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
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert...
Relatives of Ivory Coast's former junta leader Robert Guei and his wife Rose said that they had been executed by security forces and not in a shootout as was reported on state television
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)...
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) decried the effect of the Sharia legal code introduced in some Northern states of the country, saying that the implementation of Sharia was particularly unfavourable to women
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Jianhua was executed for murder
Chen Jianhua was executed for murder
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Huanggang Intermediate People's Court, in Hubei...
The Huanggang Intermediate People's Court, in Hubei Province, sentenced Jiang Lin and Zhou Zhiyong to death for organizing other gang members to damage public and private property, and collect "protection" fees
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi appeals court upheld death sentences against...
A Saudi appeals court upheld death sentences against three Saudi nationals, one in absentia, for the 2000 murder of a 20-year-old Saudi man in the United States
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it was concerned about human...
The European Union said it was concerned about human rights in China and will raise the issue when their leaders meet on September 22-24, diplomats said
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it was concerned about human...
The European Union said it was concerned about human rights in China and will raise the issue when their leaders meet on September 22-24, diplomats said
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed...
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed for life in Thailand for smuggling 4kg of heroin out of the country
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed...
A British man was spared the death penalty but jailed for life in Thailand for smuggling 4kg of heroin out of the country
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
Ahmed Hassan was hanged for murder
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
David Kibet Birir and Joel Koskei were sentenced to...
David Kibet Birir and Joel Koskei were sentenced to death after they were found guilty of violently robbing a housewife of cash in Londiani on April 14, 2002
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian...
The Abidjan Panafrican News Agency reported that Ivorian gendarmes and policemen carried out numerous summary executions against those they captured during a mutiny outbreak of about 750 soldiers
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Wilson Tuwei Maritim and Richard Kimutai Maritim were...
Wilson Tuwei Maritim and Richard Kimutai Maritim were sentenced to death by Senior Resident Magistrate Richard Kirui for violently robbing a farmer of cash and a half-kilo of meat
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning...
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning sentence imposed on a Nigerian woman but an Islamic Court, but the issue should be seen in the broader Nigerian context, President Thabo Mbeki said in reply to Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon d
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary...
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemned the capital executions of Yoshiteru and Tatsuya Tamoto in Japan
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary...
The President of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly firmly condemned the capital executions of Yoshiteru and Tatsuya Tamoto in Japan
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning...
South Africa was totally opposed to the death by stoning sentence imposed on a Nigerian woman but an Islamic Court, but the issue should be seen in the broader Nigerian context, President Thabo Mbeki said in reply to Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon d
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working towards the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working towards the abolition of the death penalty, said plans by the government to amend the Constitution, in order to circumvent hangings, would be "a serious breach of the rule of law"
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Orange County circuit judge Belvin Perry sentenced...
Orange County circuit judge Belvin Perry sentenced John Huggins, 40, to death for the 2nd time for the 1997 kidnapping and murder of Carla Larson, a 30-year-old woman in June 1997Judge Belvin Perry, who overturned Huggins' original conviction and death se
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors asked an Islamic court for more time to...
Prosecutors asked an Islamic court for more time to prepare the case against a Nigerian man appealing on grounds of insanity against being stoned to death for raping a young girl
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Federal Opposition joined global calls...
The Australian Federal Opposition joined global calls for a boycott of the Miss World Pageant in Nigeria amid outrage over the planned stoning of a woman accused of adultery
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A Turkish woman launched a 600-kilometer march to back...
A Turkish woman launched a 600-kilometer march to back international appeals for the release f a Nigerian woman under sentence of death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Federal Opposition joined global calls...
The Australian Federal Opposition joined global calls for a boycott of the Miss World Pageant in Nigeria amid outrage over the planned stoning of a woman accused of adultery
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
More than 1,000 of the 13,060 drug offenders arrested...
More than 1,000 of the 13,060 drug offenders arrested during the first six months of 2002 were traffickers and face the death penalty upon conviction, according to statistics from the National Drug Agency
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for stabbing to death...
Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for stabbing to death a female relative, the Interior Ministry said
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Anti-Terrorism Court in Khuzdar, Pakistan passed...
The Anti-Terrorism Court in Khuzdar, Pakistan passed the death sentence on 12 people, eight of them in absentia, for the murder of a tribal chief and two companions
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Japan executed two convicted criminals, the Justice...
Japan executed two convicted criminals, the Justice Ministry said
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
East Africa's prison bosses said the death penalty...
East Africa's prison bosses said the death penalty was outdated and should be scrapped, adding that it was not a solution in the rehabilitation of prisoners
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions joined Prime...
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions joined Prime Minister Helen Clark, Green MP Sue Kedgley and the YWCA in voicing concerns about New Zealand's involvement in the Miss World pageant despite reassurances from the Nigerian Government that the decision
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2002MozambiqueDEATH PENALTY
Mozambique's police force denied a newspaper report...
Mozambique's police force denied a newspaper report that it has carried out "summary executions" or that it runs a "death squad"