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 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
About 1,000 Kurds demonstrated in Lebanon to mark the...
About 1,000 Kurds demonstrated in Lebanon to mark the first anniversary of the capture of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan by Turkey and to demand his release
- FEBRUARY 16, 2000ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Anthony Lee Chaney, 45, white, was executed by lethal...
Anthony Lee Chaney, 45, white, was executed by lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 15, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Lord David Russel-Johnston, British president of the...
Lord David Russel-Johnston, British president of the council's parliamentary assembly, called for an immediate investigation into "alarming reports from usually reliable sources on the executions of at least 38 civilians, on violence, looting and destruct
- FEBRUARY 15, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Kurds living in Yerevan organized a mass procession...
Kurds living in Yerevan organized a mass procession through Yerevan's streets to mark the first anniversary of the arrest of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 15, 2000ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Two villagers from Chavuma were sentenced to death...
Two villagers from Chavuma were sentenced to death for murder
- FEBRUARY 15, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met with Turkish Foreign...
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem to discuss Turkey's EU candidacy
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Additional District and Sessions Judge of Bhola, Mia...
Additional District and Sessions Judge of Bhola, Mia Mohammad Sharif Hossain convicted Saiful Islam and his second wife Fazilatunessa for murder and sentenced them to death by hanging
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000NepalDEATH PENALTY
U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions Asma...
U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions Asma Jahangir voiced concern over what she said were increasing rights abuses in the Himalayan kingdom's fight with Maoist rebels
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000AzerbaijanDEATH PENALTY
Eldar Zeynalov, director of the Human Rights Resource...
Eldar Zeynalov, director of the Human Rights Resource Centre, said that according to data from the Supreme Court a total of 170 people were executed between 1992 and February 1998
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A ten-year-old-boy, watched by his mother, sister and...
A ten-year-old-boy, watched by his mother, sister and six-year-old brother executed Mohammad Hashem, the man convicted of his father's murder
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Thirteen Afghans appeared in court charged with the...
Thirteen Afghans appeared in court charged with the Ariana hijacking after the Stansted airport four day stand-off
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Special Anti Narcotics court handed out four death...
A Special Anti Narcotics court handed out four death sentences in two separate cases
- FEBRUARY 14, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ali Gh was shot for the murder of Mostafa...
Mohammad Ali Gh was shot for the murder of Mostafa Sharilu, 84, in the city of Khoy
- FEBRUARY 13, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Northern Territory Chief Minister Denis Burke spoke...
Northern Territory Chief Minister Denis Burke spoke out against the death penalty after Western Australia (WA) Premier Richard Court claimed that the death penalty was appropriate in some cases
- FEBRUARY 13, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Two peasants were killed in fresh attacks by the weyane...
Two peasants were killed in fresh attacks by the weyane (Ethiopian government) against the Hadiya people in the southwestern part of the country
- FEBRUARY 13, 2000ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Murder, rape, aggravated robbery, illegal possession...
Murder, rape, aggravated robbery, illegal possession of arms and arson are capital crimes
- FEBRUARY 12, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Florentino Moko Soares, 40, was accused of the possession...
Florentino Moko Soares, 40, was accused of the possession and sale of arms on the East Nusa Tenggara - East Timorese border
- FEBRUARY 12, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
About 16,000 Kurds, from Germany, Belgium, Switzerland,...
About 16,000 Kurds, from Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Britain demonstrated peacefully in Strasbourg, to demand the release of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 12, 2000DEATH PENALTY
EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen expected Turkey to...
EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen expected Turkey to abolish the death penalty during the European Court of Human Rights hearing dealing with the complaint from PKK [Kurdish Workers Party] chief Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
About 16,000 Kurds demonstrated in the French city...
About 16,000 Kurds demonstrated in the French city of Strasbourg to demand the release of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was sentenced to death in Turkey, police said
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch was sentenced to death by...
Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch was sentenced to death by the Botswana High Court at Lobatse, for killing Maria Magdalene Wolmarans the wife of Marthinus Johannes 'Tienie' Wolmarans, the man she later married, on June 26, 1996
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Botswanan High Court sentenced 49-year old Mariette...
The Botswanan High Court sentenced 49-year old Mariette Bosch, a South African woman, to death
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
The EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said he expected...
The EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said he expected Turkey to abolish the death penalty during the European Court of Human Rights hearing that was to hear the complaint from Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) chief, Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
U.S. President Bill Clinton urged Iran not to execute...
U.S. President Bill Clinton urged Iran not to execute three members of the Bahai faith, adding it believed the men were tried solely because of their religious beliefs
- FEBRUARY 11, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced the Innocence...
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced the Innocence Protection Act of 2000 in the U
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Bello,...
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Bello, said that the introduction of full Sharia in any state of the country is unconstitutional, adding the adoption of Sharia would inflict capital punishment on its citizens without written law
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Federal moratorium on executions (House)
Federal moratorium on executions (House)
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch charged that Russian occupying forces...
Human Rights Watch charged that Russian occupying forces executed at least 38 civilians-including two children-in in the Staroproyslovski district of Grozny
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Ali Mohammed Qaddour, 22, was sentenced to death by...
Ali Mohammed Qaddour, 22, was sentenced to death by Tripoli's Criminal Court after he was found guilty of killing and raping the 8-year-old son of his employer in Tripoli
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Philadelphia city council passed a resolution calling...
The Philadelphia city council passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on executions on by a vote of 12-4