killing our citizens upon an American order should face death penalty as well as those who are kidnapping our people
MAY 25, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded...
Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded in Al-Ta'if, after the Grand Shari'ah Court found him guilty of "raping and causing the death of an Indonesian maid
MAY 25, 2000Oklahoma
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Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
MAY 25, 2000Texas
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James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection

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MAY 24, 2000Russia
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Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State...
Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State Duma lower house of parliament to ratify Protocol 6 of the European Convention abolishing the death penalty
MAY 24, 2000Indonesia
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A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law...
A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law enforcers to sentence the rapist of her 16-month-old daughter to death
MAY 24, 2000Brunei
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Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some...
Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some heated debate on the death penalty
MAY 24, 2000Eswatini
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Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation...
Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation of Swaziland (HUMARAS), said that the Swaziland government still retains the death penalty in its statutes, a situation that is out of step with its neighbours and in defiance of condemnation from h
MAY 24, 2000Philippines
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Justice Secretary Artemio G
Justice Secretary Artemio G
MAY 24, 2000Lebanon
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Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between...
Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between Lebanon and Israel
MAY 24, 2000Texas
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Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal...
Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal injection
MAY 23, 2000Bangladesh
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The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha...
The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad organized a rally to demand immediate implementation of the verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case
MAY 23, 2000China
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Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law...
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law committee of the city of Pingdingshan, central China, and assassins Liu Guoxing, and Yi Zhihong were given the death sentence for his involvement in a hired-killing and bribery scheme by the Intermedia
MAY 23, 2000Chile
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After a group calling itself the Group of Families...
After a group calling itself the Group of Families of Raped and Murdered Children rejected a government proposal to eliminate the death penalty, President Ricardo Lagos said he favoured holding a national referendum to decide whether or not the death pena
MAY 23, 2000Rwanda
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Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First...
Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First Instance in Kigali Rural Prefecture
MAY 23, 2000Saudi Arabia
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An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and...
An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son was executed
MAY 23, 2000Philippines
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Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that would commute a death sentence to life imprisonment if the guilty person agreed to donate an organ for transplant
MAY 23, 2000Pakistan
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Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at...
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at the Sahiwal Central Jail on June 6
MAY 23, 2000India
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Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son
MAY 23, 2000Iran
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Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of...
Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of hijacking a passenger plane to Iraq in 1993, was sentenced to death
MAY 23, 2000Texas
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James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal...
James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
MAY 23, 2000Italy
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The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo...
The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo Selva invited the Italian government to take a firm stand condemning China's attitude to the death penalty
MAY 22, 2000Solomon Islands
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Amnesty International urged the police service and...
Amnesty International urged the police service and the authorities to halt the spiral of violence and end the suffering and human rights abuses being committed by all parties in the conflict on Guadalcanal
MAY 22, 2000Sierra Leone
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Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to...
Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to face trial for murder and treason-two charges which carry the death penalty in Sierra Leone
MAY 22, 2000Sierra Leone
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Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty...
Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty International, said that Sankoh and other Sierra Leonean alleged war criminals should face trial
MAY 22, 2000Algeria
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Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at...
Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at Batna's Tazoult prison entered their second day of hunger strike to complain against detention conditions
MAY 22, 2000Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized...
Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized 38 kilograms (kg) of heroin, the largest ever haul in the country, considered a major transit point for international drug smugglers
MAY 22, 2000Singapore
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Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician,...
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician, failed to have his death sentence overturned by the Court of Appeal
MAY 22, 2000Eswatini
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"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment...
"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment fit the crime," said Justice Minister Maweni Simelane
MAY 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)
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Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority...
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority and co-director of the Earthrights International (ERI) documented hundreds of cases of rape, execution and confiscation of property carried out by the military, from 1995 to 2000, during the building o
MAY 21, 2000Romania
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The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and...
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and Moldovan parliaments signed a joint declaration in which the two countries requested a new trial of the Ilie Ilascu case
MAY 21, 2000Moldova
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The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments...
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments of Moldova and Romania signed a joint declaration in which the two countries expressed their bid to join the EU and request a new trial of the Ilascu case
MAY 21, 2000Palestinian Territories
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A Palestinian military court sentenced Kamal and Husam...
A Palestinian military court sentenced Kamal and Husam Hammad to death in absentia
MAY 20, 2000Syria
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The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing...
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing in Jordan illegally and seeking political asylum, said he faced the death penalty if he decided to return to Syria

