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
- MARCH 30, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeals upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeals upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on Andy Baginda, a Filipino drug trafficker
- MARCH 30, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Chief...
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Chief Maweni Simelane, said the government had given up its search for a permanent hangman because there were many people on death row
- MARCH 30, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence...
The Court of Appeal upheld the mandatory death sentence imposed on a Filipino drug trafficker by the High Court in 1998
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a...
An Additional Sessions court in Pasrur handed out a death sentence to Waheed Murad for murder
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional...
Tariq Iqbal was condemned to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Lahore
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
- MARCH 30, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication...
Islamists in Jordan were outraged by the publication of a poem titled "Joseph," written by poet Musa Hawamdeh
- MARCH 30, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's...
The Supreme People's Court upheld the lower court's decision to impose the death sentence on Tang Binh, former director of Kien Giang Import-Export Co
- MARCH 30, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Vice-President of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato,...
The Vice-President of the Italian Senate, Ersilia Salvato, discussed the abolition of the death penalty with the newly-elected president of the French National Assembly Raymond Forni
- MARCH 30, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Chamber of Deputies approved unanimously a motion...
The Chamber of Deputies approved unanimously a motion that bound the government to steer the EU to present a new resolution for the abolition of the death penalty at the Commission for Human Rights
- MARCH 29, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
One more mass killing of local inhabitants was carried...
One more mass killing of local inhabitants was carried out in Staropromyslovskiy district of the town
- MARCH 29, 2000NamibiaDEATH PENALTY
The Namibian army and Police were accused by the United...
The Namibian army and Police were accused by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after it submitted the names of 50 Angolan refugees who went missing after they arrived in Namibia and accused Namibian authorities of complicity in the
- MARCH 29, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted...
Justice officials intervened and saved a convicted rapist whom officials were set to execute despite a reprieve granted him two days earlier
- MARCH 29, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out...
An Additional Session court in Faisalabad, handed out the death penalty to Ramazan Khalid of Nishatabad for murder
- MARCH 29, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh,...
Jordan's Military Attorney General, Mamoun Khassawneh, indicted 28 Arab nationals charged with planning bombing attacks on United States and Israeli tourists celebrating the New Year in Jordan
- MARCH 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President...
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President and Tamil Nadu Governor to grant clemency to death row convict [identified only as] Govindasamy who was still awaiting execution in a Coimbatore jail sixteen years after having committed a crime
- MARCH 28, 2000MonacoDEATH PENALTY
Monaco ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the...
Monaco ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 28, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano,...
Angola's Assistant Attorney-General Cunha Caetano, speaking in Geneva at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Commission, denied reports by Amnesty International that his country's armed forces have been involved in human rights violations
- MARCH 28, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction...
The Federal Court dismissed an appeal by construction worker Sam Hong Choy
- MARCH 28, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned...
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned in the self-declared republic of Abkhazia committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Dranda, the minister of internal affairs of Abkhazia, Almazbei Kchach, said on April 3
- MARCH 28, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
Executive Secretary Ronaldo B
- MARCH 28, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special...
Ghulam Hussain was condemned to death by a Special Anti Terrorist court in Lahore
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out...
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out the death sentence to "Ripper Chacko", 54, for the gruesome murder of a five-member family, including three children, in the Idukki district in August 1988
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction...
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was given the death sentence for organising a deadly shoot-out in the JJ hospital seven years previously
- MARCH 27, 2000FinlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja said that the use of the death penalty was a serious human rights problem, which jeopardized, interalia, the right to life and the right to freedom from
- MARCH 27, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for...
At the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign affairs Milo, said that, in passing from the phase of emergency to that of longterm development, Albania had been making perceptible progress in implementing human rights by establishing the rul
- MARCH 27, 2000SpainDEATH PENALTY
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56th session of the Commission on Human Rights, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Juan Matutes, stated that the right to life was something which could not be renounced
- MARCH 27, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha,...
The Pretoria High Court sentenced Farao Ramaposha, a 20-year-old gardener from Zimbabwe, to 25 years in prison for stabbing a Laudium mother of three to death in August 1998
- MARCH 27, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal...
The government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as...
Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology declared as detrimental to 'Shariat' a Lahore court verdict convicting serial child killer Javed Iqbal to death by strangulation, suffering the same fate as his victims