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
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court awarded capital punishment to seven people...
A court awarded capital punishment to seven people in a murder case
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A tribunal has turned down the appeal from Abdullah...
A tribunal has turned down the appeal from Abdullah Shah a notorious Afghan commander sentenced to death for killing dozens of people, including three of his wives and five of his children
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002SpainDEATH PENALTY
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive...
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive Patty Hearst kidnapper - unless the US guarantees he will not be executed
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive...
South Africa is refusing to extradite the last fugitive Patty Hearst kidnapper - unless the US guarantees he will not be executed
- NOVEMBER 12, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man found guilty of kidnapping and rape...
An Iranian man found guilty of kidnapping and rape was publicly hanged in the central holy city of Qom, the Abrar newspaper reported
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Miss United States Rebekah Rebels said: "I decided...
Miss United States Rebekah Rebels said: "I decided that the best thing for us to do was to take a stance, a positive stance and come over to Africa and support her (Amina Lawal), instead of staying at home
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian officials celebrated as a planeload of beauty...
Nigerian officials celebrated as a planeload of beauty queens arrived for the Miss World pageant which had been threatened by a mass boycott over the country's Islamic stoning sentences
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian officials celebrated on Monday as a planeload...
Nigerian officials celebrated on Monday as a planeload of beauty queens arrived for the Miss World pageant, which had been threatened by a mass boycott over the country's Islamic stoning sentences
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Some political leaders in Pakistan urged the US to...
Some political leaders in Pakistan urged the US to spare Mir Aimal Kasi's life
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
More than 200 people protested in Pakistan against...
More than 200 people protested in Pakistan against the scheduled execution of a Pakistani convicted of murdering two CIA staff in the United States
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Human-rights groups in Uganda stepped up their campaign...
Human-rights groups in Uganda stepped up their campaign against the death penalty, with several of them submitting strong memoranda to the Constitution Review Commission urging for its removal from the statute books
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued...
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a veiled warning he might have to call on "the forces of the people" to step in if the main pillars of Iran's power structure were unable to solve major problems, the BBC reported
- NOVEMBER 11, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's hardline-controlled judiciary stood behind the...
Iran's hardline-controlled judiciary stood behind the sentencing to death of a prominent pro-reform academic, hitting out at parliamentary efforts to have the ruling quashed
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man was condemned to death by a court for killing...
A man was condemned to death by a court for killing his wife in 1993
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Miss Norway, one of the women planning to boycott the...
Miss Norway, one of the women planning to boycott the contest, to return to the fold as contestants gathered in London last night
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Five convicted drug traffickers were hanged in a prison...
Five convicted drug traffickers were hanged in a prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj, Kayhan reported
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan delegates who reviewed the country's pre-draft...
Rwandan delegates who reviewed the country's pre-draft constitution in a national constitutional conference over the weekend rejected a proposal to abolish the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of Iranian students protested for a second...
Hundreds of Iranian students protested for a second day, outraged at a death sentence for blasphemy imposed on a reformist academic that has ignited a battle for political control of the Islamic Republic
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's pro-reform parliamentary majority protested...
Iran's pro-reform parliamentary majority protested against the death sentence imposed on dissident academic Hashem Aghajari, then passed the first draft of controversial legislation intended to curb the powers of their hardline opponents in the judiciary
- NOVEMBER 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The Islamic Students' Society of Al-Zahra University,...
The Islamic Students' Society of Al-Zahra University, the Legal and Political Science Faculty of Tehran University, the Social Science Faculty of Tehran University and the Faculty of Science of Tehran University issued separate statements protesting the d
- NOVEMBER 9, 2002IrelandDEATH PENALTY
Lynda Duffy from Glencorrib, Co Mayo and Gayle Williamson...
Lynda Duffy from Glencorrib, Co Mayo and Gayle Williamson from Lurgan, Co Armagh, vowed to take part in the beauty pageant
- NOVEMBER 9, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A High Court judge in Mpumalanga province, South Africa,...
A High Court judge in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, called on the Constitutional Court to review the abolition of the death penalty, saying violence was out of control, politicians did nothing but talk, and jail terms were simply not a deterrent
- NOVEMBER 9, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Miss Uganda beauty queen, Rehema Nakuya, is carrying...
Miss Uganda beauty queen, Rehema Nakuya, is carrying her mantle to the glamour of the Miss World beauty contest in Abuja, Nigeria
- NOVEMBER 9, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of Iranian students chanting "Political prisoners...
Hundreds of Iranian students chanting "Political prisoners should be released!" protested against Iran's hardline judiciary and Hashem Aghajari's death sentence for blasphemy in the biggest political demonstration for over three years
- NOVEMBER 9, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The front pages of many Tehran newspapers reflected...
The front pages of many Tehran newspapers reflected the predictable outrage that Hashem Aghajari's death sentence provoked among reformists in Iran
- NOVEMBER 8, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
An investigation by a UK television outfit, Channel...
An investigation by a UK television outfit, Channel 4's Dispatches team, uncovered eyewitness accounts of the execution of 15 women in a market square in the port of Basra
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In a 4-3 decision, the Florida Supreme Court reversed...
In a 4-3 decision, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of Ronald Bell, because he was 2 months shy of his 18th birthday at the time of the murder of Cordell Richards in February 1999
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
Masja Juel, Miss Denmark, the most forceful of the...
Masja Juel, Miss Denmark, the most forceful of the boycotters, said in one interview: "I knew I had to make a choice
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002FranceDEATH PENALTY
Sylvie Teller, who was to go as Miss France, said:...
Sylvie Teller, who was to go as Miss France, said: "When a woman faces the most agonising death, there are more important things in life than winning a crown for being beautiful
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan cannot abolish the death penalty at present,...
Tajikistan cannot abolish the death penalty at present, an official from the Justice Ministry, Sh