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MAY 20, 2000Jordan
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The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing...
The Syrian journalist Faysal Sha'bu, who was residing in Jordan illegally and seeking political asylum, said he faced the death penalty if he decided to return to Syria
MAY 19, 2000China
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Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate...
Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate People's Court to pronounce their sentences, five convicted criminals were taken to the execution ground and executed by a firing squad
MAY 19, 2000Sierra Leone
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The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that Sankoh,...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that Sankoh, who took up arms in 1991, should not be subjected to "mob rule" and that any trial should be fair, and preferably before an international tribunal
MAY 19, 2000Fiji
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Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes...
Fiji abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1979; the last execution was carried out in 1964
MAY 19, 2000Fiji
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A coup was staged by George Speight, a mixed race businessman,...
A coup was staged by George Speight, a mixed race businessman, and eight members of the army's Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit (CRWU), who stormed the Fijian Parliament and captured Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, holding him and about 30 other membe
MAY 19, 2000Rwanda
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74 people accused of genocide and crimes against humanity...
74 people accused of genocide and crimes against humanity in Commune Gashora were tried in Kiglai Rural Prefecture
MAY 19, 2000United Arab Emirates
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The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence against...
The Appeals Court upheld the death sentence against a [unidentified] policeman who murdered his two uncles after discovering his brother had secretly married his cousin
MAY 19, 2000Pakistan
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Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and...
Mazhar Shah was condemned to death by a District and Sessions court in Lala Musa, for gunning down Latif Shah, son of a religious scholar Syed Yaqoob Shah
MAY 19, 2000United States
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New Hampshire to abolish the death penalty
New Hampshire to abolish the death penalty
MAY 19, 2000
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A bill to abolish the death penalty
A bill to abolish the death penalty
MAY 18, 2000Indonesia
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Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers...
Indonesia's first human-rights trial convicted 24 soldiers and a civilian yesterday of murdering dozens of villagers during a massacre in Aceh's civil war last year
MAY 18, 2000France
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Three French former prime ministers accused Teheran...
Three French former prime ministers accused Teheran of rigging the trial of the 13 Iranian Jews
MAY 18, 2000Sierra Leone
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Human Rights Watch expressed concern about credible...
Human Rights Watch expressed concern about credible reports that government-allied forces in Sierra Leone were torturing and executing suspected members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group responsible for brutal abuses against civilians
MAY 18, 2000Sierra Leone
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On a local radio chat show callers vented their anger...
On a local radio chat show callers vented their anger at the man whose brutal rebel movement had caused so much misery and suffering
MAY 18, 2000Armenia
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Ruben Torosyan, the chairman of the Social Democratic...
Ruben Torosyan, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Armenia Human Rights, said that the relevant structures of the CE were postponing the discussion of Armenian membership
MAY 18, 2000Latvia
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The Saeima passed amendments to the Criminal Law that...
The Saeima passed amendments to the Criminal Law that stipulate that murder under unmitigated circumstances during wartime is punishable by death
MAY 18, 2000Philippines
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Paranaque Representative Roilo S
Paranaque Representative Roilo S
MAY 18, 2000Pakistan
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Ahmad Yara was given a death sentence by the District...
Ahmad Yara was given a death sentence by the District and Session court in Jhang for killing [a person identified only as] Noora for disclosing his guilt of theft
MAY 18, 2000Pakistan
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A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court gave death...
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court gave death sentences to Mohammad Ali, Bashir and Abdur Rasheed for killing four people in Pattoki over an old enmity in 1996
MAY 18, 2000Pakistan
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Pakistan military ruler General Pervez Musharraf bowed...
Pakistan military ruler General Pervez Musharraf bowed to pressure from religious groups by withdrawing a move to tighten procedures for police registration of blasphemy complaints
MAY 18, 2000Myanmar (Burma)
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Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member...
Myanmar's military rulers sentenced Saw Tin Oo, a member of the Kayin ethnic armed group, known as "God's Army," to death for "high treason" following an embassy seizure in Bangkok in October 1999
MAY 17, 2000Iraq
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Iraqi authorities executed Shaykh Ali al-Ka'bi, imam...
Iraqi authorities executed Shaykh Ali al-Ka'bi, imam of the Al-Muhsin Mosque in Al-Thawrah (Saddam) City at the Directorate-General of Security in Baghdad
MAY 17, 2000Sierra Leone
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The International Secretariat of OMCT(?) expressed...
The International Secretariat of OMCT(?) expressed concern over the deterioration of the security situation in Sierra Leone and the continuing violation of human rights and humanitarian law by armed parties, particularly against civilians - mostly women a
MAY 17, 2000Sierra Leone
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Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United...
Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), was captured by pro-government forces
MAY 17, 2000Russia
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Sergey Lavrov, Russia's representative to the United...
Sergey Lavrov, Russia's representative to the United Nations, expressed concern about the execution of prisoners of war and civilians in Afghanistan
MAY 17, 2000Algeria
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Portugal's Supreme Court delayed ruling on an appeal...
Portugal's Supreme Court delayed ruling on an appeal against extradition filed by Algerian national Sid Ahmed Rezala, aged 20, accused of killing three women in France, two of them onboard trains
MAY 17, 2000Guyana
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Roman Catholic bishops from the Caribbean said they...
Roman Catholic bishops from the Caribbean said they want the death penalty to be abolished despite strong support for the measure in some countries
MAY 17, 2000Afghanistan
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Russia's representative to the United Nations Sergey...
Russia's representative to the United Nations Sergey Lavrov expressed concern about the execution of prisoners of war and civilians in Afghanistan
MAY 17, 2000Pakistan
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The Additional District and Sessions court in Gujranwala...
The Additional District and Sessions court in Gujranwala sentenced to death a convict [identified only as] Nadeem for shooting dead Muhammad Alam Butt
MAY 17, 2000Pakistan
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Sher Ali was condemned to death twice for the murder...
Sher Ali was condemned to death twice for the murder of his maternal grandfather and aunt

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MAY 17, 2000Germany
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Feleknas Uca, the German Democratic Socialist Party...
Feleknas Uca, the German Democratic Socialist Party (PDS) deputy congratulated President Sezer on his election in a written statement
MAY 17, 2000Kenya
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An elite Kenyan police squad set up to fight violent...
An elite Kenyan police squad set up to fight violent crime was disbanded after its officers were implicated in car theft, robbery, torture and execution
MAY 16, 2000Estonia
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A survey organised by the Estonian Church Council,...
A survey organised by the Estonian Church Council, Estonian Gospel Alliance and Estonian Bible Society and handled by letter among 1,700 respondents, showed that 57 percent of the respondents in a poll on religious attitudes said they favoured capital pun
MAY 16, 2000Yemen
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The US government requested the execution of Mohammed...
The US government requested the execution of Mohammed Rashed Dawood Al-Awli, a Yemeni man who was accused of involvement in blasting the two US embassy buildings in East Africa in August 1999
MAY 16, 2000Malaysia
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Muhammad Safarudin Baba, 21, and Mohd Ashraf Endut,...
Muhammad Safarudin Baba, 21, and Mohd Ashraf Endut, 20 were sentenced to death by the High Court for trafficking in 1,031
MAY 16, 2000Uzbekistan
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A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced to death two residents...
A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced to death two residents of eastern Namangan Region identified as Dilmurod and Ilhom Ergashev for the murder of a mini bus driver Yusuf Suyarqulov
MAY 16, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Mengistab Abrahah Ould Girel and Kidani Balabi Dasta,...
Mengistab Abrahah Ould Girel and Kidani Balabi Dasta, both Eritreans, were executed in Al-Ta'if, after being convicted of killing their host by stabbing him to death with a knife several times and seizing his money
MAY 16, 2000Pakistan
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Judge Chudhry Munammad Akram of the Special Anti Terrorist...
Judge Chudhry Munammad Akram of the Special Anti Terrorist Courtin Faisalabad sentenced to death Zulfiqar and Muhammad Sidique
MAY 16, 2000Pakistan
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Saleem Sultan was condemned to capital punishment by...
Saleem Sultan was condemned to capital punishment by the Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering Muhammad Ijaz over a minor dispute at a race course on April 17, 1995
MAY 16, 2000Eritrea
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Two Eritreans were executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing...
Two Eritreans were executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing to death a man who had accompanied them when they entered the kingdom illegally
MAY 16, 2000Lebanon
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Malek Hussein al-Ahmadieh received a Military Court...
Malek Hussein al-Ahmadieh received a Military Court death sentence for murdering his sister
MAY 16, 2000Türkiye
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Walter Schwimmer, the Secretary General of the Council...
Walter Schwimmer, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE) said that CE welcomed election of Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the 10th President of Turkey
MAY 15, 2000Bangladesh
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Judge Mohammad Aftabuddin meted out the death sentence...
Judge Mohammad Aftabuddin meted out the death sentence toEnayet Hossain Injufor beating to death Matin Sheikh of Bhattopratim village in Sadar upazila on February 4, 1996
MAY 15, 2000Gambia
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President Jammeh's government took a pro Nigerian stance...
President Jammeh's government took a pro Nigerian stance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
MAY 15, 2000Sudan
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Muhammad Al-Barqawi, a Sudanese who was found guilty...
Muhammad Al-Barqawi, a Sudanese who was found guilty of committing sodomy and other crimes, was executed in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
