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 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court is now...
The Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court is now considering replacing firing squads with lethal injections when carrying out the death penalty
- JANUARY 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China should halt the execution of Hong Kong residents...
China should halt the execution of Hong Kong residents convicted of capital offences, an alliance of civic groups fighting the mainland's death penalty said in a petition presented to the SAR [Special Administrative Region] Security Bureau
- JANUARY 7, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Central Jakarta District Court began the trial...
The Central Jakarta District Court began the trial relating to the drive-by shooting of Supreme Justice M
- JANUARY 7, 2002Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China should halt the execution of Hong Kong residents...
China should halt the execution of Hong Kong residents convicted of capital offences, an alliance of civic groups fighting the mainland's death penalty said in a petition presented to the SAR [Special Administrative Region] Security Bureau
- JANUARY 7, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Delhi Police Force acquired a new weapon to...
India's Delhi Police Force acquired a new weapon to fight organised crime with the introduction of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act or MCOCA in Delhi
- JANUARY 7, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Police in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi regency Poso...
Police in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi regency Poso burned thousands of weapons surrendered by Christians and Muslims in an effort to end a three-year-old sectarian conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 lives
- JANUARY 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Czech Republic's Senate deputy chairman Jan Ruml...
The Czech Republic's Senate deputy chairman Jan Ruml (Freedom Union) expressed his protest against the detention of the Chinese religious movement Falun Gong adherents to the Chinese Ambassador in Prague, Ruml's aide Jan Holub told CTK
- JANUARY 7, 2002DEATH PENALTY
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign...
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign minister Josep Pique announced his plans for a tour the following week of Middle Eastern countries in an effort to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- JANUARY 7, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the coalition's...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the coalition's senior partner MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) Devlet Bahceli said the MHP backs the execution of death sentences in terror crimes
- JANUARY 7, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign...
European Union Council President and Spanish foreign minister Josep Pique announced his plans for a tour the following week of Middle Eastern countries in an effort to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- JANUARY 7, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A Turkish court sentenced three men to death on charges...
A Turkish court sentenced three men to death on charges linked to the killings of prominent supporters of a secular state, including a former culture minister and an investigative journalist
- JANUARY 7, 2002LatviaDEATH PENALTY
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers' committee approved...
The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers' committee approved amendments to several laws in order to harmonize these laws with the international protocol aimed at the abolition of the death penalty
- JANUARY 7, 2002DEATH PENALTY
China: death penalty to religious exponents
January 7, 2002: two chinese religious exponents condamned to death, another at risk
- JANUARY 6, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
Eight Iraqi citizens were executed in the province...
Eight Iraqi citizens were executed in the province of Basra on charges of links with opposition forces, said the human right[s] office of the Communist Party
- JANUARY 6, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Judge Donald Hudson sentenced Luther Casteel, 43, to...
Judge Donald Hudson sentenced Luther Casteel, 43, to death for a shooting spree that left 2 people dead and 16 others injured on April 13 2001
- JANUARY 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy,...
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, said that a Hong Kong man Lai Kwon-Keung, 38, faces the death penalty in China for allegedly smuggling thousands of Bibles across the border to an outlawed Christian group
- JANUARY 6, 2002Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy,...
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, said that a Hong Kong man Lai Kwon-Keung, 38, faces the death penalty in China for allegedly smuggling thousands of Bibles across the border to an outlawed Christian group
- JANUARY 6, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
More than 3 million Thais, including students, are...
More than 3 million Thais, including students, are abusing narcotics, Justice Minister Pongthep Thepkanjana said
- JANUARY 6, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a...
An Iranian man was publicly hanged for murdering a woman and two others were hanged for rape, newspapers said
- JANUARY 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China vowed its "strike hard" anti-crime drive would...
China vowed its "strike hard" anti-crime drive would remain a priority in 2003, with busting corrupt officials a top priority, official media reported
- JANUARY 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily newspaper reported that Shijiazhuang...
The Legal Daily newspaper reported that Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hebei Province, sentenced Zhao Jianlin and Zhao Jianbo to death for organising criminal gangs
- JANUARY 5, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese Ministry of Justice said that it had received...
The Sudanese Ministry of Justice said that it had received a letter from the European Union urging the government to pardon five people who had been sentenced to death or cross amputations
- JANUARY 4, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Judge Joseph Madenspacher affirmed death sentence for...
Judge Joseph Madenspacher affirmed death sentence for Tedor Davido, who was convicted of 1st-degree murder Dec
- JANUARY 4, 2002OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 4, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian state security court sentenced a policeman...
A Palestinian state security court sentenced a policeman to death for killing one comrade and wounding another in an unexplained shooting spree hours earlier, the Wafa news agency said
- JANUARY 3, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said capital punishment...
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said capital punishment would be lifted and that he did not have any doubts about that issue
- JANUARY 3, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spanish Secretary of State for European Affairs Ramon...
Spanish Secretary of State for European Affairs Ramon de Miguel said there will be no turning back in EU cooperation against terrorism
- JANUARY 3, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Juan Roberto Melendez was released from Union Correctional...
Juan Roberto Melendez was released from Union Correctional Institution after having spent 17 years and 8 months on Florida's death row in Raiford for a murder to which another man had confessed
- JANUARY 3, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was hanged in northern Nigeria...
A convicted murderer was hanged in northern Nigeria in the country's first execution under Muslim sharia law, which has sparked riots in the West African country
- JANUARY 3, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Hoping that an accused who had murdered his own mother...
Hoping that an accused who had murdered his own mother and the entire family of his brother over a land dispute might repent "for rest of life for commission of such ghastly act", the Supreme Court commuted his death sentence to a life term