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 2, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle...
The Albanian Council of Ministers adopted in principle Protocol 6 of the Convention on the Defence of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms
- MARCH 2, 2000OmanDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to...
Ali Mohammed Al Hambousi Al Shehi was sentenced to death and his nephew to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of a man over a land dispute
- MARCH 2, 2000SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an...
The Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH) proposed an initiative that would increase punishment for severe criminal offences, in order to stop the upward trend in crime, brutality, and organised crime over the past decade
- MARCH 2, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering...
Hossein Arjmandi received two death sentences for murdering a mother and her son
- MARCH 2, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 1, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki...
The Tsu District Court sentenced 46 year old Nobuyuki Sawamoto, 50 year old Sakae Matsuyama, and Yoshiaki Fukumoto, 49, to death for murdering two Filipinos and robbing them of money and jewellery in Mie Prefecture on December 25, 1998
- MARCH 1, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville...
Odell Barnes was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville prison in Texas
- MARCH 1, 2000HungaryDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters...
Russian Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg said that the moratorium on the death penalty remains valid in Russia, and since Chechnya is a part of Russia, the moratorium extends to its territory too
- MARCH 1, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee...
Pavel Krasheninnikov chairman of the legislation committee of the State Duma said he submitted the issue of abrogating capital punishment to the lower house for discussion
- MARCH 1, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers...
Twenty Argentinians including several police officers are to be tried as accomplices in the 1994 bombing that levelled a Buenos Aires Jewish community centre, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds
- MARCH 1, 2000BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined...
Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel said he is determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but will not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium...
Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel said that Belgium was determined to take action against suspected Rwandan genocide suspects but would not extradite them because Rwanda continues to impose the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000St. Kitts & NevisDEATH PENALTY
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice...
An agreement to set up a Caribbean Court of Justice as the region's final court of appeal was discussed during a meeting of leaders from the 15-member regional grouping known as Caricom
- MARCH 1, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath,...
Hungary's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gabor Horvath, said Hungary welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Parliament to abolish the death penalty
- MARCH 1, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal...
Centurion psychiatrist Omar Sabadia lost his appeal against his effective 50-year jail term, which he was serving for the 1996 kidnapping and murder of his wife, Zahida Sabadia
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being...
Abdullah ibn Saeed Al-Saeed was beheaded after being found guilty of raping a five-year-old boy
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded...
Sami Manie Al-Shamlan, who was sentenced to be beheaded for killing Ali Al-Khaldi, was spared the death sentence after he received a pardon
- MARCH 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ali ibn Ali Abu Nieb, a Saudi national, was executed...
Ali ibn Ali Abu Nieb, a Saudi national, was executed after being found guilty of raping a man after taking drugs
- MARCH 1, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional Sessions Judge, Ghulam Hussain Awan handed...
Additional Sessions Judge, Ghulam Hussain Awan handed out the death sentence to Mohammad Ashraf for shooting dead a person in a dispute over land
- MARCH 1, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian student facing execution for his part in...
An Iranian student facing execution for his part in the violent unrest of last July claimed he had been tortured and ill-treated in prison since his arrest
- MARCH 1, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Odell Barnes Jr, 31, black, was executed by lethal injection
Odell Barnes Jr, 31, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 1, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair
January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Libyan Justice Secretary gave his Bulgarian counterpart...
The Libyan Justice Secretary gave his Bulgarian counterpart guarantees that the Bulgarian medics would be given a fair trial
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The EU held in Lisbon a marathon eleven-hour session...
The EU held in Lisbon a marathon eleven-hour session of "dialogue on human rights" with China
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000BrazilDEATH PENALTY
A human rights group reported that civil and military...
A human rights group reported that civil and military police in Latin America's most populous nation had participated in 2,500 killings since 1997, a figure that some activists and federal law enforcement officials considered a conservative estimate
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
The Swiss Federal Council and the Albanian Government...
The Swiss Federal Council and the Albanian Government signed an agreement in Bern
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesia's State Minister for Women's Affairs Khofifah...
Indonesia's State Minister for Women's Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa signed the UN Protocol of the Convention on the Eradication of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian People's Assembly adopted the agreement...
The Albanian People's Assembly adopted the agreement signed in Bern on February 29, 2000 between the Albanian Government and the Swiss Federal Council
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The Libyan Justice Secretary gave his Bulgarian counterpart...
The Libyan Justice Secretary gave his Bulgarian counterpart guarantees that the Bulgarian medics would be given a fair trial