MAY 15, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Isa Khan Sa'idallah, a Pakistani national, was executed...
Isa Khan Sa'idallah, a Pakistani national, was executed in Riyad after he was convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia
MAY 15, 2000Philippines
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Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign...
Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to look into the cases of three female Filipino workers facing execution overseas, for offences committed in their host countries
MAY 15, 2000Pakistan
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A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore meted out...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court in Lahore meted out the death penalty to [men identified only as] Shahid alias Shada, Akram and Ijaz in a dacoity cum rape case
MAY 15, 2000Pakistan
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A Pakistani national was executed in Riyad, the Saudi...
A Pakistani national was executed in Riyad, the Saudi Interior Ministry said
MAY 14, 2000Texas
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Some members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles...
Some members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles have expressed doubts about Gov
MAY 14, 2000Bangladesh
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The District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Anwarul Huq...
The District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Anwarul Huq condemned 12 people to death, and four others to rigorous imprisonment for life for the murder of eight people in a dispute over a six decimal piece of land in the Jorakhali village of Matlab thana in 1
MAY 14, 2000Russia
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Chechen Interior Minister Aydamir Abalayev reported...
Chechen Interior Minister Aydamir Abalayev reported the shooting of 11 hostages in the Russian PAP 5 concentration camp situated in the city of Dzhokhar [Groznyy]
MAY 14, 2000Afghanistan
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The Taleban Minister of Information and Culture Mowlawi...
The Taleban Minister of Information and Culture Mowlawi Qudratollah Jamal, denied the opposition allegations regarding the killing of a number of opposition prisoners
MAY 14, 2000Lebanon
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South Lebanese Army (SLA) leader General Antoine Lahad...
South Lebanese Army (SLA) leader General Antoine Lahad called on Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to issue a blanket amnesty for all SLA militiamen and whoever else the Beirut government might consider a collaborator with Israel
MAY 14, 2000
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Some members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles...
Some members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles have expressed doubts about Gov
MAY 13, 2000Nigeria
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Seven Nigerians were executed and three had limbs amputated...
Seven Nigerians were executed and three had limbs amputated in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted of bank robbery and assault
MAY 13, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Seven Nigerians convicted of holding up a bank in Jeddah...
Seven Nigerians convicted of holding up a bank in Jeddah were executed
MAY 12, 2000Colombia
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The Colombian United Self-Defence Groups (AUC) assumed...
The Colombian United Self-Defence Groups (AUC) assumed responsibility for the massacre that occurred early on May 11 in the corregimiento of Zabaletas and other villages in the municipality of Buenaventura, in which 12 people were murdered, including two
MAY 12, 2000Rwanda
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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Carla Del Ponte, emphasised that there was no hope of ever transferring detainees from Arusha to Rwanda since the country still used the death penalty to prisoners
MAY 12, 2000Russia
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Since the fall of the capital Grozny, in February,...
Since the fall of the capital Grozny, in February, the Chechen forces have staged a series of ambushes against Russian units

