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 2, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Fujian Province in eastern China sentenced...
A court in Fujian Province in eastern China sentenced a man to death on two counts of sabotaging a high-voltage power line, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported
- AUGUST 2, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague sentenced General Radislav Krstic to 46 years in prison for participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave
- AUGUST 2, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague found General Radislav Krstic guilty of participating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave, a haven that was under United Nations control until it came unde
- AUGUST 1, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdol Ghani was executed in Ghazni Province's Qarabagh...
Abdol Ghani was executed in Ghazni Province's Qarabagh District
- AUGUST 1, 2001BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana...
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana to face a murder charge, Northern Province police said
- AUGUST 1, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana...
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana to face a murder charge, Northern Province police said
- AUGUST 1, 2001ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana...
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana to face a murder charge, Northern Province police said
- AUGUST 1, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A new study of capital punishment suggests that it...
A new study of capital punishment suggests that it is applied unequally in rural and urban areas and that defendants whose victims are affluent are more likely to get the death penalty
- AUGUST 1, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Izmir Forestry Regional Directorate's Protection Branch...
Izmir Forestry Regional Directorate's Protection Branch Director Ilhami Alkan said that people who burned down forests for terrorist purposes would be sentenced to 24-30 years in prison and would be fined TL 34
- AUGUST 1, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Colonel Peter Habimana, leader of the [rebel] Rwandan...
Colonel Peter Habimana, leader of the [rebel] Rwandan Liberation Army, was sentenced to death together with another 14 defendants found guilty of involvement in the 1994 genocide
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the...
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the Constitutional Review Commission that 55 prisoners were hanged in the last 10 years for murder, rape or aggravated robbery
- AUGUST 1, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Field commanders of the Palestinian intifada declared...
Field commanders of the Palestinian intifada declared open season on suspected traitors in their ranks
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda
- AUGUST 1, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Two students from the Islamic Institute of Dushanbe...
Two students from the Islamic Institute of Dushanbe were convicted and executed for the October 2000 bombing of a Dushanbe Protestant church that killed seven persons
- AUGUST 1, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
A case of a man executed although suffering from a...
A case of a man executed although suffering from a mental illness
- AUGUST 1, 2001DEATH PENALTY
MORE DEATH SENTENCES FOR PALESTINIAN COLLABORATORS
August 1, 2001: Hands Off Cain is calling on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to stop executions after three more Palestinians were condemned to death yesterday. A protest will be held outside the Italian Prime Minister’s Office tomorrow as A
- AUGUST 1, 2001DEATH PENALTY
MORE DEATH SENTENCES FOR PALESTINIAN COLLABORATORS
August 2, 2001: another Palestinian was condemned to death in Nablus for collaborating with Israel. This is the fourth death sentence for collaboration in three days.
- JULY 31, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian Authority security court sentenced three...
A Palestinian Authority security court sentenced three Palestinian men, Samir Abu-Zeina, Amjad Hafarza and Hussein Abu-Alayoun, to death for collaboration with Israel over the killing in December of a senior Fatah official
- JULY 31, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi man convicted...
The Saudi Press Agency reported that a Saudi man convicted of battering his father to death with a tent pole had been executed
- JULY 31, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death three Burmese men found guilty of possessing 190,000 speed pills in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, in March 2000
- JULY 31, 2001GuineaDEATH PENALTY
State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15...
State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15 people to death for instigating ethnic and religious bloodletting which killed 34 people in the West African country in the year 2000
- JULY 31, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to investigate whether the death sentence given to Rehmat Shah Afridi, the owner and chief editor of a Pakistan daily on charges of drug trafficking was politic
- JULY 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three...
A Thai court sentenced 14 drug dealers, including three women, in four separate trials, to death despite criticism from international human right organizations that the court has become an assembly line of death
- JULY 31, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A memo by a lab scientist for the Oklahoma City Police...
A memo by a lab scientist for the Oklahoma City Police Department refers to the case of Malcolm Rent Johnson, who was executed on Jan
- JULY 31, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to investigate whether the death sentence given to Rahmad Shah Afridi, the owner and chief editor of a Pakistan daily on charges of drug trafficking was politic
- JULY 30, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two Yemenis, Ahmed Muhammad Saleh and Abdullah Muhammad...
Two Yemenis, Ahmed Muhammad Saleh and Abdullah Muhammad Ahmed, executed by firing squad in Sana'a for two separate murders, the state prosecutor said
- JULY 30, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
It is estimated that there are about 50 death-row inmates...
It is estimated that there are about 50 death-row inmates in Japan
- JULY 30, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A six-year-old Nigerian boy faces a possible death...
A six-year-old Nigerian boy faces a possible death sentence after a four-month-old girl drowned in his care
- JULY 30, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Andrey Khvan was sentenced to death and four others...
Andrey Khvan was sentenced to death and four others to long prison terms for burglary and murder in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, the Uzbek newspaper Vecherniy Tashkent reported
- JULY 30, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan is looking at tightening procedures for harvesting...
Taiwan is looking at tightening procedures for harvesting organs from executed prisoners in reaction to allegations of human rights abuses, an official with the Bureau of Medical Affairs under the Department of Health, Chen I-an, said