Archive timeline
2003
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2003, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2003
- JUNE 23, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal...
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal Shivpal, who was arrested on charges of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl in September 2002
- JUNE 23, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
"Kazakhstan will definitely have life sentences
"Kazakhstan will definitely have life sentences
- JUNE 23, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
David Charles Carpenter, 41, who twice was sentenced...
David Charles Carpenter, 41, who twice was sentenced to death will now remain in prison for life without parole
- JUNE 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted...
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted of beating to death a compatriot in a dispute over a plot of farm land
- JUNE 21, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
L. Achour, alias Salah, current commander of the Salafi...
L. Achour, alias Salah, current commander of the Salafi Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), was sentenced to death in absentia by the criminal court in Constantine, Algeria, the Algerian daily El-Khabar's website reported. He was accused of belonging to an
- JUNE 21, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Cai Gang, an unemployed Chinese man who burned his...
Cai Gang, an unemployed Chinese man who burned his daughter alive to get her life insurance, was sentenced to death
- JUNE 21, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence...
The Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence said that as of June 18 a total of 176 civilians in 12 districts in Aceh had become victims of "extrajudicial killings" during Indonesia's military offensive against separatist rebels in the provin
- JUNE 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a prominent jurist sitting...
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a prominent jurist sitting on both the Guardians Council and Expediency Council, Iran's two top political oversight bodies, called on Iran's hard-line judiciary to treat "rioters" arrested during 10 nights of anti-regime protests
- JUNE 20, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Isnin Saleh, 33, Azman Ismail, 35, and Ruzaini...
Mohamed Isnin Saleh, 33, Azman Ismail, 35, and Ruzaini Ajis, 32, all Singaporeans, were executed by hanging
- JUNE 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing appeal court upheld a suspended death sentence...
A Beijing appeal court upheld a suspended death sentence for former governor of southwest China's Yunnan province, Li Jiating, who was convicted of corruption
- JUNE 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Judge...
The Sialkot Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Sarwar Sidhu awarded a death sentence each with a fine of Rs
- JUNE 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Gulzar Rawal, 35, was hanged at in Central Jail in...
Gulzar Rawal, 35, was hanged at in Central Jail in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
- JUNE 19, 2003Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
The Southern Regional High Court of Sierra Leone in...
The Southern Regional High Court of Sierra Leone in Bo District sentenced to death 6 people by hanging after convicting them of ritualistic murder
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yanhui, a 52 year old Beijing man convicted of robbery,...
Li Yanhui, a 52 year old Beijing man convicted of robbery, was executed by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that in its initial trial, the Foshan...
It was reported that in its initial trial, the Foshan Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, China, sentenced Huang Zhaohua, Ceng Xianen and Xu Weide to death for selling ecstasy, ketamine and "ice"
- JUNE 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court,...
The Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court, in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, executed 10 "principal drug criminals"
- JUNE 18, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vu Xuan Lich and Tong Van Loi, leaders of a 16 member...
Vu Xuan Lich and Tong Van Loi, leaders of a 16 member ring that smuggled heroin from Laos to Vietnam, were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Lai Chau province in Vietnam
- JUNE 18, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan,...
Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan, the Muslim Uzbekistan web site stated that: "Tens of thousands of Uzbek Muslims have been unlawfully arrested, thousands have been tortured and dozens have been killed in extra-judicial executions
- JUNE 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court,...
The Beijing Number Two Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Wu Yinfu to death for killing Zhou Jianbo on 10 November 1999 following a dispute
- JUNE 18, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
Ernest Martin, 42, was executed this morning at the...
Ernest Martin, 42, was executed this morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
- JUNE 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhuang Chunsheng, a 21-year-old man convicted of killing...
Zhuang Chunsheng, a 21-year-old man convicted of killing his parents, was executed in Beijing after being convicted by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court
- JUNE 17, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot...
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh
- JUNE 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province,...
The Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province, China, sentenced Wang Jiande, Wang Jianfu and Chen Guo to death for murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, drug trafficking and illegal trading in guns
- JUNE 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Zhejiang Higher People's Court, China, sentenced...
The Zhejiang Higher People's Court, China, sentenced to death Wang Tianyi, director of Wenzhou Lucheng Public Security Sub-Bureau, for accepting bribes and for possession of huge assets without known sources
- JUNE 16, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Two members of the Peoples Mujahedeen who have lived...
Two members of the Peoples Mujahedeen who have lived in Britain as political refugees for decades were recently arrested in Syria and handed over to the clerical regime in Tehran, the Iranian opposition movement said
- JUNE 16, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two members of the Peoples Mujahedeen who have lived...
Two members of the Peoples Mujahedeen who have lived in Britain as political refugees for decades were recently arrested in Syria and handed over to the clerical regime in Tehran, the Iranian opposition movement said
- JUNE 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Sixth additional district and sessions judge, Ashoke...
Sixth additional district and sessions judge, Ashoke Kumar Chand sentenced to death Hani Mian, Suresh Sao and Hiraman Sao, three Maoist Communist Centre activists responsible for the 2001 "Beltu massacre" which killed 14 people
- JUNE 14, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Four armed Islamic militants were sentenced to death...
Four armed Islamic militants were sentenced to death in abstentia by an Algerian court, official news agency APS reported
- JUNE 14, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain members from various countries met in...
Hands Off Cain members from various countries met in Rome to consult on the strategy for the re-presentation of a moratorium resolution at the upcoming UN General Assembly
- JUNE 14, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
"Emir" [Islamist group leader] Boufedi, 23 years old,...
"Emir" [Islamist group leader] Boufedi, 23 years old, who has been on the run since the 1990s, and found guilty of setting up a group of criminals and a terrorist organization through armed violence, was sentenced to death in absentia by the criminal cour