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MAY 12, 2000Belgium
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Flanders Liberal Party deputy Hugo Coveliers said that...
Flanders Liberal Party deputy Hugo Coveliers said that Fehriye Erdal, 23, a woman wanted for the alleged killing of businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in 1996, should be extradited to Turkey
MAY 12, 2000Czechia
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Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague...
Czech anarchists were to hold demonstrations in Prague and in the Moravian capital Brno to protest against the planned execution in the US of African-American activist and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted of murdering a police officer
MAY 12, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Hanifah Bin-Hamzah Bubakudi, an Indian national, was...
Hanifah Bin-Hamzah Bubakudi, an Indian national, was executed in the Riyadh after being convicted of smuggling heroin into the country
MAY 12, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Mish'al Bin-Hamdan Bin-Hilal al-Harbi, convicted of...
Mish'al Bin-Hamdan Bin-Hilal al-Harbi, convicted of assaulting and raping a girl, was executed in Medina
MAY 12, 2000Afghanistan
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Abdul Rahim, a 22-year-old Syrian, said he was facing...
Abdul Rahim, a 22-year-old Syrian, said he was facing possible execution in Afghanistan for espionage
MAY 12, 2000Pakistan
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Ashraf Masih and Nazeer Masih were given capital punishment...
Ashraf Masih and Nazeer Masih were given capital punishment for a dacoity-cum-double-murder case by a Special Judge Anti-Terrorist Court in Lahore
MAY 12, 2000India
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The Mumbai city civil and sessions court sentenced...
The Mumbai city civil and sessions court sentenced Shekhar Kadam and Subhash Bind to death for murder
MAY 12, 2000India
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Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling an unspecified quantity of heroin into the Kingdom, the Saudi Interior Ministry said
MAY 11, 2000United States
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno authorised federal...
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno authorised federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, one of the terrorists involved in the bombings of the U
MAY 11, 2000Tanzania
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno authorised federal...
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno authorised federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, one of the terrorists involved in the bombings of the U
MAY 11, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Falih Bin-Muslih Bin-Hujayj Al-Luhaybi was executed...
Falih Bin-Muslih Bin-Hujayj Al-Luhaybi was executed in Medina
MAY 11, 2000Afghanistan
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The Anti-Taleban North Alliance accused the Taleban...
The Anti-Taleban North Alliance accused the Taleban Islamic Movement of executing 198 supporters of the Alliance who had been captured during the conflict
MAY 11, 2000Texas
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Micheal McBride, 38, white, was executed by lethal injection
Micheal McBride, 38, white, was executed by lethal injection
MAY 11, 2000United States
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Death penalty supporters became members of the National...
Death penalty supporters became members of the National Committee to Prevent Wrongful Executions formed to address innocence and the death penalty
MAY 10, 2000China
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China's Supreme People's Court announced that Lin Laibao...
China's Supreme People's Court announced that Lin Laibao from Lufeng city in Guangdong Province; Bing Guigang and Xie Zhongying from Huishui County in Guizhou Province; and Liang Kunmin from Suiyang County in Guizhou Province, were guilty of trafficking i
MAY 10, 2000Egypt
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Egypt's top religious authority approved the death...
Egypt's top religious authority approved the death sentence for Shaaban Abdel-Ghani, 30
MAY 10, 2000Vatican City
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Pope John Paul sent a telegram of solidarity to Rwandan...
Pope John Paul sent a telegram of solidarity to Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, who was on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges
MAY 10, 2000Rwanda
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Pope John Paul sent a telegram of solidarity to Rwandan...
Pope John Paul sent a telegram of solidarity to Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, who was on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges
MAY 10, 2000Iran
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Hossein Habibpour, 23 and Davoud Zak, also known as...
Hossein Habibpour, 23 and Davoud Zak, also known as Kianoush, were hanged in Qasr prison, Tehran, on charges of murder
MAY 10, 2000Iran
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Mahmoud F
Mahmoud F
MAY 9, 2000Austria
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A 12-year-old boy was arrested for the rape of a girl...
A 12-year-old boy was arrested for the rape of a girl aged five, in Baden, 30 kilometres south of Vienna
MAY 9, 2000Afghanistan
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More than 90 non-Pashtu Afghans were shot dead by the...
More than 90 non-Pashtu Afghans were shot dead by the Taleban in a village near Aibak, in the Taleban-controlled Samangan province
MAY 9, 2000Pakistan
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Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced...
Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore sentenced Nasir Masih and Wilson Masih for murder
MAY 9, 2000Pakistan
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Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
Four persons were hung at the Gujrat District Jail
MAY 9, 2000Iran
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Four Iranians were sentenced to death in Kuwait for...
Four Iranians were sentenced to death in Kuwait for drug smuggling
MAY 9, 2000Kuwait
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Four Iranians were sentenced to death for drug smuggling
Four Iranians were sentenced to death for drug smuggling
MAY 9, 2000Texas
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Willam Kitchens, 37, white, was executed by lethal injection
Willam Kitchens, 37, white, was executed by lethal injection
MAY 8, 2000Nigeria
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Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col
Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col
MAY 8, 2000Pakistan
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Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah condemned [two men identified only as] Tariq and Nawaz to death for murdering Zahid Mehmood on September 24, 1995
MAY 8, 2000Jordan
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Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem...
Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem militant Osama bin Laden questioned the legality of the prosecution case and demanded the dismissal of charges of plotting terrorist attacks

