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 4, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a...
Saudi Arabia beheaded an Iraqi man for kidnapping a Saudi national for ransom, the Saudi Press Agency reported
- AUGUST 4, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the European Union (EU) to set a date for the start of accession talks after lawmakers adopted a package of democracy reforms demanded by the EU
- AUGUST 4, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh condemned five people to death...
A court in Bangladesh condemned five people to death and sentenced two others to life terms with rigorous imprisonment for a sensational murder case
- AUGUST 4, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling...
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling from Sichuan to Guangdong province looked on as a Chinese man raped three women five times during the three-day journey
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association,...
The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association, TUSIAD, welcomed the lifting of the death penalty
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Around 2,500 people will escape the death penalty after...
Around 2,500 people will escape the death penalty after parliament voted to abolish capital punishment from the [civil] code except in times of war or near war
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit called upon the European Union (EU) to set a date for the start of accession talks after lawmakers adopted a package of democracy reforms demanded by the EU
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
State Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist...
State Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli said, "those who criticized the MHP for not bringing the file of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of terrorist organization PKK, to the parliament in the past, have
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Terrorism Victims' Solidarity and Cooperation Association...
Terrorism Victims' Solidarity and Cooperation Association Chairman Mehmet Alptekin said that the association condemned those who had expended efforts for abolition of death penalty, and broadcasting and education in Kurdish under the European Union (EU) r
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Devlet Bahceli, deputy prime minister, said he would...
Devlet Bahceli, deputy prime minister, said he would appeal to Turkey's highest court over the reforms, which include lifting the death penalty in peacetime and easing curbs on Kurdish language education and broadcasting
- AUGUST 4, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said, "annulment...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said, "annulment of death penalty, and broadcasting and education in mother tongue are the arrangements made with the aim of broadening freedoms
- AUGUST 3, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Emam Ali was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital...
Emam Ali was sentenced to death in the Iranian capital Tehran
- AUGUST 3, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption...
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption of the third European Union (EU) Reform Package by the Turkish Parliament as an important signal of the determination of the majority of Turkey's political leaders towards further alignment to the v
- AUGUST 3, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial...
The Pakistani woman at the centre of a controversial gang-rape case told a court how she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint by four men whom she knew despite crying out for mercy
- AUGUST 3, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Pro-European politicians won a landmark victory in...
Pro-European politicians won a landmark victory in Turkey with the passage of legislative reforms that delighted human rights activists
- AUGUST 3, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption...
The European Union (EU) Commission welcomed the adoption of the third European Union (EU) Reform Package by the Turkish Parliament as an important signal of the determination of the majority of Turkey's political leaders towards further alignment to the v
- AUGUST 2, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh...
The HCMC People's Court sentenced to death Bui Minh Hai and Ta Kim Tien after convicting them of murder in the fatal shooting of one man during a gold store robbery
- AUGUST 2, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition...
Caribbean Justice, a group working for the abolition of the death penalty, condemned plans by Barbados to amend its constitution in order to circumvent death penalty rulings by the British Privy Council, the highest court in the country
- AUGUST 2, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong drug trafficker Chung Bi-shing, 34, was sentenced...
Hong Kong drug trafficker Chung Bi-shing, 34, was sentenced to death by a Shenzhen court after being caught trying to smuggle 1
- AUGUST 2, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A business man was sentenced to death by the High Court...
A business man was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering a motor spare parts shop assistant outside a pub in Taman Thivy Jaya in Rasah here last year
- AUGUST 1, 2002KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Larry Osborne, 22, was freed after a jury acquitted...
Larry Osborne, 22, was freed after a jury acquitted him in a second trial of murdering an 82-year-old man and his 76-year-old wife in December 1997
- AUGUST 1, 2002MissouriDEATH PENALTY
U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry of St
U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry of St
- AUGUST 1, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A 20-year-old woman acquitted of drug charges in a...
A 20-year-old woman acquitted of drug charges in a lower court has been sentenced to death by the Appeals Court that upheld a prosecution appeal against the Criminal Court's verdict
- AUGUST 1, 2002GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemalan Ambassador to the Organization of American...
Guatemalan Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) Arturo Duarte told the body that his government plans to abolish the death penalty
- AUGUST 1, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Fifth additional district and sessions judge Surendra...
Fifth additional district and sessions judge Surendra Prasad Sharma awarded death sentence to five persons and rigorous life imprisonment to four other accused in connection with a murder case
- AUGUST 1, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Ping from Haozhou city, Anhui province, was sentenced...
Li Ping from Haozhou city, Anhui province, was sentenced to death by Haozhou Intermediate People's Court in February last year for the murder of farmer Li Jinggang in 1993
- AUGUST 1, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court fixed October 7 for the trial of a 13-year-o...
The High Court fixed October 7 for the trial of a 13-year-o ld boy charged with the murder of his tuition teacher's 11-year-old daughter in May this year
- AUGUST 1, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
One of four men accused of a high-profile gang rape...
One of four men accused of a high-profile gang rape in Pakistan said he was married to the woman at the time of the alleged offence
- AUGUST 1, 2002United NationsDEATH PENALTY
United Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson urged...
United Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson urged the United States to lift the death sentences on two men in Texas who were under 18 when they committed murder