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
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Tibet Regional Higher People's Court held a news...
The Tibet Regional Higher People's Court held a news conference on public sentencing rallies held in Lhasa City and the prefectures of Xigaze [Shigatse], Shannan, Qamdo, and Nagqu earlier that day
- JUNE 26, 2001Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced...
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced judgment on numerous cases and sentenced to death several drug traffickers
- JUNE 25, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwanda has appointed a legal reform commission to examine...
Rwanda has appointed a legal reform commission to examine all existing laws in the country as part of an ongoing preparation for a change of government through elections in 2003
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ningbo judicial organs (Zhejiang Province) held a rally...
Ningbo judicial organs (Zhejiang Province) held a rally to try 27 drug suspects
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The city of Wuhan convicted a group of drug offenders,...
The city of Wuhan convicted a group of drug offenders, sentencing 13 of them to death
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard...
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard campaign, five Taiwanese citizens who had gone to mainland China to manufacture, smuggle and deal drugs, were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at an execution field in Xiamen
- JUNE 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, following His Majesty...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, following His Majesty the King's comment in favour of harsh punishment for drug traffickers, said that there will be no more royal pardons in drug cases
- JUNE 25, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 25, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe endorsed an in-house report calling...
The Council of Europe endorsed an in-house report calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Japan and the United States, putting at risk their observer status in the 43-member organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights
- JUNE 25, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Europe's leading human rights institution threatened...
Europe's leading human rights institution threatened to revoke observer status from the United States and Japan unless they stop all executions "without delay" and move to repeal the death penalty
- JUNE 25, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard...
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard campaign in China, five Taiwanese citizens who had gone to mainland China to manufacture, smuggle and deal drugs, were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at an execution field in Xi
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the end of an open trial, the Qujing Intermediate...
At the end of an open trial, the Qujing Intermediate Court held that Luo Wenyun, Li Caijin, Tao Fusheng, Li Lianglou, Wang Deshou and 11 other criminals jointly and separately committed crimes in 12 cases of raping and robbing in places under the jurisdic
- JUNE 25, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment...
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment for drug trafficking, the Chairman of the Ministry's Committee on Drugs Serikkali Mukanov said
- JUNE 25, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based...
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based Radio B92 text web site reported
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court in Beijing upheld the death...
The Supreme People's Court in Beijing upheld the death sentence given to Li Shaoju, a Myanmar [Burma] citizen for drug trafficking
- JUNE 25, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Alla Dudaeva, the widow of the first Chechen president...
Alla Dudaeva, the widow of the first Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev, called on the Nobel Prize Committee to strip Alexander Solzhenitsyn of the title of Nobel laureate because of his speeches in favour of restoring capital punishment for "terrorists"
- JUNE 25, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee approved...
Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee approved a draft law aimed at scrapping the death penalty for deliberate homicide
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on...
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on six drug dealers involved in trafficking 320
- JUNE 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network"...
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network" accused of "armed actions" in Iran including an attack on a senior court official were sentenced to death, the head of Tehran's revolutionary court said
- JUNE 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been...
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been executed for drug trafficking
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province,...
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province, openly ordered the execution of Li Yougao and six others for drugs crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed...
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed after being sentenced at a mass rally in the southwestern city of Chengdu on drug-related crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and...
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and legislators joined thousands of marchers in silence to protest against capital punishment
- JUNE 23, 2001WashingtonDEATH PENALTY
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially...
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially sentenced to death Dayva Cross, 41
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the...
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing
- JUNE 23, 2001DEATH PENALTY
STRASBOURG, FIRST WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
22 June, 2001: Hands off Cain calls for attention to all those executed whose plight is not known to the world.
- JUNE 22, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called...
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called for a global ban on capital punishment at the first world congress against the death penalty