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
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Omer Izgi, the acting Chairman of the Nationalist Action...
Omer Izgi, the acting Chairman of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) parliamentary group said that the MHP would not allow the abolition of the death penalty because of conditions in Turkey
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998...
Aung San Suu Kyi, special rapporteur to Burma in 1998 and head of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar's main opposition party, said that "extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the practice of torture and forced labour" are commonplace vio
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV...
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV News Carolinas Poll found: only 45% preferred the death penalty as the appropriate penalty for those convicted of murder; 62% said they favoured a moratorium of executions until it is determined th
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000DEATH PENALTY
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV...
A July poll of Carolinians by the Charlotte Observer-MBTV News Carolinas Poll found: only 45% preferred the death penalty as the appropriate penalty for those convicted of murder; 62% said they favoured a moratorium of executions until it is determined th
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni, MPs for the Democratic...
Fabrizio Vigni and Mauro Vannoni, MPs for the Democratic Left, together Parliamentary vice president Alfredo Biondi of Forza Italia, visited Rocco Barnabei in Virginia and pressured Governor Gilmore
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old...
The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for a 35-year-old man convicted of killing four people in four prefectures between 1984 and 1991
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Ugandan-backed...
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the leader of the Ugandan-backed Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC), accused government troops of executing 51 civilians in a northeastern town before rebel troops captured it last week
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International...
Bosnia signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Ankara State Security Court (DGM) No
Ankara State Security Court (DGM) No
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Seven PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] prisoners were...
Seven PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] prisoners were sentenced to death at a trial at the Erzurum DGM (State Security Court)
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
Fifty-one percent of the Venezuelans back the application...
Fifty-one percent of the Venezuelans back the application of death penalty in this country to reduce high crime rate, according to soundings by the Encuestadora Roxon polling firm
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000São Tomé & PríncipeDEATH PENALTY
Sao Tome signed the Convention Against Torture and...
Sao Tome signed the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the 1st Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000PolandDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that the US failed to inform Polish...
It was revealed that the US failed to inform Polish authorities of the arrest and trial of Grzegorz Madej, a Polish citizen in Illinois, on rape and murder charges in 1981 as required by the 1963 Vienna Convention and the US Polish 1972 Bilateral Conventi
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of the Supreme Court of Appeal Sami Selcuk...
The chairman of the Supreme Court of Appeal Sami Selcuk described the death penalty as "a primitive punishment" which "does not give the right to the convicted to return to the society again"
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The shari'ah court convicted Ali Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abdallah...
The shari'ah court convicted Ali Bin-Muhammad Bin-Abdallah al-Sharif of murdering another Saudi national, Muhammad Bin-Sultan Bin-Fayiz al-Buqmi and he was sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese and Taiwanese residents in Newcastle in northern...
Chinese and Taiwanese residents in Newcastle in northern KwaZulu-Natal took to the streets to protest against the murder of local Taiwanese businessman Shin-Chih Liao, who was shot dead at a factory in Field Street
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
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Carla del Ponte, Chief U
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Three gangsters of Dubai-based organisation were given...
Three gangsters of Dubai-based organisation were given capital punishment for a murderous attack on former city mayor Milind Vaidya in March 1999
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2000MalawiDEATH PENALTY
Chief Commissioner of Prisons Winston Manyela said...
Chief Commissioner of Prisons Winston Manyela said there are 11 prisoners on the death row, while 41 prisoners previously sentenced to death had their sentences substituted by life imprisonment by President Bakili Muluzi
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abd-al-Khayr Bin-Abdallah Bin-Makhdur al-Mizyani al-Harbi...
Abd-al-Khayr Bin-Abdallah Bin-Makhdur al-Mizyani al-Harbi was convicted of the murder of Ahmad Bin-Makhdur Al-Mizyani al-Harbi and executed in Jiddah
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A District and Session Court sentenced three brothers,...
A District and Session Court sentenced three brothers, Abraru Hassan, Naeemul Hassan and Asrarul Hassan to death for a triple murder
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Six death row inmates were killed, at the King'ongo...
Six death row inmates were killed, at the King'ongo prison in Nyeri, during a failed escape attempt in which they had stripped naked and used their prison uniforms as a rope to scale a 25ft wall
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed in Hafar al-Batin after he was convicted...
A man was executed in Hafar al-Batin after he was convicted of selling hashish
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence...
A Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence passed by the High Court against two Indian brothers, Kooky Sharmar and Davinder Kumar, for killing Kooky's wife Renu Joshi in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was hanged in the south-eastern city of Kerman...
A man was hanged in the south-eastern city of Kerman for murdering his ex-wife after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence issued by a lower court
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence passed...
A Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence passed by the High Court against two Indian brothers, Kooky Sharmar and Davinder Kumar, for killing Kooky's wife Renu Joshi in 1997
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The daily Iranian newspaper Qods reported that Ali...
The daily Iranian newspaper Qods reported that Ali Taqizadeh, a 70-year-old man, was executed by hanging in the holy city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy...
The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran" (SMCCDI) wrote a letter to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the 54th session of the UN General Assembly, in which they criticised President Khatami
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy welcomed Vietnam's...
Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy welcomed Vietnam's decision to release Nguyen's mother Tran Thi Cam, 74, executed in April
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt after a meeting of Belgian...
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt after a meeting of Belgian Council of Ministers said Belgium will not extradite Fehriye Erdal to Turkey