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
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive...
A bill that sought to strengthen the government's drive against international and domestic terrorists was filed in the Senate
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned...
The Additional Sessions court in Khanewal condemned two brothers to death for murder
- OCTOBER 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional...
Shamsher Ali was given the death sentence by an Additional District and Session court for murdering Sajjad Hussain
- OCTOBER 2, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In his address to the parliament at the start of the...
In his address to the parliament at the start of the new legislative year President Ahmet Necdet Sezer urged that constitutional reforms be carried out in order to see the death penalty abolished
- OCTOBER 2, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Recai Kutan, the leader of the Virtue Party (FP) said...
Recai Kutan, the leader of the Virtue Party (FP) said in a press conference at FP Headquarters that Turkey needs to make a key decision on the abolition of the death penalty if it to enter the EU, stating "my personal tendency is the abolishment of capita
- OCTOBER 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 1, 2000DEATH PENALTY
After 17 years in prison, DNA tests confirmed Earl...
After 17 years in prison, DNA tests confirmed Earl Washington's innocence, and he was granted an absolute pardon by Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore for the 1982 rape and murder of a Culpeper County woman
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A session of the EU/China "dialogue on human rights"...
A session of the EU/China "dialogue on human rights" took place in Beijing
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Ghassan al-Atiyah and Mustafa al-Ani were sentenced...
Ghassan al-Atiyah and Mustafa al-Ani were sentenced to death in absentia on charges of "meeting Israelis" during a meeting that was held in Cairo in August to examine the prospects of the peace process
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Following an attack by the National Liberation Forces,...
Following an attack by the National Liberation Forces, a Hutu-armed opposition group, on a military post in the Kamenge area in northern Bujumbura, government soldiers of the Bataillon Para carried out reprisal killings in the Kamenge, Gasenyi, Gituro are
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Janjana Arana, an Indian, was executed in Al-Dawadimah...
Janjana Arana, an Indian, was executed in Al-Dawadimah in the Riyadh area after having been convicted of murdering Saudi national Salim Bin-Naffa Bin-Nuwayfi al-Mutayri
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi...
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi Arabia for murdering a Saudi man with a hatchet after a quarrel
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored...
Seven members of a "terrorist network" in Iran "sponsored by the Iraqi Baath party" were sentenced to death, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least 14 more criminals have been executed, in keeping...
At least 14 more criminals have been executed, in keeping with the mainland tradition of getting tough on crime before key holidays, like the National Day
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Takamatsu High Court made a rare decision to uphold...
The Takamatsu High Court made a rare decision to uphold a lower court ruling that sentenced 73-year-old Haruno Sakamoto to death for the murder of her husband and an employee of the bar she ran
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined...
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined key areas that the National Human Rights Commission needed to address, including a study of whether existing laws and government rules and regulations infringed on or contained elements which violate
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Uzbek Supreme Court in the capital Tashkent sentenced...
The Uzbek Supreme Court in the capital Tashkent sentenced one man to death and another 13 to prison terms of up to 24 years for their part in Islamic separatist fighting in November 1999 that claimed 11 lives
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of black protesters gathered at the court,...
Hundreds of black protesters gathered at the court, hoping to catch a glimpse of Pieter Odendaal, 44, a white South African accused of tying a black employee to the back of his pick-up truck and then dragging him five kilometres to his death
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court sentenced...
An Additional District and Sessions court sentenced Faqir Hussain to death for murder
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death three Pakistanis...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death three Pakistanis for drug smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court meted out...
An Additional District and Sessions court meted out the death sentence to Shahid alias Chitta for murder on October 7, 1999
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death a Kuwaiti national...
A Kuwaiti court sentenced to death a Kuwaiti national and three Pakistanis for drug smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Dulal Mia, 35, was sentenced to death by a special...
Dulal Mia, 35, was sentenced to death by a special court that deals with Woman and Child Repression after being found guilty of murdering his wife in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
S. Sivakumar, 27, V. Muruga, 24, S
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- SEPTEMBER 27, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Ricky McGinn, 43, white, was executed by lethal injection
Ricky McGinn, 43, white, was executed by lethal injection
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The High People's Court of east China's Jiangsu Province...
The High People's Court of east China's Jiangsu Province rejected the appeals of four Chinese men found guilty of the murder of a German Daimler-Benz AG executive, his wife and their two children at their villa in Nanjing on April 1, 2000
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
A draft European Union charter of fundamental rights,...
A draft European Union charter of fundamental rights, which some politicians believe could one day form the basis of a European constitution, rules out extraditing someone to a state where there is a "serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,...
The President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, criticised the death penalty by declaring that it be "abolished once and for all in all countries appartaining to the Council of Europe", that is to say even those countries where the death penalty is f
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing City No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Beijing City No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced prostitute Hu Kaiying, 20, to death suspended for two years
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2000SloveniaDEATH PENALTY
The Koper District Court rejected Turkey's request...
The Koper District Court rejected Turkey's request for the extradition of Naci Muzaffer Oeztuerk, a 42-year old Swiss citizen of Turkish origin who had been jailed in Koper since July 17, 2000