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
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss met with Turkish...
Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem to discuss human rights issues
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Ministry of National Defence (MND) denied that...
The Ministry of National Defence (MND) denied that it had ever disclosed any of its intelligence sources in its intelligence reports
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Amnon Cohen, the man who asked to become the first...
Amnon Cohen, the man who asked to become the first Israeli sentenced to death, expressed deep regret and asked his family for forgiveness at the Tel Aviv District Court
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed...
Armenian justice minister David Arutyunyan expressed support for the demand by the CE to repeal the death penalty as capital punishment in Armenia
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish...
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh met with Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and Foreign Minister Ismail Cem during a visit to Ankara
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources...
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation wanted the Supreme Court to order Mugabe's office to release the reports of two commissions of inquiry he appointed: one of these covered mass executions, disappearances, illegal arrests
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced...
61 percent of Czechs want the death penalty to be reintroduced while 26 percent disagree with it, according to a poll conducted by the IVVM polling agency
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Mohammadi's conviction for the riots in the summer...
Akbar Mohammadi's conviction for the riots in the summer of 1999, at Tehran University, was overruled by the Supreme Court following strong International pressure in Mohammadi's favour
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh,...
The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, visited the Human Rights Association, where she was greeted by its former president, Akin Birdal
- FEBRUARY 21, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
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- FEBRUARY 20, 2000AustriaDEATH PENALTY
Austria's new government including the radical Freedom...
Austria's new government including the radical Freedom Party, led by the controversial Joerg Haider, was not well received by the European Union's other 14 member nations, who condemned the new coalition government with an unprecedented unanimity
- FEBRUARY 20, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II appealed to Texas Governor, George W
Pope John Paul II appealed to Texas Governor, George W
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Seo Yoon Bum's five-year-old grandson was killed when...
Seo Yoon Bum's five-year-old grandson was killed when a car plowed through a group of pedestrians in Seoul in 1991
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A group of 92 South Korean legislators presented a...
A group of 92 South Korean legislators presented a bill to the National Assembly that called for capital punishment sentences to be abolished and be replaced with life terms in prison sentences
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
According to a Gallup survey conducted in December,...
According to a Gallup survey conducted in December, 43% of South Koreans oppose the death penalty (50% were in favour), up from just 20% in 1994
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals...
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika said Russia has 610 criminals sentenced to lifetime incarceration, although jails for lifetime imprisonment have place only for 300, others were sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Chechen rebels passed their second death sentence...
The Chechen rebels passed their second death sentence in a week on Vladimir Putin via the Internet
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Ukrainian newspaper 'Segodnya' said Chechen field...
The Ukrainian newspaper 'Segodnya' said Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev "or his supporters" had announced a fatwa on an Internet website identified as www
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, under public pressure...
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, under public pressure for a quick death sentence and execution, approved of a speedy trial in the Nablus state security court for Bilal Shaqo, 22, who was accused of raping a four-year-old girl
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Afghan citizens, Nurkhonboy U
Two Afghan citizens, Nurkhonboy U
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saqr ibn Muhamad ibn Marzouk Al-Otaibi was executed...
Saqr ibn Muhamad ibn Marzouk Al-Otaibi was executed in Taif after being convicted of shooting to death his wife, Masbouba bint Daheem ibn Marzouk Al-Otaibi, her father, Daheem ibn Marzouk and her mother, Haya bint Lafa Al-Mutairi
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Afghan citizens, Nurkhonboy U
Two Afghan citizens, Nurkhonboy U
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Van Trong said around...
Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Van Trong said around 10,000 to 14,000 prisoners were to be freed in amnesties in 2000
- FEBRUARY 18, 2000MissouriDEATH PENALTY
When all the new evidence was presented at re-trial,...
When all the new evidence was presented at re-trial, the jury acquitted Eric Clemmons in 3 hours
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to censure China at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Isamu Hirano,53, was sentenced to death by the Utsunomiya...
Isamu Hirano,53, was sentenced to death by the Utsunomiya District Court for killing his former employer and his employer's wife, stealing their money, and setting fire to their house in Ichikai, Tochigi Prefecture in 1994
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Nepalese nationals, Til Bahadur Bhandari, 24, and...
Two Nepalese nationals, Til Bahadur Bhandari, 24, and Bahadur Gurung, 32, were sentenced to death by the Tangerang District Court for drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000KansasDEATH PENALTY
During a news conference, Kansas Governor Bill Graves...
During a news conference, Kansas Governor Bill Graves noted the importance of making sure innocent people were not convicted and urged governors to take another look at their death penalty systems
- FEBRUARY 17, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Benetton group said it would continue its advertising...
The Benetton group said it would continue its advertising campaign featuring death row convicts despite the American store chain Sears' decision to take the Benetton brand off its shelves
- FEBRUARY 16, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
In a briefing to Members of the European Parliament,...
In a briefing to Members of the European Parliament, Commissioner Chris Patten acknowledged that much remained to be done in the human rights field, especially in what he felt were the problem areas of the death penalty, Cuba and China