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
- APRIL 10, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International...
In occasion of the UNCHR Antoine Madelin, of International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, said that corporal punishments and discrimination against women persisted in Iran
- APRIL 10, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 10, 2003DEATH PENALTY
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal...
British cabinet ministers warned that it would be illegal for Tony Blair to bow to US demands for Iraqi prisoners of war captured by British forces to be handed over to the US for trial or imprisonment in the United States
- APRIL 10, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended
- APRIL 10, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has...
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has been condemned to death by the Supreme Court of her State of Katsina and that her stoning is now imminent
- APRIL 10, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has...
Hands Off Cain refutes the news that Amina Lawal has been condemned to death by the Supreme Court of her State of Katsina and that her stoning is now imminent
- APRIL 10, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational...
HOC supported the demonstrations, promoted by the Transnational Radical Party and the Italian Radicals, to ask that funds given to Fidel Castro's regime by the European Commission be suspended
- APRIL 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid...
Sadek Hossain, 42, was sentenced to death by the Acid Crime Prevention Tribunal in Dhaka for throwing acid on on Sudhir Ranjan Ghotok, a senior advocate of Dhaka district court
- APRIL 9, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
- APRIL 9, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to...
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to escape from China to South Korea in January, 30 were handed over by the Chinese authorities to North Korean frontier guards
- APRIL 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to...
Out of 78 North Koreans arrested in the attempt to escape from China to South Korea in January, 30 were handed over by the Chinese authorities to North Korean frontier guards
- APRIL 9, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Uzbekistan's central Tashkent Region passed...
A court in Uzbekistan's central Tashkent Region passed a death sentence on two men who knifed a woman and her child to death with the intent of robbing them, the Toshkent Haqiqati newspaper reported
- APRIL 8, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Convicted capital murderers determined by a jury to...
Convicted capital murderers determined by a jury to be mentally retarded would be spared the death penalty under a bill approved by the Jurisprudence Committee
- APRIL 8, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify...
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify by June 2003 the 6th protocol to the European Human Rights Convention that envisages the full repeal of death penalty, the head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of E
- APRIL 8, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify...
The Council of Europe insisted that Armenia ratify by June 2003 the 6th protocol to the European Human Rights Convention that envisages the full repeal of death penalty, the head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of E
- APRIL 8, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
- APRIL 8, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed...
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission accusing Russia of grave rights violations in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
- APRIL 8, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed...
Twenty-two European countries submitted a proposed resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission accusing Russia of grave rights violations in the breakaway republic of Chechnya
- APRIL 7, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size...
China is much freer than before, but its sheer size makes it the world's No
- APRIL 7, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Convicted murderer Bobby Lee Harris is moving off death row
Convicted murderer Bobby Lee Harris is moving off death row
- APRIL 7, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center...
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway republic, Deputy Interior Minister Valery Lagvilava said
- APRIL 6, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Deserters from the Iraqi army said they were beaten...
Deserters from the Iraqi army said they were beaten by their superiors and one said he saw 10 fellow soldiers executed by a commander, according to a Human Rights Watch report
- APRIL 5, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain...
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain would not send people to the US under a new extradition treaty if there was a possibility they could face the death penalty
- APRIL 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain...
British Home Secretary David Blunkett vowed that Britain would not send people to the US under a new extradition treaty if there was a possibility they could face the death penalty
- APRIL 5, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armen Martirossian, Armenian Deputy Minister for Foreign...
Armen Martirossian, Armenian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced at a seminar held in Tsakhkadzor that there should be unanimous backing for the abolition of capital punishment from Armenia's legislation
- APRIL 5, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Pyotr Posmakov, head of the penalty execution department...
Pyotr Posmakov, head of the penalty execution department of the Justice Ministry called for the abolition of the death penalty in Kazakhstan in a newspaper interview printed in the Kazakh weekly Karavan
- APRIL 4, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Fort Worth, Nelson Gongora, 23, was sentenced to death
In Fort Worth, Nelson Gongora, 23, was sentenced to death
- APRIL 4, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Three men wept in disbelief inside a High Court in...
Three men wept in disbelief inside a High Court in Nakuru when a judge substituted a five-year sentence they had appealed against with that of death
- APRIL 4, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four men responsible for a series of violent robberies...
Four men responsible for a series of violent robberies in which five people died were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Shenyang city in northeast China's Liaoning Province
- APRIL 4, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
District Judge Tammy Bass-Jones -- for the second time...
District Judge Tammy Bass-Jones -- for the second time in 14 years -- read a jury's verdict that Kenneth Eugene Hogan should be sentenced to death for the Jan