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MAY 8, 2000Iran
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A woman by the name of Zeinab-ol Sadat, also known...
A woman by the name of Zeinab-ol Sadat, also known as Soudabeh, was handed two death sentences for killing a 70 year old man, to whom she was "temporarily wed" and his 12 year old grandson
MAY 8, 2000New Hampshire
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As the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted...
As the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-1 to recommend that the state's death penalty law be repealed, a new poll by Northeastern University found that 55% of New Hampshire residents support abolition of the state's death penalty, 35% oppo
MAY 7, 2000Bangladesh
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Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human...
Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human trafficking
MAY 7, 2000Brunei
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Wong Boon Hing, 26, a Malaysian cook, was charged with...
Wong Boon Hing, 26, a Malaysian cook, was charged with allegedly importing 1060
MAY 7, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly...
Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly beheaded for killing a fellow national
MAY 7, 2000Pakistan
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Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded...
Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for killing a fellow national
MAY 7, 2000India
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A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally...
A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally killing his sister-in-law and six-month-old nephew in 1994 on apprehending that his father was not going to not give him a share of the ancestral property
MAY 7, 2000Iran
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Mohammad-Reza and Mohammad-Bagher were sentenced to...
Mohammad-Reza and Mohammad-Bagher were sentenced to death, and 74 lashings, for murdering a man in the course of an armed robbery
MAY 6, 2000Russia
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Guerrillas pulled a Chechen village mayor suspect of...
Guerrillas pulled a Chechen village mayor suspect of "collaborate" out of his car and executed him summarily for working with the Russians
MAY 5, 2000Armenia
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Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission...
Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission for Human Rights and Legal Issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CE), speaking on the issue of Armenia's membership, said that the Commission was delighted, surprised and pleased
MAY 5, 2000India
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The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court...
The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court in New Delhi for annulling the death sentences passed on "three child murderers because they did not kill children for any of the usual horrible reasons, but to please the gods
MAY 5, 2000Italy
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Senate Vice-President Ersilia Salvato discussed the...
Senate Vice-President Ersilia Salvato discussed the role of European parliaments in urging a moratorium on executions with representatives of the Portuguese, Austrian, Spanish and Belgian parliaments
MAY 4, 2000Congo - Brazzaville
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The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended...
The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended death sentences to former prime minister of the Republic of Congo, Bernard Kolelas, and his cousin, former Interior Minister Philippe Bikikinta
MAY 4, 2000Bangladesh
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A High Court Division Bench overturned the death sentence...
A High Court Division Bench overturned the death sentence meted out to Babul Hossain and his mother Sufia Khatun by the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special Provisions) Court of Chandpur
MAY 4, 2000Bangladesh
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Rezaul Jalal, 40, was condemned to death
Rezaul Jalal, 40, was condemned to death
MAY 4, 2000Rwanda
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Four detainees accused of infiltration, murder and...
Four detainees accused of infiltration, murder and terrorism were sentenced to death by the Kigali Court of First Instance
MAY 4, 2000Philippines
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Amnesty International said that opposition groups and...
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and other vigilante groups in Mindanao were responsible for human rights abuses, including hostage-taking and killings
MAY 4, 2000Iran
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A man identified as Mohammad was sentenced to death...
A man identified as Mohammad was sentenced to death for killing his brother in law in Khavaran, near Tehran
MAY 4, 2000Texas
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Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal...
Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal injection
MAY 3, 2000Bangladesh
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Saiful Alam, of Chandrapara village in Barahatta upazila,...
Saiful Alam, of Chandrapara village in Barahatta upazila, was sentenced to death by District and Sessions Judge Ishtiaq Hossain for the murder of a college student, [identified only as] Manik, at the Mohonganj railway station on April 14, 1999
MAY 3, 2000Zambia
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Judge Cosmas Kabamba of the Ndola High Court sentenced...
Judge Cosmas Kabamba of the Ndola High Court sentenced to hang Mike Simbaya, an unemployed Kankoyo who allegedly brutally murdered his 12-year-old niece, Mercy Museya, between October 19 and 20 1997
MAY 3, 2000Sri Lanka
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels...
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels launched their biggest offensive in their more than two-decade-old bloody campaign for a separate Tamil homeland
MAY 3, 2000Brunei
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The High Court sentenced Othman bin Abdullah, a water...
The High Court sentenced Othman bin Abdullah, a water taxi operator, to death for drug trafficking
MAY 3, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded...
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded in Arar for murdering his wife
MAY 3, 2000Ukraine
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Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal...
Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal Bogdan Kozy, a Ukrainian who served in the German police while his native country was occupied by the Nazis in World War II
MAY 3, 2000India
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The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing...
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing to death four people for sacrificing three children at Newasa in 1992
MAY 3, 2000Vietnam
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Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to...
Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to stop contacts with Hanoi at the level of ministries and agencies
MAY 3, 2000Lebanon
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Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for...
Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for killing a man and his son in Metn in 1999
MAY 3, 2000Türkiye
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Libya arrested dozens of suspected Islamist opposition...
Libya arrested dozens of suspected Islamist opposition figures following deportations of dissidents to the north African country, the London-based Islamic Observation Centre said
MAY 2, 2000South Africa
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Themba Makwanyane and Mvuso Mchunu, who were sentenced...
Themba Makwanyane and Mvuso Mchunu, who were sentenced to death in 1992, had their penalties commuted to life imprisonment in the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein

