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
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The banned extremist outfit Maoist Communist Centre...
The banned extremist outfit Maoist Communist Centre called upon intelligentsia, students and landless labourers to oppose the death sentences given to its members and demanded their unconditional release
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The eight foreign aid workers locked in a Taliban jail...
The eight foreign aid workers locked in a Taliban jail and facing trial on charges of spreading Christianity - a capital offence - have been left behind in a rush to leave Afghanistan before a possible U
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people who robbed a bank in central China's Henan...
Six people who robbed a bank in central China's Henan Province were sentenced to death and deprived of all property
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhong Hongzhi was sentenced to death with two years'...
Zhong Hongzhi was sentenced to death with two years' probation, and an accomplice, Yang Meishou, to three years imprisonment with three years' probation, for forging value-added invoices totalling millions of yuan
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to...
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to death for a failed plot to assassinate the central African nation's president, Joseph Kabila
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The president of the opposition Greater Romania Party...
The president of the opposition Greater Romania Party (PRM) Corneliu Vadim Tudor called for the introduction of the death penalty for child murderers and rapists in a range of Romanian counties and for a certain period of time
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001DEATH PENALTY
SILENCE IN RESPECT FOR VICTIMS OF ATTACK ON USA
September 14, 2001: Hands Off Cain will be in front of the American Embassy in Rome today at 12.00 CET to observe three minutes of silence in respect for the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Iain Duncan Smith was elected leader of the Conservative...
Iain Duncan Smith was elected leader of the Conservative Party, after getting the backing of 61% of the vote in the first ever leadership contest decided by party members
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Courts across China were urged by the country's supreme...
Courts across China were urged by the country's supreme court to use lethal injections for executions in capital punishment cases
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001LithuaniaDEATH PENALTY
Seven lawmakers in the Lithuanian parliament, in response...
Seven lawmakers in the Lithuanian parliament, in response to tragic developments in US, called for the re-instatement of death penalty and related constitutional changes, and argued that this would not harm the Baltic state's EU bid
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Tehran's Justice administration hit back at those...
The Tehran's Justice administration hit back at those opposing the public execution of the court sentences, saying their opposition is "politically-biased"
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The reformist Iranian journalist, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,...
The reformist Iranian journalist, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, serving a 30-month jail term since April 2000 for allegedly insulting Islam, was freed on bail, sources close to him said
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers one week after his brother ended up at the gallows on the same charge
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The government approved the amendments to the Explosive...
The government approved the amendments to the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and the Explosive Substances (Amendment) Bill, 1999 to enable the central government to include any new special category explosive substance and alter the minimum punishment to 1
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of...
The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of Toro, John Sanyu Katuramu, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kampala for the murder of Toro's Prince Happy Kijanangoma, 'The New Vision' government-owned newspaper reported
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sharia Court in Birnin-Kebbi sentenced 35-year-old...
The Sharia Court in Birnin-Kebbi sentenced 35-year-old Attahiru Umaru to death by stoning for forcibly having anal sex with a seven-year-old boy in the Zamfara state capital
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Abu-Jamal team releases video of confessor
Abu-Jamal team releases video of confessor
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Rick Perry, in the wake of the terrorist attacks,...
Gov. Rick Perry, in the wake of the terrorist attacks, issued a 30-day reprieve to halt the scheduled Tuesday night execution of Jeffery Tucker. "This reprieve is granted due to the tragedy that has occurred in Washington, D
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Eight foreign aid workers on trial in Afghanistan for...
Eight foreign aid workers on trial in Afghanistan for promoting Christianity have told the ruling Taliban's Supreme Court they want to hire one lawyer to defend them as a group, an American diplomat said
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran publicly hanged a man for kidnapping and raping...
Iran publicly hanged a man for kidnapping and raping a teenage girl
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
An appeal against the death sentence handed down to...
An appeal against the death sentence handed down to one of the Tokyo twins who brutally killed two men to take over their successful S&M club business in 1995 was rejected by the Tokyo High Court
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception...
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception in the issue of capital punishment, the leader of the faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Aghvan Vardanyan, said
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pardoned Abdallah...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pardoned Abdallah Nasur, a governor under former military ruler Idi Amin of the then Central Province
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted an indefinite...
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted an indefinite stay to Mexican National Gerardo Valdez to consider what it termed to be a "unique and serious matter" of international law
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed some 24 people after a public sentencing...
China executed some 24 people after a public sentencing rally
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
More than 180 delegates from 95 countries will convene...
More than 180 delegates from 95 countries will convene in Johannesburg on September 16 night for Prison Fellowship International's (PFI) Council Meeting
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting...
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting a legal challenge against the U
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting...
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting a legal challenge against the U
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Thirteen Hong Kong people arrested over what is believed...
Thirteen Hong Kong people arrested over what is believed to be a world record seizure of almost 17 tonnes of the drug "ice" are facing the death penalty in a trial that starts on September 11 in Shenzhen
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Thirteen Hong Kong people arrested over what is believed...
Thirteen Hong Kong people arrested over what is believed to be a world record seizure of almost 17 tonnes of the drug "ice" are facing the death penalty in a trial that starts on September 11 in Shenzhen