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 8, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar...
Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah condemned [two men identified only as] Tariq and Nawaz to death for murdering Zahid Mehmood on September 24, 1995
- MAY 8, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem...
Lawyers defending the 15 alleged followers of Moslem militant Osama bin Laden questioned the legality of the prosecution case and demanded the dismissal of charges of plotting terrorist attacks
- MAY 8, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman by the name of Zeinab-ol Sadat, also known...
A woman by the name of Zeinab-ol Sadat, also known as Soudabeh, was handed two death sentences for killing a 70 year old man, to whom she was "temporarily wed" and his 12 year old grandson
- MAY 8, 2000New HampshireDEATH PENALTY
As the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted...
As the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-1 to recommend that the state's death penalty law be repealed, a new poll by Northeastern University found that 55% of New Hampshire residents support abolition of the state's death penalty, 35% oppo
- MAY 7, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human...
Abul Kashem was sentenced to death by hanging for human trafficking
- MAY 7, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Wong Boon Hing, 26, a Malaysian cook, was charged with...
Wong Boon Hing, 26, a Malaysian cook, was charged with allegedly importing 1060
- MAY 7, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly...
Mohammed Akram Bakhsh, a Pakistani man, was publicly beheaded for killing a fellow national
- MAY 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded...
Pakistani Mohammed Akram Bakhsh was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for killing a fellow national
- MAY 7, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally...
A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally killing his sister-in-law and six-month-old nephew in 1994 on apprehending that his father was not going to not give him a share of the ancestral property
- MAY 7, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad-Reza and Mohammad-Bagher were sentenced to...
Mohammad-Reza and Mohammad-Bagher were sentenced to death, and 74 lashings, for murdering a man in the course of an armed robbery
- MAY 6, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Guerrillas pulled a Chechen village mayor suspect of...
Guerrillas pulled a Chechen village mayor suspect of "collaborate" out of his car and executed him summarily for working with the Russians
- MAY 5, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission...
Mikhail Shpindeleger, rapporteur of the Commission for Human Rights and Legal Issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CE), speaking on the issue of Armenia's membership, said that the Commission was delighted, surprised and pleased
- MAY 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court...
The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court in New Delhi for annulling the death sentences passed on "three child murderers because they did not kill children for any of the usual horrible reasons, but to please the gods
- MAY 5, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Senate Vice-President Ersilia Salvato discussed the...
Senate Vice-President Ersilia Salvato discussed the role of European parliaments in urging a moratorium on executions with representatives of the Portuguese, Austrian, Spanish and Belgian parliaments
- MAY 4, 2000Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended...
The Brazzaville criminal court handed down suspended death sentences to former prime minister of the Republic of Congo, Bernard Kolelas, and his cousin, former Interior Minister Philippe Bikikinta
- MAY 4, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A High Court Division Bench overturned the death sentence...
A High Court Division Bench overturned the death sentence meted out to Babul Hossain and his mother Sufia Khatun by the Women and Children Repression Prevention (Special Provisions) Court of Chandpur
- MAY 4, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Rezaul Jalal, 40, was condemned to death
Rezaul Jalal, 40, was condemned to death
- MAY 4, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Four detainees accused of infiltration, murder and...
Four detainees accused of infiltration, murder and terrorism were sentenced to death by the Kigali Court of First Instance
- MAY 4, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and...
Amnesty International said that opposition groups and other vigilante groups in Mindanao were responsible for human rights abuses, including hostage-taking and killings
- MAY 4, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A man identified as Mohammad was sentenced to death...
A man identified as Mohammad was sentenced to death for killing his brother in law in Khavaran, near Tehran
- MAY 4, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal...
Tommy Jackso, 43, black, was put to death by lethal injection
- MAY 3, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Saiful Alam, of Chandrapara village in Barahatta upazila,...
Saiful Alam, of Chandrapara village in Barahatta upazila, was sentenced to death by District and Sessions Judge Ishtiaq Hossain for the murder of a college student, [identified only as] Manik, at the Mohonganj railway station on April 14, 1999
- MAY 3, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Judge Cosmas Kabamba of the Ndola High Court sentenced...
Judge Cosmas Kabamba of the Ndola High Court sentenced to hang Mike Simbaya, an unemployed Kankoyo who allegedly brutally murdered his 12-year-old niece, Mercy Museya, between October 19 and 20 1997
- MAY 3, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels...
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels launched their biggest offensive in their more than two-decade-old bloody campaign for a separate Tamil homeland
- MAY 3, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
The High Court sentenced Othman bin Abdullah, a water...
The High Court sentenced Othman bin Abdullah, a water taxi operator, to death for drug trafficking
- MAY 3, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded...
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded in Arar for murdering his wife
- MAY 3, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal...
Costa Rica confirmed its intention to deport Nazi criminal Bogdan Kozy, a Ukrainian who served in the German police while his native country was occupied by the Nazis in World War II
- MAY 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing...
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing to death four people for sacrificing three children at Newasa in 1992
- MAY 3, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to...
Vietnam expressed regret over Canada's decision to stop contacts with Hanoi at the level of ministries and agencies
- MAY 3, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for...
Two Syrians were sentenced to death in absentia for killing a man and his son in Metn in 1999