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
- JULY 14, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that...
The Philippine Bishops' Office on Bioethics said that the draft bill offering reduced sentences to death-row convicts who donate their kidneys sounded "creative" but was morally defective
- JULY 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed...
A Dubai Court confirmed the death sentences passed on two Pakistani nationals [identified only as] N
- JULY 14, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Develet Bahceli, deputy prime minister and leader of...
Develet Bahceli, deputy prime minister and leader of the Nationalist Action Party, said that it was too early to abolish capital punishment in Turkey
- JULY 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Vice-president of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato,...
Vice-president of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato, wrote to French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in hope that the historic result of the presentation of the resolution on a world-wide moratorium on capital punishment, and its subsequent approval, wou
- JULY 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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- JULY 13, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Yasuo Hayashi appealed his death sentence to the Tokyo...
Yasuo Hayashi appealed his death sentence to the Tokyo High Court
- JULY 13, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of...
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights which sees the end of capital punishment in the country
- JULY 13, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of...
Albania's National Assembly ratified Protocol 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights which sees the end of capital punishment in the country
- JULY 13, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni commuted death sentences...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni commuted death sentences of 16 condemned prisoners by reducing the sentences of 12 of them to life imprisonment and freeing four others
- JULY 12, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions Judge in Lahore meted out the death sentence to Haji Azam for the murder of Karamat Ali on May 25,1998
- JULY 12, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating...
Dang Ngoc Chieu, who was prosecuted for circulating fake money in Hai Duong Province was sentenced to death while his two accomplices received life imprisonment
- JULY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Appeals revoked the sentences...
The Supreme Court of Appeals revoked the sentences passed on Unal Osman Agaoglu and Bunyamin Adanali who were sentenced to death on seven counts of murder for the murder of even students in Ankara in 1978 in a case known as the Bahcelievler massacre
- JULY 12, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Oriel Cecil Joiner, 50, white, was executed by lethal...
Oriel Cecil Joiner, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
- JULY 11, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation...
The Constitutional Court approved a draft legislation that removes the death penalty from fundamental law
- JULY 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi...
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi ibn Hamad Ali were beheaded in Abha after they were convicted of sodomy, transvestitism, same-sex marriage and raping of young boys
- JULY 11, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Shew Padshah was executed in accordance with the verdict...
Shew Padshah was executed in accordance with the verdict passed by the Shari'ah courts for shooting and killing a resident of Qarabagh
- JULY 11, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A man who killed two children, aged four and seven,...
A man who killed two children, aged four and seven, their father and a relative of the family was sentenced to death in Almaty
- JULY 11, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The American Bar Association's new President, Martha...
The American Bar Association's new President, Martha Barnett, urged the legal profession to support a moratorium on executions
- JULY 10, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani, was publicly beheaded...
Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani, was publicly beheaded in Riyadh after he was convicted of drug trafficking
- JULY 10, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
According to Amnesty International 28- year-old Dimitry...
According to Amnesty International 28- year-old Dimitry Chikunov, who had been sentenced to death for the killing of two men in April 1999, was executed in secret in Tashkent
- JULY 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court converted...
A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court converted the death sentence into life imprisonment for juvenile defendants Mohammad Arif and Ghulam Dastiger for committing gang rape on Rehana Kausar, 9, at Faisalabad on November 9, 1998
- JULY 10, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed Mir Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani...
Saudi Arabia executed Mir Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani national, for drug smuggling
- JULY 10, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Thousands of Iranians demonstrated in Berlin against...
Thousands of Iranians demonstrated in Berlin against a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
- JULY 9, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
In a statement issued by its Information Office, the...
In a statement issued by its Information Office, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood called for the release of all political prisoners, the halting of political pursuits, and the revocation of Law 49 of 1980, which imposes the death sentence against anyone who
- JULY 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Maryam Ayubi, 30, was found guilty of adultery with...
Maryam Ayubi, 30, was found guilty of adultery with her lover, Hossein Asna-Ashari, and of complicity in the murder of her husband
- JULY 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence...
A Beijing Intermediate Court handed down a death sentence on Ju Jiantai, 56, former deputy director of the Contemporary World Publishing Company and a member of the Communist Party for 37 years, for accepting bribes amounting to US$400,000
- JULY 8, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Brig-Gen Sa'ud Khalil al-Hindi, an officer in the Iraqi...
Brig-Gen Sa'ud Khalil al-Hindi, an officer in the Iraqi Army and member of the well-known Al-bu-Hindi Family in the city of Jalula in the Diyala Governorate, was executed on charges of "conspiracy against the state security and life of Iraqi President Sad
- JULY 8, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran executed six drug traffickers convicted of smuggling...
Iran executed six drug traffickers convicted of smuggling several tonnes of opium and morphine
- JULY 7, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The King commuted the death sentence of two Israeli...
The King commuted the death sentence of two Israeli drug traffickers to life imprisonment
- JULY 6, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's...
President Emil Constantinescu requested that the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly step in and help secure the release of Ilie Ilascu