Archive timeline
2002
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2002, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2002
- JANUARY 14, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Three British al-Qaeda fighters are facing the death penalty
Three British al-Qaeda fighters are facing the death penalty
- JANUARY 14, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The judges of Sharia Court of Appeal, Sokoto, were...
The judges of Sharia Court of Appeal, Sokoto, were called upon to disregard the sentence to death by stoning passed on Malama Safiya Hussaini by the Upper Sharia Court, Gwadabawa, for it's failure to abide by Islamic law
- JANUARY 14, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Safiya Hussaini won a temporary reprieve from death...
Safiya Hussaini won a temporary reprieve from death by stoning for adultery under Islamic sharia law
- JANUARY 14, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Three British al-Qaeda fighters are facing the death penalty
Three British al-Qaeda fighters are facing the death penalty
- JANUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran executed four men, one of them in public
Iran executed four men, one of them in public
- JANUARY 14, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran
A man was sentenced to death in Ghom, Iran
- JANUARY 14, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
United Nations officials say a special court being...
United Nations officials say a special court being set up in Sierra Leone to try people accused of war crimes during the decade-long civil war will be able to give out jail terms but not death sentences
- JANUARY 14, 2002Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
United Nations officials say a special court being...
United Nations officials say a special court being set up in Sierra Leone to try people accused of war crimes during the decade-long civil war will be able to give out jail terms but not death sentences
- JANUARY 14, 2002DEATH PENALTY
SAFIYA’S STONING APPEAL DELAYED
January 14, 2002: an Islamic court in northern Nigeria has postponed an appeal hearing on behalf of Safiya Husaini, who was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of adultery. The hearing will now take place on 18 March.
- JANUARY 13, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism...
Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ikram of the Special Anti-Terrorism Court in Faisalabad, gave the death sentence to Muhammad Ali for the murder of Muhammad Khan on March 31, 1999 during a robbery on the victim's property
- JANUARY 13, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A group of European parliamentarians sent an urgent...
A group of European parliamentarians sent an urgent appeal to safe Safiya Hussaini, the woman who risks stoning in Nigeria
- JANUARY 13, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Possession of arms is an offence punishable by death
Possession of arms is an offence punishable by death
- JANUARY 13, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's newly appointed chief justice said that...
Afghanistan's newly appointed chief justice said that he would give the death sentence to Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar if they were brought to his court
- JANUARY 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guo Long Hai, 46, the director of a state-owned company...
Guo Long Hai, 46, the director of a state-owned company in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou, was executed after a tribunal in the city of Nanzhou found him guilty of raping 15 women and murdering 14 of them from 1990 to 2001
- JANUARY 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated...
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated western media reports about the status of Muslims in China, stressing that his government has taken the necessary measures to guarantee the rights of 20 million Muslims in China and their freedom
- JANUARY 13, 2002GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Germany has issued international arrest warrants for...
Germany has issued international arrest warrants for three alleged accomplices of the September 11 hijackers
- JANUARY 13, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Germany has issued international arrest warrants for...
Germany has issued international arrest warrants for three alleged accomplices of the September 11 hijackers
- JANUARY 13, 2002EgyptDEATH PENALTY
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated...
The Chinese Ambassador to Egypt, Liu Xiao Ming, repudiated western media reports about the status of Muslims in China, stressing that his government has taken the necessary measures to guarantee the rights of 20 million Muslims in China and their freedom
- JANUARY 13, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Yousef Moini, a bank robber, was hanged in public in...
Yousef Moini, a bank robber, was hanged in public in the northeastern city of Mashhad
- JANUARY 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, which executes more people than the rest of...
China, which executes more people than the rest of the world put together, held its first public discussion of the death penalty, where legal experts called for the abolition of the capital punishment
- JANUARY 12, 2002SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Central Board of the Real Slovak National Party...
The Central Board of the Real Slovak National Party (PSNS) said that during its campaign for the upcoming general election it is ready to open the question of reintroducing capital punishment
- JANUARY 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 12, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's chief justice says the divine law has...
Afghanistan's chief justice says the divine law has to be applied if proof of a crime is furnished
- JANUARY 12, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court handed down four death sentences...
A Vietnamese court handed down four death sentences for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 12, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other...
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other MEPs wrote to the Nigerian Ambassador to the EU, Mr Akunwafor, demanding that the execution of Safiya Husaini Tungar-Tudu by stoning, for having committed adultery, is not carried out
- JANUARY 12, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation...
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation that a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning in the African country would be spared, Soula Panaretou, a member of the Coalition of the Left and Progress, said
- JANUARY 12, 2002GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other...
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other MEPs wrote to the Nigerian Ambassador to the EU, Mr Akunwafor, demanding that the execution of Safiya Husaini Tungar-Tudu by stoning, for having committed adultery, is not carried out
- JANUARY 12, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation...
Nigeria's embassy in Athens told a protest delegation that a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning in the African country would be spared, Soula Panaretou, a member of the Coalition of the Left and Progress, said
- JANUARY 12, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other...
Greek Socialist, Anna Karamanou, and around sixty other MEPs wrote to the Nigerian Ambassador to the EU, Mr Akunwafor, demanding that the execution of Safiya Husaini Tungar-Tudu by stoning, for having committed adultery, is not carried out
- JANUARY 11, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Young Liberals state convention in Queensland was to...
Young Liberals state convention in Queensland was to discuss a motion for capital punishment for murderers and child sex offenders