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 4, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Over 1,000 Bulgarians holding lighted candles gathered...
Over 1,000 Bulgarians holding lighted candles gathered at the Libyan embassy in Sofia to support the six Bulgarian health workers facing trial in Libya on charges of infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus
- JUNE 4, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court of Libya adjourned for September...
The People's Court of Libya adjourned for September 17 the trial of the six Bulgarian medics charged with infecting intentionally Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- JUNE 4, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The UN mission in Sierra Leone launched an investigation...
The UN mission in Sierra Leone launched an investigation into human rights abuses by fighting forces, an official of the mission said
- JUNE 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca
- JUNE 4, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice,...
The London-based human rights group Caribbean Justice, which works for the abolition of the death penalty, said that Trinidad and Tobago was not a safer place and the murder rate was climbing despite 11 state executions in 1999
- JUNE 3, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The UAE Central Bank called for the death penalty to...
The UAE Central Bank called for the death penalty to be applied worldwide for drug trafficking
- JUNE 3, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to...
Relatives of former SLA members who surrendered to the government demanded to know the conditions in which they were being held and the likely lengths of their prison sentences before encouraging the return of those who fled to Israel
- JUNE 3, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a statement from death...
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, in a statement from death row, said that a general amnesty must be legislated, so that arms could be laid down
- JUNE 2, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Bulgarian justice minister, Teodosiy Simeonov,...
The Bulgarian justice minister, Teodosiy Simeonov, said that the six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya had been tortured
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining...
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining public funds through corruption
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed death sentence on Li Jie with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme...
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme People's Court upheld their sentences for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and rape
- JUNE 2, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The government issued a statement that defended the...
The government issued a statement that defended the December 1999 execution of a death-row inmate who had been requesting a retrial
- JUNE 2, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death...
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for possessing 190,000 speed pills with intent to sell
- JUNE 2, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter...
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer wrote a private letter to the attorney-general
- JUNE 2, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Pernell Ford, 35, black, was executed by electric chair
Pernell Ford, 35, black, was executed by electric chair
- JUNE 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced...
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced the execution of seven principal drug traffickers including Zhang Qingai, Mo Daiqin, Jiang Xixin, Cheng Hua, Cheng Yun, Liu Guifen and Sun Gaolin
- JUNE 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved...
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved the death sentence on Gui Weishu for abducting and murdering Qu Chaoliang, a judge of the Xuanhan County Court
- JUNE 1, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Shamsul...
The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Shamsul Arefin condemned to death Ershad Ali Sikder, a notorious terrorist, for the killing of a murder witness
- JUNE 1, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa...
It was quoted that residents in the area of Camacupa as saying that UNITA also executed 37 traditional chiefs by hanging
- JUNE 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
According to the information available to the Chief...
According to the information available to the Chief of Russia's General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin, Aslan Maskhadov signed a decree ordering to expose the Chechens cooperating with federal authorities
- JUNE 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian journalist who worked for...
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian journalist who worked for Radio Television libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) and who pleaded guilty to direct and public incitement to commit genocide and persecution in Rwanda in 1994 received a 12-year jail sentence from a United
- JUNE 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian national who worked as a...
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian national who worked as a journalist in Rwanda during the events of 1994, pleaded guilty to, and was subsequently convicted by Trial Chamber I of direct and public incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity (persecu
- JUNE 1, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused the ruling ZANU PF party...
Amnesty International accused the ruling ZANU PF party of extrajudicial executions and of torturing opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters in the run-up to the elections to be held on the 24th and 25th of June
- JUNE 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
The courts sentenced eight people to death for taking...
The courts sentenced eight people to death for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide
- JUNE 1, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohd Zaiham Mislan, 25, from Johor Baru, was sentenced...
Mohd Zaiham Mislan, 25, from Johor Baru, was sentenced to death by the High Court after he was found guilty of trafficking 45
- JUNE 1, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Zoran Balinovac, Deputy Justice Minster of the Republic...
Zoran Balinovac, Deputy Justice Minster of the Republic of Serbia said that "a law against terrorism is necessary in order for us to be able to react suitably and appropriately to the situation that our country is in, as well as to protect the constitutio
- JUNE 1, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out...
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out the death sentence to Vashram Narsinh Rajpara for killing his wife and four daughters by setting them on fire while they were sleeping on May 22, 1999
- JUNE 1, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate...
President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate Kekchi-speaking peasant farmer, Pedro Rax Cucul, who had been sentenced to death for a 1996 murder
- JUNE 1, 2000MarylandDEATH PENALTY
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