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
- APRIL 25, 2001MadagascarDEATH PENALTY
Madagascar abstained from the resolution on the death...
Madagascar abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25 , 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Burundi voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Burundi voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia voted against the resolution on the death...
Malaysia voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesia voted against the resolution on the death...
Indonesia voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnam voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Vietnam voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambia abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
Zambia abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25 , 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001SenegalDEATH PENALTY
Senegal abstained from the resolution on the death...
Senegal abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001DEATH PENALTY
USA voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
USA voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syria voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Syria voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death...
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25 , 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Japan voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Japan voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia voted against the resolution on the death...
Saudi Arabia voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death...
Pakistan voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Swaziland voted against the resolution on the death...
Swaziland voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Nigeria voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25 , 2001 (2001/68)
- APRIL 25, 2001DEATH PENALTY
UN Commission approves anti death penalty resolution.
April 25, 2001: the UN Human Rights Commission has approved a resolution for a moratorium on capital executions and against the death penalty.
- APRIL 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Andaila Mohamad, 40; Wahab Medina, 40; Chab Abdullanaf...
Andaila Mohamad, 40; Wahab Medina, 40; Chab Abdullanaf Umah, 27, all Ghanaian nationals were sentenced to death on drug related charges
- APRIL 24, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
A Cook County jury sentenced to death Samuel Karim,...
A Cook County jury sentenced to death Samuel Karim, 24, for killling (on March 18, 1996) Melvin Harris, 37, and Jamar Parker, 22
- APRIL 24, 2001PolandDEATH PENALTY
An April survey by the CBOS, the public polling institution,...
An April survey by the CBOS, the public polling institution, polled sixty-nine per cent of respondents in favour of having the death penalty restored, and 21 per cent against, whilst 10 per cent had no opinion on the subject
- APRIL 24, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced two drug dealers, Islom...
The Supreme Court sentenced two drug dealers, Islom Kadirov and Kutbiddin Zaripov, to death
- APRIL 24, 2001ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) said...
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) said the death penalty should be abolished, and that no executions should be carried out until this is done
- APRIL 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution...
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution (21 in favour, 17 against and 15 abstentions) tabled by the European Union expressing concern for continued human rights violations in Iran
- APRIL 24, 2001ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
Connecticut residents remain solidly in favor of the...
Connecticut residents remain solidly in favor of the death penalty, but with some reservations, a new poll shows
- APRIL 24, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International Report Finds Increase in Death...
Amnesty International Report Finds Increase in Death Penalty "Volunteers" A new report about volunteers and the death penalty by Amnesty International, "The Illusion of Control," found that since the death penalty was reinstated, 89 of the 707 executions
- APRIL 24, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Hassan Khalil Ahmad, a Sudanese man, was sentenced...
Hassan Khalil Ahmad, a Sudanese man, was sentenced to death in Lebanon for murdering and robbing a man in Beirut two years ago
- APRIL 24, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Beirut criminal court sentenced Hassan Khalil Ahmad,...
A Beirut criminal court sentenced Hassan Khalil Ahmad, a Sudanese man, to death after finding him guilty of murdering and robbing an Eritrean man in Beirut two years ago
- APRIL 23, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
John Myles was sentenced to death for the April 11,...
John Myles was sentenced to death for the April 11, 1996, shooting of Harry Byrd, 19
- APRIL 23, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Human rights groups in Thailand started a petition...
Human rights groups in Thailand started a petition to get the government to stop publicising executions of drug traffickers and murderers, describing the act as inhumane