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 27, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar...
A Special Anti Terrorist Court condemned Riaz Akhtar and Nawaz to death for an abduction cum rape case
- MARCH 27, 2000DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights, Foreign Affairs Minister Helveg Petersen said that the Commission on Human Rights should take a firm stand on the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 26, 2000MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 26, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 25, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called...
The Texas Criminal Defence Lawyers Association called on Governor Bush to impose a moratorium on executions in Texas
- MARCH 24, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government...
President Hugo Chavez ruled out that the government planned to institute the death penalty or life sentence as a means of coping with this problem of spiralling crime
- MARCH 24, 2000MongoliaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s...
The UN Human Rights Committee met to consider Mongolia`s fourth periodic report on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- MARCH 24, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing...
At its annual congress in Centurion, the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party said that the death penalty would be reinstated and carried out in public under an Afrikaner government
- MARCH 24, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for...
The Appeals Chamber increased the final sentence for Zlatko Aleksovski to seven years' imprisonment
- MARCH 24, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded...
Khaled Fadghoush and Mansour Ali Ahmad were beheaded for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl
- MARCH 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on...
President Estrada declared an 11 month moratorium on 18 out of 959 death convicts awaiting execution by lethal injection out of respect for the world-wide celebration of the Jubilee Year
- MARCH 24, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by...
A Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore headed by judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned two men [identified only as] Zulifqar and Nasir to death in a rape cum murder case
- MARCH 23, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal...
Judge Ahmad Moualem rejected a death sentence appeal from 25-year-old Mohammed Abdul Halim Abbarah, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of Walid Jbaili in the Chouf
- MARCH 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to...
Hassan Kahi and Mohammad Noushin were sentenced to death for murdering Dr
- MARCH 23, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal...
Kelly Lamont Rogers 31, black, was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- MARCH 22, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces...
Clashes between tribal gunmen and the emergency forces and detachments of Fida'iyin ended in the city of Rumaythah in southwestern Iraq with the execution of 14 gunmen corned by Saddam's forces
- MARCH 22, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate...
Governor of Kemerovo region and presidential candidate Aman Tuleyev said that the moratorium on capital punishment must be annulled in Russia considering that Russia should not keep Chechen bandits like Salman Raduyev in prisons
- MARCH 22, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described...
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described as a notorious cow thief, had his right hand chopped off from the wrist
- MARCH 22, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Lusaka sentenced to death a man found...
The High Court in Lusaka sentenced to death a man found guilty of the 1993 murder of Major-General Gerald Nyirenda, former commandant of the Zambia National Service
- MARCH 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
A senior minister said that Sri Lanka was drafting...
A senior minister said that Sri Lanka was drafting tough new laws to combat the growing wave of violent organised crime
- MARCH 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law...
President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed the law abolishing the death penalty with immediate effect
- MARCH 22, 2000MissouriDEATH PENALTY
James Henry Hampton, 62, white, was put to death by...
James Henry Hampton, 62, white, was put to death by lethal injection in State Prison of Potosi
- MARCH 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, Foreign...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, Foreign Minister of the EU term president Portugal, said the EU is committed to the dialogue with China on human rights
- MARCH 21, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Affairs minister Vale Rangel said the new Constitution,...
Foreign Affairs minister Vale Rangel said the new Constitution, which reflected the most recent developments in international human rights law, gave full effect to all the human rights instruments to which Venezuela was a party
- MARCH 21, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights,...
At the 56° session of the Commission on Human Rights, Minister for Foreign Affairs Joseph Deiss stated that his government was concerned about the way in which the death penalty continued to be applied in certain countries, including the United States, be
- MARCH 21, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted...
First Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said he doubted if capital punishment was applicable on Chechen rebel leaders Salman Raduyev and Salaudin Timirbulatov as Russia, being a member of the Council of Europe, had imposed a moratorium on death penaltie
- MARCH 21, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
During a presidential election debate broadcast by...
During a presidential election debate broadcast by Russia TV featuring suspended Prosecutor-General Yuriy Skuratov and Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov said he was in favour or retaining capital punishment
- MARCH 21, 2000TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The government of Tanzania deported an Egyptian, Mustafa...
The government of Tanzania deported an Egyptian, Mustafa Mohamoud Ahmed, one of the suspects of the US Embassy bombing in Dar Es Salaam in 1998 where 11 people were killed and more than 70 injured
- MARCH 21, 2000MaltaDEATH PENALTY
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated...
The Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2000 was promulgated following approval of the Act by the House of Representatives and President Guido de Marco, allowing Malta to abolish the death penalty for all crimes
- MARCH 21, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, foreign...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights Jaime Gama, foreign minister of EU president Portugal, has said the EU is committed to dialogue with China on human rights