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 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangdong police executed six people convicted of forging...
Guangdong police executed six people convicted of forging bank drafts
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's student movement bowed to pressure from ruling...
Iran's student movement bowed to pressure from ruling hardliners and called a halt to two weeks of nationwide protests in defence of a liberal academic sentenced to death
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian authorities slapped an outright ban on further...
Iranian authorities slapped an outright ban on further student demonstrations against the sentencing to death of a pro-reform dissident academic
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Leading Iranian reformists warned students that powerful...
Leading Iranian reformists warned students that powerful conservatives planned to impose emergency rule if university demonstrations against a dissident's death sentence got out of hand
- NOVEMBER 24, 2002NebraskaDEATH PENALTY
During a special session of the Nebraska legislature,...
During a special session of the Nebraska legislature, members enacted a bill that attempts to bring the state's law into compliance with the Supreme Court's ruling in Ring v
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The death sentences of 180 terrorist organization members,...
The death sentences of 180 terrorist organization members, who had been sentenced to death by Diyarbakir State Security Courts (DGMs), were commuted to life imprisonment
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A court in Mashhad, capital city of the northeastern...
A court in Mashhad, capital city of the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, sentenced 12 members of the 'Vultures' gang to death on various charges
- NOVEMBER 23, 2002DEATH PENALTY
MISS WORLD: A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRACY
November 23, 2002: The facts happened in Nigeria, that brought to the decision of moving the beauty contest of Miss World, show the convergence of two diametrically extreme stands.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of the death penalty...
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of the death penalty revealed that they would submit to next year's Diet a bill to set up an ad hoc commission to debate whether it should be abolished
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and also called for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and also called for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic of Iran in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that...
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume reversed the death penalty passed on two Russian citizens
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that...
The local Tanzanian newspaper Daily News reported that Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume reversed the death penalty passed on two Russian citizens
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Brian Rushambwa Sango, 27, was sentenced to death for...
Brian Rushambwa Sango, 27, was sentenced to death for murdering his friend's girlfriend, Rosemary Matsika, and her son Takudzwa
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed by group officials that the Japan Federation...
It was revealed by group officials that the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Japan's largest bar organization, had intentions of proposing a legal moratorium on executions, the first time it has explicitly adopted a position against the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling...
The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the death sentence on university professor Hashem Aghajari and for closer cooperation between the EU and the Islamic Republic in human rights issues
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a wave of student protests was the work of pro-US enemies of the Islamic state and warned they would be suppressed if necessary
- NOVEMBER 22, 2002DEATH PENALTY
MISS WORLD RIOTS LEAVE OVER 100 DEAD, HOC CALLS FOR EU BACKING TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
November 22, 2002: at least 105 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds wounded in rioting in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna triggered by Muslim fury over the holding of the Miss World pageant in Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday.
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting...
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting Muslim youths torched churches, looted shops and destroyed vehicles in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna amid rising Muslim fury over the country's staging of the Miss World pageant
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting...
At least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting Muslim youths torched churches, looted shops and destroyed vehicles in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna amid rising Muslim fury over the country's staging of the Miss World pageant
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002NevadaDEATH PENALTY
In Carson City, the state Board of Pardons has commuted...
In Carson City, the state Board of Pardons has commuted the death sentence of 2-time killer Thomas Nevius to life in prison without the possibility of parole because he is borderline mentally retarded
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong resident Cheung Tin-shung and mainlander...
Hong Kong resident Cheung Tin-shung and mainlander Cheung Siu-ngan were sentenced to death by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court for trafficking in drugs
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgarian Ambassador Yuri Sterk, signed Protocol No
Bulgarian Ambassador Yuri Sterk, signed Protocol No
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of capital punishment...
Lawmakers opposed to Japan's use of capital punishment plan to submit to the 2003 Diet a bill to set up an ad hoc death penalty commission to encourage public discussions on whether or not it should be abolished, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's reformist allies...
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's reformist allies said they could push for a rare referendum if two bills challenging the hardliners' grip on power were vetoed by conservatives
- NOVEMBER 21, 2002DEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA YOUTHS RIOT OVER MISS WORLD PAGEANT, HOC CALLS FOR EU BACKING TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
November 21, 2002: at least 10 people were killed after thousands of rioting Muslim youths torched churches, looted shops and destroyed vehicles in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Thursday amid rising Muslim fury over the country´s staging of the
- NOVEMBER 20, 2002OhioDEATH PENALTY
In Trumbull County Court, the same jury that decided...
In Trumbull County Court, the same jury that decided the guilt of Nathaniel Jackson has decided he should die for the crime
- NOVEMBER 20, 2002OhioDEATH PENALTY
Rhett Depew, who's been on death row for nearly 2 decades,...
Rhett Depew, who's been on death row for nearly 2 decades, will be heading to court for a new sentence
- NOVEMBER 20, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
In Atlanta, Butts County Superior Court Judge Kevin A
In Atlanta, Butts County Superior Court Judge Kevin A
- NOVEMBER 20, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
In the death chamber at the Huntsville "Walls" Unit,...
In the death chamber at the Huntsville "Walls" Unit, professing his innocence, 66-year-old William Wesley Chappell became the oldest man executed by Texas since the state in 1924 took over capital punishment duties from counties