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
- AUGUST 12, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi Communist Party newspaper Tariq al-Sha'b reported...
Iraqi Communist Party newspaper Tariq al-Sha'b reported that on 25 June, the [Iraqi] authorities handed over the bodies of three citizens, that they had executed earlier, to their families in Al-Hindiyah Administrative District and its environs
- AUGUST 12, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Five notorious dacoits were sentenced to death, one...
Five notorious dacoits were sentenced to death, one of them in absentia, for murder of a housewife and her brother-in-law in the suburb of the town in May 1999
- AUGUST 12, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Moved to tears by the wails of the parents of Bappi...
Moved to tears by the wails of the parents of Bappi and Ratna, two children brutally killed within a span of five days, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina urged people to stand united to end "misrule" as she said this government failed to provide public secu
- AUGUST 11, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The residents of Noorani Basti held demonstration before...
The residents of Noorani Basti held demonstration before press club demanding death sentence for killers of married girl Ishrat who was burnt by in laws some 10 days back and expired in civil hospital on Friday last
- AUGUST 11, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, sentenced to...
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, sentenced to death in 1999, praised Turkey's abolition of capital punishment as the most important decision in its modern history, in an interview
- AUGUST 11, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court has affirmed the 25 counts of death...
The Supreme Court has affirmed the 25 counts of death penalty the Pasig City Regional Trial Court imposed on a man who raped his 13-year-old daughter in 1998, at the time his wife was pregnant with their fifth child
- AUGUST 11, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Despite tough laws against human trafficking, which...
Despite tough laws against human trafficking, which carries the death penalty, hundreds of Bangladeshi children are kidnapped every year, humanitarian groups say
- AUGUST 11, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia flogged 12 teenage boys in public for...
Saudi Arabia flogged 12 teenage boys in public for harassing women, Saudi media reported
- AUGUST 11, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Ali Haji, an Indian national convicted of...
Mohammed Ali Haji, an Indian national convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was beheaded in Al Khobar, the Saudi news agency (SPA) said
- AUGUST 11, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Ali Haji, an Indian national convicted of...
Mohammed Ali Haji, an Indian national convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was beheaded in Al Khobar, the Saudi news agency (SPA) said
- AUGUST 11, 2002SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syria released a leading communist dissident after...
Syria released a leading communist dissident after 27 years in jail because of serious health problems, human rights lawyers said
- AUGUST 11, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy was sentenced to death...
Businessman Alex Wong Teck Choy was sentenced to death early in August for the murder of 27-year-old car spare parts assistant Seow Nan Keong
- AUGUST 11, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Residents of the Indian village of Noorani Basti held...
Residents of the Indian village of Noorani Basti held a demonstration demanding the death sentence for the killers of Ishrat, a married girl who was burnt by her in-laws and died in civil hospital ten days later, on August 9
- AUGUST 11, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In May 1991, they blew up the man who would be India's...
In May 1991, they blew up the man who would be India's Prime Minister
- AUGUST 11, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In May 1991, they blew up the man who would be India's...
In May 1991, they blew up the man who would be India's Prime Minister
- AUGUST 10, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) called...
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) called on the New National Party (NNP) to disband after its leader promoted the reinstatement of the death penalty in his Women's Day message
- AUGUST 10, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A trend that sees women drawn to marry killers waiting...
A trend that sees women drawn to marry killers waiting to die on death row is increasing
- AUGUST 10, 2002IndianaDEATH PENALTY
Benjamin Ritchie, 22, had a jury's death penalty verdict...
Benjamin Ritchie, 22, had a jury's death penalty verdict in a Marion Superior Courtroom for the Sept
- AUGUST 10, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court has modified the death sentence imposed...
The Supreme Court has modified the death sentence imposed on two accused in a multiple murder case into life imprisonment on the ground that death sentence could be awarded only to those who could not be reformed or rehabilitated and if they constituted a
- AUGUST 10, 2002UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights organisations and diplomats believe 6,500...
Human rights organisations and diplomats believe 6,500 Muslims are currently in jail in Uzbekistan for supposed sympathies with Muslim extremist groups
- AUGUST 10, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Devlet Bahceli, Nationalist Action Party [MHP] leader...
Devlet Bahceli, Nationalist Action Party [MHP] leader and deputy prime minister, declared that embarking on a road based on the notions of blackmail and surrender in Turkey's ties with the EU will prepare the ground for more excessive demands pertaining t
- AUGUST 9, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The murder and possible rape of former first lady Marike...
The murder and possible rape of former first lady Marike de Klerk strengthened the New National Party's case for the reinstatement of the death penalty, NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said
- AUGUST 9, 2002South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa should impose the death penalty on criminals...
South Africa should impose the death penalty on criminals who committed murder, rape and armed robbery to protect the lives of its citizens, especially women, an opposition party leader said
- AUGUST 9, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
After less than a half-hour of deliberations, a jury...
After less than a half-hour of deliberations, a jury decided that Herbert Blakeney should be put to death for the near decapitation of his stepson
- AUGUST 9, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Communists presented four questions to be raised...
The Communists presented four questions to be raised in a projected referendum aimed at blocking the government's reforms
- AUGUST 9, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In a letter to the editor of the UK Independent daily,...
In a letter to the editor of the UK Independent daily, MP Ann Clwyd wrote: "Along with other members of the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, I am encouraged by the recent legislative reforms in Turkey, which pave the way for the abolition of th
- AUGUST 9, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The files of those who were sentenced to death on charges...
The files of those who were sentenced to death on charges of terrorism will be reviwed after Turkey abolished the death sentence except for the "crimes committed in times of war and situations of imminent war"
- AUGUST 9, 2002BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The verdict in the trial of 15 people charged with...
The verdict in the trial of 15 people charged with the wilful contamination of 393 Libyan children with AIDS was again postponed to an unspecified date, according to legal sources in Tripoli
- AUGUST 9, 2002LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The verdict in the trial of 15 people charged with...
The verdict in the trial of 15 people charged with the wilful contamination of 393 Libyan children with AIDS was again postponed to an unspecified date, according to legal sources in Tripoli
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province,...
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province, sentenced Zhao Keming, Xiamen vice-mayor, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all assets for accepting bribes