Archive timeline
2001
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2001, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2001
- OCTOBER 4, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The judge presiding over the trial of two Australian...
The judge presiding over the trial of two Australian aid workers in Kabul has been named as an associate of Osama bin Laden and placed on a Reserve Bank of Australia financial blacklist
- OCTOBER 4, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A female British journalist arrested by the Taliban...
A female British journalist arrested by the Taliban for illegally entering Afghanistan will face trial for "violating the laws" the country, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported
- OCTOBER 4, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The judge presiding over the trial of two Australian...
The judge presiding over the trial of two Australian aid workers in Kabul has been named as an associate of Osama bin Laden and placed on a Reserve Bank of Australia financial blacklist
- OCTOBER 4, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Many analysts are sceptical that the amended constitution...
Many analysts are sceptical that the amended constitution would lead to dramatic changes
- OCTOBER 4, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican...
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican citizens will require a guarantee the prisoner will not be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison
- OCTOBER 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The 24th conference of European Justice Ministers opened...
The 24th conference of European Justice Ministers opened in Moscow
- OCTOBER 4, 2001TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The high court in Tanzania 's northern town of Moshi...
The high court in Tanzania 's northern town of Moshi ordered the government to award 300 million Tanzanian shillings ( 337,078 U
- OCTOBER 4, 2001PortugalDEATH PENALTY
Portugal's parliament approved constitutional changes,...
Portugal's parliament approved constitutional changes, including making extradition easier, to improve cooperation in the fight against terrorism
- OCTOBER 4, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
In a unique experiment in grassroots justice, millions...
In a unique experiment in grassroots justice, millions of Rwandans went to the polls to elect the 260,000 men and women who will preside over the community courts that judge thousands of suspected perpetrators of the genocide of 1994
- OCTOBER 4, 2001BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it calls on the Vietnamese authorities to abolish the death sentence (and, in the meantime, guarantee the implementation of a moratorium) and to ratify the second optional protocol to the International
- OCTOBER 4, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it calls on the Vietnamese authorities to abolish the death sentence (and, in the meantime, guarantee the implementation of a moratorium) and to ratify the second optional protocol to the International
- OCTOBER 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's former prosecutor-general Ayatollah Morteza...
Iran's former prosecutor-general Ayatollah Morteza Moqtada'i defended the execution of Islamic punishments in public, saying they help deter the rise of crime in society
- OCTOBER 4, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The ruling Millennium Democratic Party urged the government...
The ruling Millennium Democratic Party urged the government to take sterner measures against organized crime, Party Spokesman Chon Yong-hak said
- OCTOBER 4, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Ah Kow was hanged for drug related crimes
Ah Kow was hanged for drug related crimes
- OCTOBER 4, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Zainuzzaman Mohammed Jasadi was hanged for murder
Zainuzzaman Mohammed Jasadi was hanged for murder
- OCTOBER 4, 2001DEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN
October 4, 2001: last Sunday, the trial of eight detained aid workers accused of preaching Christianity resumed.
- OCTOBER 3, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Political writer and scientist Leonid Radzikhovsky...
Political writer and scientist Leonid Radzikhovsky said Russia not only has vast experience of combating terrorism but it has much more political will and resolve in the actual struggle than the West
- OCTOBER 3, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
Michael Roberts, convicted for the Feb
Michael Roberts, convicted for the Feb
- OCTOBER 3, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
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- OCTOBER 3, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court on Karachi sentenced Shaikh...
An anti-terrorism court on Karachi sentenced Shaikh Muhammad Amjad to death on charges of killing his next-door neighbour Barrister Shakir Latif
- OCTOBER 2, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A woman was sentenced to life in jail for possessing...
A woman was sentenced to life in jail for possessing methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- OCTOBER 2, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Kofri Mustafar, 26, an unemployed man was sentenced...
Kofri Mustafar, 26, an unemployed man was sentenced to death in Kuantan after being guilty of murdering Jemilah Idris, 36, a woman who refused to let him marry her daughter, on July 23, 1999
- OCTOBER 2, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Six men were arrested in the southeast of the country...
Six men were arrested in the southeast of the country for distributing leaflets in support of the king and the US, Taliban sources said
- OCTOBER 2, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence imposed on Ajit Seth, the Paschim...
The death sentence imposed on Ajit Seth, the Paschim Vihar resident who had burnt two small children alive, was commuted to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court
- OCTOBER 2, 2001SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden will have to negotiate with the USA on an exemption...
Sweden will have to negotiate with the USA on an exemption from the death penalty in the event of a suspected terrorist being extradited to the USA, Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said
- OCTOBER 2, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
US embassy diplomats in Uganda had appeared before...
US embassy diplomats in Uganda had appeared before the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee and urged parliament to pass the bill expeditiously that seeks to impose a mandatory death sentence for terrorists and any person who aids, finances or supports
- OCTOBER 2, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Mike Easley commuted to life in prison the death...
Gov. Mike Easley commuted to life in prison the death sentence of Robert Bacon Jr. Robert Bacon Jr
- OCTOBER 1, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Disgraced former Philippine President Joseph Estrada...
Disgraced former Philippine President Joseph Estrada made a late appearance on the first day of his trial on the charge of economic plunder after saying he would not show up
- OCTOBER 1, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two...
A court in Almaty sentenced to death by shooting two of the three men accused of cannibalism
- OCTOBER 1, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the work of former agency serologist Kenneth Ede after a recent DNA test contradicted testimony he gave in a 1983 murder trial