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
- MAY 28, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim...
A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim women, was pushing the government to get tough with sex criminals
- MAY 28, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
A 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Kawuta said...
A 15-year-old boy whose name was given as Kawuta said he had witnessed dismemberment, torture and summary executions
- MAY 28, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Bangura, a former leader of the Sierra Leone...
Mohamed Bangura, a former leader of the Sierra Leone rebel government who fled to Britain, appealed to Jack Straw, the British Home Secretary, not to deport him
- MAY 28, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University demonstrated...
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University demonstrated in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, demanding the execution of Mohammad Adam Omar, 45, a Sudanese morgue worker being tried on charges of raping and killing 16 women, including at least six university st
- MAY 28, 2000SudanDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University (the scene...
Hundreds of students from Sanaa University (the scene of the murders) demonstrated in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, demanding the execution of Mohammad Adam Omar
- MAY 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of...
Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of China branch in the city of Shaoguan, was executed for the white-collar crime of diverting funds (1
- MAY 27, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Sole Tura, a member of the Monitoring Commission of...
Sole Tura, a member of the Monitoring Commission of the Council of Europe on a visit to Albania, said that many changes have taken place in Albania since his last visit
- MAY 27, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members...
The Lebanese army said it was holding 1,488 members of the disintegrated Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia who surrendered during the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon
- MAY 27, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said Belgium's decision...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said Belgium's decision not to extradite Fehriye Erdal that "shows that Turkey has to discuss its punishment system, including the death penalty, calmly"
- MAY 27, 2000CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic archbishop...
Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, has urged California Gov
- MAY 26, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his...
Romanian Foreign Minister Petre Roman proposed to his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Geremek, that Poland assume the judicial retrial of Ilie Ilascu, who is detained in a Tiraspol prison
- MAY 26, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in Parliament that...
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in Parliament that the permission given by the Libyan authorities for a Bulgarian lawyer to take part in the defence in the case against the six detained Bulgarian medics in Tripoli, had no precedents and was made possi
- MAY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu Guangming, the manager of the Liancheng Aluminum Lianhai Integrated Development Company, to death
- MAY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying,...
Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying, an unemployed woman, and Hu Jiama, a farmer, were sentenced to death for tricking 57 women between 1993 and 1998 with promises of work or travel to go to other parts of the mainland, where they were
- MAY 26, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Kumamoto District Court sentenced Yoshiaki Nishimura...
The Kumamoto District Court sentenced Yoshiaki Nishimura ,45, to death for killing the wife of a doctor and stealing 2 million yen in cash and a deposit book from her house in Kumamoto in November 1997
- MAY 26, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
An Egyptian driver was executed in Saudi Arabia for...
An Egyptian driver was executed in Saudi Arabia for stabbing to death his Saudi employer and cutting up the corpse
- MAY 26, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)...
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) said there was evidence that human rights abuses had been committed by both rebels and government forces in the latest round of fighting in the war that began in 1991
- MAY 26, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle...
The Albanian Parliament's Deputy Speaker Namik Dokle speaking at a meeting with the delegation of the CE's Monitoring Commission said that the removal of the capital punishment constituted an obligation towards the Council of Europe
- MAY 26, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal to Turkey, overruling the Supreme Court's decision
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi...
Nawwaf Bin-Marzuq Bin-Abdallah and Mas'ad Bin-Luwayfi Bin-Khudayr were executed in Medina after having been found guilty of consuming alcohol, then breaking into a house and raping a woman
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was...
Salim Ahmad Hassan Mash'ali, an Iraqi national, was executed in Hafr al-Batin, after having been found guilty of smuggling hashish into Saudi Arabia
- MAY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed...
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Abd-al-Qadir Jadu, was executed and crucified after being found guilty of murdering his Saudi employer, Yusuf Bin-Ahmad Bin-Shahhat Bin-Muhammad Zaghbi
- MAY 26, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah addressed tens of thousands of people at a victory rally in Bint Jbeil town
- MAY 26, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that...
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt announced that the government would not extradite Fehriye Erdal, one of the suspects of the assassinated Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci, to Turkey, overruling a Supreme Court decision
- MAY 25, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by...
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff
- MAY 25, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested...
Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff arrested a Tajik citizen (Akram Yusupov), 36, who had been hiding for over a year from Tajik law-enforcement bodies that had put him on the international wanted list
- MAY 25, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
- MAY 25, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda...
Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago, on trial in Rwanda on genocide charges, sent a message of thanks to Pope John Paul for sending him a telegram of support in prison
- MAY 25, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj,...
The Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj, a hardline nationalist, said: "Anyone carrying out terrorist actions and killing our citizens upon an American order should face death penalty as well as those who are kidnapping our people
- MAY 25, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded...
Adnan Bin-Abdallah Bin-Qasim Bin-Salih was beheaded in Al-Ta'if, after the Grand Shari'ah Court found him guilty of "raping and causing the death of an Indonesian maid