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
- AUGUST 10, 2001CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk signed into law a...
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk signed into law a bill passed by the country's legislature to establish a U
- AUGUST 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors,...
Zhuo Changren and Jiang Honjun, two Chinese defectors, were executed for kidnapping and murdering a Taiwanese man in 1991
- AUGUST 10, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Munawar Hussain Munj, a former member of the National...
Munawar Hussain Munj, a former member of the National Assembly (lower house) from the central province of Punjab, was sentenced to death for drug trafficking
- AUGUST 10, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Khwan-on Natthaphon, 27, Was sentenced to death by...
Khwan-on Natthaphon, 27, Was sentenced to death by the High Court after being found guilty of murdering taxi driver Ong Huay Dee
- AUGUST 10, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Supreme Court's decision, Petre Gelbakhiani and Irakli...
Supreme Court's decision, Petre Gelbakhiani and Irakli Dokvadze were sentenced to 12 and a half years of imprisonment after a Supreme Court decision
- AUGUST 9, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported on Afghan Taleban radio that Awlia...
It was reported on Afghan Taleban radio that Awlia Khan was publicly executed in the Sena sports ground in Mazar-e Sharif
- AUGUST 9, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian security court in the West Bank sentenced...
A Palestinian security court in the West Bank sentenced a 43-year-old Palestinian man to death by firing squad for treason and collaborating with the Israeli military
- AUGUST 9, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge ordered a new trial for Missouri death...
A federal judge ordered a new trial for Missouri death row inmate Richard D
- AUGUST 9, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Datin Paduka Hajah Seripah Noli Syed Hussin, a government...
Datin Paduka Hajah Seripah Noli Syed Hussin, a government backbencher, called for the death penalty to be imposed on those convicted of incest, stating that the perpetrators of this crime should be given the heaviest punishment for causing their victims t
- AUGUST 8, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A U.S. official said that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...
A U.S. official said that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban told the United States that a decree issued in June prescribes expulsion, not the death penalty, for foreigners preaching other religions to Afghan Muslims
- AUGUST 8, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement on publicly hanged...
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement on publicly hanged the four men convicted of setting off bombs in the capital and strung their bodies from cranes and a traffic tower in Kabul
- AUGUST 8, 2001United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The UAE introduced environmental laws that include...
The UAE introduced environmental laws that include the death penalty and fines as high as Dh10 million after several vessels ran aground and caused marine environmental disasters in territorial waters
- AUGUST 8, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Anyone found trying to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity...
Anyone found trying to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity - or anyone who converts - faces the death penalty under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law
- AUGUST 8, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Former Rwandan mayor Jean Mpambara pleaded not guilty...
Former Rwandan mayor Jean Mpambara pleaded not guilty to genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- AUGUST 8, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Anti-capital punishment activists praised the recent...
Anti-capital punishment activists praised the recent amendment of the death sentence "as a step in the right direction" but urged the government to abolish the practice entirely
- AUGUST 8, 2001DEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN KABUL
August 9: the ruling Taliban sentenced to death and publicly executed four bandits hanging their bodies from cranes and a traffic tower
- AUGUST 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men...
The head of the Taleban sentenced to death four men for masterminding a number of bomb blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul in November 2000, Afghan Taleban radio said
- AUGUST 7, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the...
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government will do all it can to secure the release of two Australian aid workers, Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested in Afghanistan on August 6
- AUGUST 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf,...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, in an unprecedented visit by the most senior judge in Britain to the People's Republic, attended the Celebration of Sino-Legal Exchange, organised by the British Council and the Chinese Ministry of
- AUGUST 7, 2001CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Cambodia's Constitutional Council approved legislation...
Cambodia's Constitutional Council approved legislation to set up a court to prosecute former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, which was blamed for the deaths of about 1
- AUGUST 7, 2001Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a...
Ten Trinidadian men were sentenced to death after a jury in Port of Spain found them guilty of killing a man they had kidnapped and held for ransom
- AUGUST 7, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf,...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, in an unprecedented visit by the most senior judge in Britain to the People's Republic, attended the Celebration of Sino-Legal Exchange, organised by the British Council and the Chinese Ministry of
- AUGUST 7, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A labourer who was convicted of murder in 1996 escaped...
A labourer who was convicted of murder in 1996 escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal found him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter
- AUGUST 7, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The Attorney-General's Chambers should carry out an...
The Attorney-General's Chambers should carry out an in-depth study before amending the Juvenile Court Act 1948, a lawyer, Karpal Singh, said
- AUGUST 7, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the...
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government will do all it can to secure the release of two Australian aid workers, Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch, arrested in Afghanistan on August 6
- AUGUST 6, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man arrested on suspicion of killing prostitutes...
An Iranian man arrested on suspicion of killing prostitutes in the northeastern city of Mashhad admitted to sexually molesting his victims prior to strangling them to death
- AUGUST 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
According to the independent 'Monitor' newspaper, 52...
According to the independent 'Monitor' newspaper, 52 death sentences have been carried out in Uganda since President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) came to power in 1986
- AUGUST 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Leading human rights campaigner Livingstone Sewanyana...
Leading human rights campaigner Livingstone Sewanyana called for the Ugandan government to abolish the death penalty as part of its ongoing constitutional review
- AUGUST 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set...
Jealousy and a desire for revenge drove a man to set off a blast which killed 47 people in a northwestern Chinese village of cave dwellings in July, police said
- AUGUST 6, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Rashid Ahmed Saleh executed for killing Hassan Ali...
Rashid Ahmed Saleh executed for killing Hassan Ali Abdullah and Salem Hassan Said