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 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme...
Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult (Supreme Truth Sect), stood in court for the 148th time on charges of masterminding the March 20, 1995 gas attack
- MARCH 9, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President...
The exiled Iraqi Communist Party accused President Saddam Hussein's government of killing 58 prisoners held in solitary confinement, burying the bodies of 14 convicted of "political charges" at al-Zahedi cemetery south of Baghdad, and handing over the bod
- MARCH 9, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against...
The Court of Appeal confirmed a death sentence against Kampala businessman Johnson Kamya Wavamunno convicted of murder and robbery by the High Court last year
- MARCH 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
A woman was sentenced to death for murdering her husband
- MARCH 9, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee,...
Hussein Abedini, a member of the foreign affairs committee, said Iranian clerics had carried out some 120,000 executions since 1978, secretly or publicly, and that 700 people had been executed since the beginning of 1999
- MARCH 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor,...
Hu Changqing, 48, former Jiangxi Province Deputy Governor, was executed in the provincial capital of Nanchang
- MARCH 8, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50...
Eldar Zeynalov said that over that period, nearly 50 prisoners had died before the death penalty was executed
- MARCH 7, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative...
President Kim Dae-jung said he was highly appreciative of French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for his role in saving his life when he was sentenced to death by a Korean military tribunal in 1980
- MARCH 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses...
The Chechen command disseminated official data on losses of the Chechen and Russian sides during fighting since the beginning of the Russian aggression
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed...
Additional District and Sessions judge Zawar Ahmed condemned to death a woman [identified only as] Robina for murder
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri handed out the death sentence to [a person identified only as] Ishtiaq in an abduction cum sodomy case
- MARCH 7, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed...
Anti Terrorism Court Judge Sukkur Liaquat Hussain imposed the death sentence on Rustam and Raza Mohammad, found guilty of the murder of Bashir Ahmed Langah and Hyder Bux Langah
- MARCH 7, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with...
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met for talks with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi and with Khatami
- MARCH 7, 2000IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for...
A poll by the Chicago Tribune shows that support for the death penalty among registered voters in Illinois has fallen to 58%, down from 76% in August 1994 and 63% last year
- MARCH 6, 2000BahrainDEATH PENALTY
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa...
On March 6, 2000, Sheikh Hamad Bin `Issa Al Khalifa succeeded his late father Sheikh `Issa Bin Salman Al Khalifa as amir
- MARCH 6, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living...
The architect Hasib Aslan who designed Saddam's living quarters in Tikrit, Hillah and A'zamiyah, was arrested and imprisoned in Harithiyah prison, where he was executed on the charge of disclosing secret information on Saddam's palaces
- MARCH 6, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that...
Graham MacIntosh, a KwaZulu-Natal MP, recommended that the party's federal council call on government to establish a commission to investigate the re-imposition of the death penalty
- MARCH 4, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals...
Razmik Azarian, chairman of the Chamber of Appeals on criminal and military cases, on the question of the abolition of the death penalty said that in his opinion this issue should be solved by a national referendum
- MARCH 4, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that...
The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences that had been passed on Balal Moazami, Abbas A
- MARCH 4, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights...
Arango Escobar, Guatemalan Ombudsman for Human Rights announced that the Guatemalan Consul in Belize had taken steps to allow 61 Guatemalan prisoners, some of whom on death row, held in the Central de Hatyville prison in Belize to be deported back to Guat
- MARCH 3, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering...
Former counterculture guru Ira Einhorn, sheltering in France to avoid serving a life term for murdering his girlfriend in America, said he was a symbol of all death row inmates in the U
- MARCH 3, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
The Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Professor S
- MARCH 3, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death for the murder of Abdullah Mohammed Hassan in a dispute over land ownership
- MARCH 3, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual...
Tihomir Blaskic, found guilty by virtue of his individual and superior responsibility on 3 counts of crimes against humanity, 6 counts of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and 10 counts of violations of the laws or customs of war by Trial Chamber I
- MARCH 3, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri...
Special Anti Terrorist Court Judge Chaudhry Ehsan Sabri condemned Dhuman Khan to death twice for the murder of two LDA officers, Mian Gull Rukh (Deputy Director LDA) and Chaudhry Mohammad Jahangir (Assistant State Officer) when they came to check the docu
- MARCH 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress...
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Rasool Kar strongly condemned the excesses of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir and demanded a probe into the Indian brutalities
- MARCH 3, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a...
Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, on a visit to Ankara, said that Turkey had made some progress in human rights, however there were still many things to be done in this field
- MARCH 3, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric...
Freddie Lee Wright, 48, black, was executed by electric chair in Hoffman Prison
- MARCH 2, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county,...
In a pre-dawn incursion in a rural Anitioquia county, paramilitaries massacred eight people
- MARCH 2, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor...
Human rights campaigners in France denounced Governor George W