Archive timeline
2002
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2002, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 535
- Countries where they were recorded
- 27
- News items in the archive
- 3,937
Latest news of 2002
- APRIL 30, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive"...
A human rights group criticised Saudi Arabia's "secretive" judicial system following confusion over the sentencing of seven Westerners on trial for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign in the kingdom
- APRIL 29, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed the need of a moratorium on capital punishment in Kazakhstan in his message to the nation, which he read in parliament,
- APRIL 29, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhengzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in...
Zhengzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in Henan Province, convened a meeting to try 14 alleged criminals involved in five robbery cases, including an "Amway" robbery case
- APRIL 28, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Hossein Butehkan was executed in Kashan, Iran
Hossein Butehkan was executed in Kashan, Iran
- APRIL 28, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for knifing to...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man for knifing to death a compatriot, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- APRIL 28, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A documentary due to be screened on the Irish television...
A documentary due to be screened on the Irish television channel RTE on April 30, shows how campaigning Irish missionary Father Shay Cullen, working with undercover cops, was 'sold' girls as young as twelve on the streets of Olangapo in the Philippines
- APRIL 28, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court has approved death sentence for those...
The Supreme Court has approved death sentence for those guilty of killing innocent persons of a particular community, religion or class
- APRIL 28, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese man sentenced to death for murder was saved...
A Chinese man sentenced to death for murder was saved from the executioner's bullet with only four minutes to spare because of the persistence of his lawyer and an available mobile phone
- APRIL 28, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court handed out a death sentence to Fatemeh,...
A Tehran court handed out a death sentence to Fatemeh, and two unidentified males were condemned to die in Ahwaz
- APRIL 28, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed...
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed outrage after two Britons accused of masterminding a bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia were secretly given lengthy jail sentences
- APRIL 28, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed...
International human rights groups and British MPs expressed outrage after two Britons accused of masterminding a bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia were secretly given lengthy jail sentences
- APRIL 27, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards...
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards it had announced for the capture, dead or alive, of top Maoist leaders
- APRIL 27, 2002NepalDEATH PENALTY
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards...
Nepal said Indians are also eligible for the rewards it had announced for the capture, dead or alive, of top Maoist leaders
- APRIL 27, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The family of Malaysian computer engineer Noor Suzaily...
The family of Malaysian computer engineer Noor Suzaily Mukhtar said they felt her death was vindicated with the death sentence imposed on Hanafi Mat Hassan
- APRIL 27, 2002North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists reported a crackdown on North...
Human rights activists reported a crackdown on North Korean refugees entering China over its northern border, as well as the arrest of South Korean missionaries who try to help them
- APRIL 27, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Special Judge S N Dhingra sentenced to death three...
Special Judge S N Dhingra sentenced to death three Pakistani militants, Nazir Khan, Abdul Rahim and Naser Mehmood Sodozey, belonging to Harkat-ul-Ansar, for kidnapping four foreign tourists in 1994 in a case in which Omar Sheikh was also one of the accuse
- APRIL 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in...
The Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People's Court, in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, sentenced Qu Ligu, Chu Wei, and four other alleged criminals to death and terms of imprisonment
- APRIL 27, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tehran condemned to death Davoud Baghi and Saeed
A court in Tehran condemned to death Davoud Baghi and Saeed
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed...
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed "deep concern" at reports that a Scot had been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted...
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted planting a car bomb which killed a fellow expatriate
- APRIL 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons...
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons had been secretly sentenced to 18 years in jail for alleged involvement in a fatal bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 27, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed...
A Labour MSP [Member of the Scottish Parliament] expressed "deep concern" at reports that a Scot had been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for alleged involvement in a bombing campaign
- APRIL 27, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons...
Britain declined to comment on a report that two Britons had been secretly sentenced to 18 years in jail for alleged involvement in a fatal bombing campaign in Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 27, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted...
A Briton faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after he admitted planting a car bomb which killed a fellow expatriate
- APRIL 26, 2002SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) wants to re-submit...
The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) wants to re-submit to the Slovakian Parliament their Criminal Code amendment, recently turned down by the Parliament, which features harsher punishments for offenders, introduces the death penalty, anti-cloning meas
- APRIL 26, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
European Union justice ministers gave the go-ahead...
European Union justice ministers gave the go-ahead for negotiations on an EU-US extradition and judicial co-operation agreement, but proposed conditions that the Americans seem unlikely to accept
- APRIL 26, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Three doctors and a hospital manager in Thailand were...
Three doctors and a hospital manager in Thailand were charged with conspiracy to murder patients for their kidneys
- APRIL 26, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Lebanese military court sentenced to death in absentia...
A Lebanese military court sentenced to death in absentia three former militiamen convicted of collaborating with Israel during its occupation of southern Lebanon
- APRIL 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four men were sentenced to death for killing six people...
Four men were sentenced to death for killing six people by setting off a bomb on a public bus in March 2002, a court spokesman said
- APRIL 26, 2002NepalDEATH PENALTY
The Nepal government said that it did not mean to encourage...
The Nepal government said that it did not mean to encourage people to take the law in their hands when promising rewards for Maoist leaders handed over to it