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 21, 2000TunisiaDEATH PENALTY
130 people were executed in Tunisia since independence...
130 people were executed in Tunisia since independence in 1956, Tunisian daily L'Observateur reported
- JUNE 21, 2000SyriaDEATH PENALTY
The Muslim Brotherhood movement in Syria expressed...
The Muslim Brotherhood movement in Syria expressed its readiness to deal with the new Syrian leadership
- JUNE 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for...
A teacher in Lahore was given the death sentence for hacking to death a ten-year-old pupil
- JUNE 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that capital...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that capital punishment can be abolished if it is removed from the framework of Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code [TCK], which formed the basis of the conviction of terrorist Abdullah Ocalan and many other Kurdis
- JUNE 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said...
National Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu said that his office would take up the death sentence handed down to terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan one more time
- JUNE 21, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Scripps-Howard Poll found that 57% of Texans surveyed...
A Scripps-Howard Poll found that 57% of Texans surveyed believe Texas has executed someone who was innocent of the crime, and 3 out of 4 respondents said the state should declare a moratorium on death sentences in cases that might be affected by DNA testi
- JUNE 21, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Provenzano, 51, white, was put to death by lethal...
Thomas Provenzano, 51, white, was put to death by lethal injection in Florida State Prison, Starke
- JUNE 21, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Al Gore interjected himself Wednesday into the death-penalty...
Al Gore interjected himself Wednesday into the death-penalty maelstrom surrounding Republican rival George W
- JUNE 21, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The (government) DS leader Walter Veltroni sent a letter...
The (government) DS leader Walter Veltroni sent a letter to all political party leaders appealing for unanimous support to a parliamentary motion to save [Virginia death row inmate] Rocco Derek Barnabei's life
- JUNE 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist...
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist ethnic Turkic Uighurs, was secretly executed after being held in isolation since his arrest in mid-1998
- JUNE 20, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito...
It was reported that in February six men, Osmany Brito Cartaya, Alberto Diaz Perez, Julio Alberto Morales Montero, Morlaix Nodal Pozo, Reidel Rodriguez Reyes and Hector Santana Vega, were sentenced to death for killing five guards during a bloody jailbrea
- JUNE 20, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
President Thabo Mbeki and several South African political...
President Thabo Mbeki and several South African political parties expressed their sorrow at news of the death of Chief Justice Ismail Mohamed
- JUNE 20, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional...
Akbar Sain was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore for murdering [a person identified only as] Nasir over a money dispute in the Audit Officer Colony of Gulberg on July 13 ,1997
- JUNE 20, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned...
Kalinaw Mindanao, the fact-finding group commissioned by the House committee on human rights, reported that two Moro farmers, Kole Jalodin and Nasser Tambag, were summarily executed at the height of military offensives in Pikit
- JUNE 20, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against...
Kuwait's Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence against Kader Bee Palagiri, a 22 year old Indian maid, for killing her 80-year-old Kuwaiti employer and stealing her money and jewellery in 1999
- JUNE 19, 2000BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations met in Jamaica to discuss how to set up and pay for a proposed Caribbean court to replace the British Privy Council as the region's final court of appeal
- JUNE 19, 2000JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom)...
Law officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations met in Jamaica to discuss how to set up and pay for a proposed Caribbean court that would replace the British Privy Council as the region's final court of appeal
- JUNE 19, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia...
A Nigerian man had his hand amputated in Saudi Arabia for pickpocketing
- JUNE 19, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected...
The Belgian Refugees Department Chairmanship rejected the application of Fehriye Erdal for political asylum
- JUNE 19, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman, Warni Samiran Audi, for murder
- JUNE 19, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for...
A court in Sanaa sentenced seven people to death for belonging to a group involved in banditry and the kidnapping of foreigners
- JUNE 19, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang,...
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang, East Jave, who killed her employer's wife in 1998 by beating her on the head with an iron pipe, was beheaded in al-Ihsa region
- JUNE 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore...
An Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore Zawar Ahmad meted out deathsentences to Muhammad Khan Chachar and Yousaf Bogio for firing on Imran Aziz, son of Supreme Court Judge Rashid Aziz Khan and murdering his assistant Ghulam Mustafa
- JUNE 19, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant...
Abdollah Rasouli, 31, convicted of killing his pregnant wife on January 23, 2000 was sentenced to death
- JUNE 17, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from...
A Bulgarian Parliamentary delegation returned from Tripoli with the pledge of a fair trial for the six Bulgarian medics implicated in the HIV infection scandal in Libya
- JUNE 17, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation...
The Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes (UDV) said in its report Performed Capital Punishments in Czechoslovakia in 1918-1989 that Czechoslovak courts sentenced to death 1,207 people between 1918 and 1989 when the capital punishment w
- JUNE 17, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias...
Three accomplices, Waheed alias Tadi, Shakeel alias Shahjee and Zahid, were condemned to death for a double murder during a robbery by an additional district and session court in Faisalabad
- JUNE 17, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National...
Yildirim Akbulut, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly [TBMM], said that abolishing the death penalty was not as easy as one might think at the moment
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhu Zexin, alias Zhang Xiong, to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced its judgment on the extraordinary case of mass murder in the coal pits in Yi County, Liaoning