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MAY 2, 2000Pakistan
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Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was...
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was hung at Gujrat District Jail
MAY 2, 2000Vietnam
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The Canadian government froze all ministerial ties...
The Canadian government froze all ministerial ties with Vietnam to protest against the execution of Canadian citizen Nguyen Thi Hiep on drug smuggling charges on April 24
MAY 2, 2000United States
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Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death...
Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death for smothering her two young children was executed in Arkansas
MAY 2, 2000Arkansas
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Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal...
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal injection
MAY 1, 2000China
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In May four convicted murderers, who conspired to kill...
In May four convicted murderers, who conspired to kill a prosecutor in retaliation for putting them in prison, were given death sentences by the Intermediate People's Court of Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province
MAY 1, 2000Central African Republic
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In May 2000 alone, a special anti-crime police squad...
In May 2000 alone, a special anti-crime police squad reportedly executed eight alleged armed robbery suspects without due process
MAY 1, 2000Burundi
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It was reported that there were 155 death row inmates...
It was reported that there were 155 death row inmates who had their appeals exhausted and who could be executed
MAY 1, 2000Saudi Arabia
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Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
MAY 1, 2000Türkiye
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The Court of Appeals sentenced to death two of the...
The Court of Appeals sentenced to death two of the three men accused of the Tuzla bombing incident in which five people were killed and 36 were injured
MAY 1, 2000Virginia
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In a editorial, L
In a editorial, L
MAY 1, 2000United States
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Felix Rohatyn, the U
Felix Rohatyn, the U

May 2000

Under pressure from Washington to extradite Ira Einhorn,...

The French cabinet approved a draft law for extraditing...

Demir Sabanci, son of the assassinated Turkish industrialist...

Muhammad Jaghamin was hanged at dawn in the Swaqa prison...

Mohammad Sorour Al Kouze'i, a 40-year old Afghan, was...

The Izmir State Security court handed down the death...

Robert Carter, 34, black, was put to death by lethal...

Wang Zhiliang, the principal culprit of an extraordinary...

A corrupt official, Yang Shuhua, was executed in Hebei...

Five men convicted on various counts of kidnapping,...

The new CE Special Representative to Albania, Jorgen...

Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian in Jeddah for smuggling...

On May 30, 2000, Parliament ratified the African Charter...

The New National Party (NNP) leader, Marthinus van...

Al-Haji Bin-Staro Bin-Adimola Bin-Yusuf, a Nigerian,...

Manuel Bruna Ronilion Peridon, a Filipino, was executed...

A Filipino man was sentenced to death and executed...

Zeinullah Khan Arjoun Khan, a Pakistani, was beheaded...

A Filipino man was executed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia...

An Additional District and Sessions court in Okara...

A convict soldier was hung to death at the Kot Lakhpat...

Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man, Zeinullah Khan...

Belgium's refusal to extradite Fehriye Erdal [charged...

Italy's main aims as term president of the Council...

45% of the respondents in a poll conducted among 1,000...

The chairman-in-office at the OSCE, Austrian foreign...

The chairman-in-office of the Organisation for Security...

Abdul Hameed was condemned to death for murdering his...

Additional District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar...

A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim...

A 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Kawuta said...

Mohamed Bangura, a former leader of the Sierra Leone...

Hundreds of students from Sanaa University demonstrated...

Hundreds of students from Sanaa University (the scene...

Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of...

Sole Tura, a member of the Monitoring Commission of...

The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members...

Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said Belgium's decision...

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic archbishop...

Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his...

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in Parliament that...

The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu...

Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying,...

The Kumamoto District Court sentenced Yoshiaki Nishimura...

An Egyptian driver was executed in Saudi Arabia for...

The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)...

The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle...

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...

Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi...

Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was...

Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed...

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands...

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...

A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by...

Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested...

Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...

Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...

The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj,...

Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded...

Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection

James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection

Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State...

A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law...

Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some...

Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation...

Justice Secretary Artemio G

Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between...

Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal...

The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha...

Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law...

After a group calling itself the Group of Families...

Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First...

An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and...

Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...

Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at...

Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing...

Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of...

James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal...

The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo...