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
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to...
Chen Jiansheng, a drug trafficker, was sentenced to death by the Haikou Municipal People's Intermediate Court
- JUNE 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court decreed the death penalty on Liu Futian who sold 810 grams of heroin and made an illegal gain of 105,600 yuan
- JUNE 27, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was...
A Radkhantapur man [identified only as] Tazemul was given the death penalty for burning his pregnant wife to death
- JUNE 27, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which...
The Chechen Interior Ministry issued a statement which noted that hostages in Russian concentration camps were being systematically beaten up with special lead-core truncheons and tortured with electricity, pulling out nails, crushing limbs, and using gas
- JUNE 27, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed...
Nicole Cheves, Deputy Consul General of Portugal, conveyed to Governor George Bush an urgent humanitarian appeal by the European Union on behalf of Mr
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong,...
Tan Huijun, Li Changxing, Duan Faxiang, Jiang Zhidong, Pu Shaogang, Wang Wenfu, Zhu Bixun and Zhu Jiazeng were executed in Baise City and Guigang City in Guangxi because they were found guilty of involvement in four drug-related cases
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to...
Four major drug criminals who had been sentenced to death by the intermediate courts in Xian and Baoji and whose death sentences had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, were executed in the two cities
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution...
The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court ordered the execution of eight drug traffickers including Wang Yan (female), Jin Xiaoli (female), Yang Hansheng, Sun Weiyu, Tao Yaocong, Chen Manchun, Wang Weiping, and Wang Zhanping
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the...
The Shanghai Nmber2 Intermediate Court executed the death penalty on two convicted drug traffickers: 36-year old Ma Fenghua and Ma Wenzhong who werefounf guilty of trafficking 5,250 grams of heroin
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court handed down death sentences to Ma Xueyun, a drug trafficker, drug smugglers Yan Zai, Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan, the latter two of Burmese nationality, and drug transporters Li Jie and Gong Xiaoying
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised...
China executed tens of drug traffickers in a synchronised operation to dramatise its seriousness about fighting drug-related crime and to mark the International Anti-Drug Day
- JUNE 26, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians...
The "Jihad in Chechnya" web site said that civilians from the towns of Shali, Shatoy, Argun and Atmikli were allegedly by taken Russian forces from their houses and have not returned
- JUNE 26, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against...
Brunei Darussalam observed the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
- JUNE 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement...
The Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an agreement regarding the transfer of Filipino and British nationals serving prison sentences in the two countries
- JUNE 26, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Kunming Municipal Intermediate People's Court in China pronounced death sentences on on Burmese drug smugglers Ying Han and Sai Yan Shan
- JUNE 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
Chongqing Number One Intermediate People's Court sentenced 24 alleged drug traffickers to death, the Chongqing Daily reported
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's...
Beijing Number One and Number Two Intermediate People's Courts pronounced death sentences on seven drug traffickers including Zhuang Yuntong, Zhao Peiqing, Ma Zuoqing, Yuan Yuehong, female and Xinjiang female vagrant A-Yi-Gu-Li Yu-Su-Fu
- JUNE 25, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court held a hearing to try Wu Man, 40, and reiterated that the Chinese mainland has the right to arrest and interrogate him
- JUNE 25, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village...
A man, Zahid [no first name given] of Nazirhat village in Sonandanga upazila, was condemned to death for strangling his wife Rahima and daughter Reshma to death, on September 5, 1997
- JUNE 25, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's...
Dusko Sikirica, the commander of one of the Serb's most notorious prison camps, was arrested by British troops and flown to The Hague to face trial
- JUNE 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a...
The Hunan People's Courts at different levels in a united action, ordered the executions of 154 drug traffickers and smugglers
- JUNE 24, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban...
President Fidel Castro in a message sent to the Cuban condemned Gary Graham's execution in Texas as a racist "crime" and cited the execution as an example of why Elian Gonzalez (a Cuban boat boy who had been retained in the United States by his relatives
- JUNE 24, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party...
The Patriotic Front and the Patriotic Republican Party organised a demonstration against the legalisation of drugs
- JUNE 24, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the...
Over 20,000 Kurds demonstrated in Duesseldorf for the release of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed...
Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence passed on Soussan Hajirian, 42, who had been convicted of murdering her ex-husband after he beat the couple's children
- JUNE 24, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting...
Abbas Yar-Ali, 35, accused of kidnapping and assaulting 13 girls (aged 4 to 9) over a period of 7 years (1989-1996), was hanged in Ghasr prison, Tehran
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Ming and ten others (unnamed) to death; Liu Gang and seven others were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown