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
- JANUARY 13, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Steve Edward Roach, 23, white, was put to death by...
Steve Edward Roach, 23, white, was put to death by lethal injection in Greensville Correctional Center
- JANUARY 13, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gary Alan Walker, 46, white, was executed by lethal...
Gary Alan Walker, 46, white, was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- JANUARY 13, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Government coalition member Rinnovamento Italiano senator...
Government coalition member Rinnovamento Italiano senator Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli said the Ankara government's decision to postpone the execution of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan presented a good opportunity to request a moratorium on all death senten
- JANUARY 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, despite being a signatory of the international...
China, despite being a signatory of the international convention on the treatment of refugees, decided to repatriate seven North Koreans who entered Russia in November and were expelled to China (see below)
- JANUARY 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China repatriated Ho Young Il, 30, and six other North...
China repatriated Ho Young Il, 30, and six other North Koreans, who entered Russia in November 1999 and were expelled to China in late December of the same year
- JANUARY 12, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
United Nations investigators opened mass graves thought...
United Nations investigators opened mass graves thought to contain the remains of 18 East Timorese who were tortured and executed by pro-Indonesian militia
- JANUARY 12, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
China returned Ho Young Il, 30, and six other North...
China returned Ho Young Il, 30, and six other North Koreans defectors to North Korea
- JANUARY 12, 2000GhanaDEATH PENALTY
President Jerry John Rawlings, in a gesture of reconciliation...
President Jerry John Rawlings, in a gesture of reconciliation as he neared the end of his final term, offered an apology to those who suffered as a result of the decisions he took during almost two decades of power
- JANUARY 12, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four businessmen had their death sentences upheld by...
Four businessmen had their death sentences upheld by the Ho Chi Minh City Supreme People's Court
- JANUARY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Human Rights Association chairman Husnu Ondul said...
The Human Rights Association chairman Husnu Ondul said that a petition signed by 540,000 people requesting the abolition of the death penalty was submitted to the Assembly chairmanship
- JANUARY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Floodlights were switched on at Rome's Colosseum to...
Floodlights were switched on at Rome's Colosseum to mark Turkey's decision to suspend the process to execute Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey's government coalition decided to postpone hanging...
Turkey's government coalition decided to postpone hanging Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan until a European rights court had given its judgment on the case
- JANUARY 12, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Irate relatives of soldiers slain in action during...
Irate relatives of soldiers slain in action during the PKK terrorist campaign in southeastern Turkey protested against political leaders in Ankara by chanting slogans aimed at them during the funeral of an officer who died during clashes with renegade PKK
- JANUARY 12, 2000DEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 12, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini welcomed the decision...
Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini welcomed the decision of the Turkish coalition government to postpone Kurdistan Worker's Party leader Abdullah Ocalan's execution following a request by the European Court of Human Rights
- JANUARY 11, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Several thousand Kurds held a rally in downtown Yerevan...
Several thousand Kurds held a rally in downtown Yerevan in protest against the capital punishment imposed on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration...
200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration to protest against the death sentence imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Mayors in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast urged government...
Mayors in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast urged government nationalists to wait for a European court ruling before pushing ahead with the execution of condemned Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Spokeswoman for the Worker-Communist Party of Iran...
Spokeswoman for the Worker-Communist Party of Iran Azam Kamguian criticised the Iranian Foreign Minister Dr Kamal Kharrazi's visit to England stating: "Kharrazi is representative of a regime whose record includes over 100,000 executions, torture, imprison
- JANUARY 11, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Some 200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration...
Some 200 Kurds in The Hague joined a Europe-wide demonstration to protest against the death sentence imposed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Several thousands of Kurds held a rally in downtown...
Several thousands of Kurds held a rally in downtown Yerevan in protest against the capital punishment passed on Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 11, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international...
The Kurds of Kazakhstan called on the international community to come to the defence of the leader of the Kurdish liberation movement, Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 10, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced...
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced Sammy Hachim and Khalil Algadba, two Lebanese men, to death for currency trafficking and spying for rebels holding the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 10, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution...
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution for making pornographic films in her home country, was denied refugee status in Australia
- JANUARY 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement...
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement in the 1999 student demonstrations, had their sentences approved by the Supreme Court
- JANUARY 10, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death...
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- JANUARY 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed...
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed that executed prisoners' organs were offered to Hong Kong patients at Guangdong's main transplant hospital for up to $300,000 each
- JANUARY 9, 2000South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its...
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its Chinese counterpart not to repatriate a group of seven North Koreans who had fled their hunger-stricken communist homeland
- JANUARY 9, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against...
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against the death penalty with its 2000 advertising campaign called "We, On Death Row
- JANUARY 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was...
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was his country's international obligation to wait for a European court ruling on the death sentence handed down on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan