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
- JANUARY 15, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young...
The state-owned newspaper Etemad reported that a young man named Azim received a double death sentence
- JANUARY 15, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jin Yugang, 35, was sentenced to death by the High...
Jin Yugang, 35, was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering his colleague, Mr Wang Hong, 32, in front of a coffeeshop at midnight on February 4, 2002
- JANUARY 15, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Uzbek TV reported that the Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced...
Uzbek TV reported that the Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced the leader of a gang to death and four other members to long prison terms for multiple murders during a series of organized robberies
- JANUARY 15, 2003TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey signed Protocol No
Turkey signed Protocol No
- JANUARY 14, 2003DEATH PENALTY
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern...
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern over the death sentences against 30 people for involvement in the killing of president Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 14, 2003IndianaDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for...
A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for Keith B
- JANUARY 14, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Samuel Gallamore was executed
Samuel Gallamore was executed
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad...
Attorney-General Glenda Morean Phillips said Trinidad and Tobago was drafting new legislation to allow for the execution of convicted killers
- JANUARY 14, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern...
UN rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello voiced concern over the death sentences against 30 people for involvement in the killing of president Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 14, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former...
The human rights group Caribbean Justice accused former Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney-General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj of double standards on the issue of state executions
- JANUARY 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that...
The state-owned Jomhouri Islami daily reported that the head of the justice department in the northern city of Noshahr had announced that a woman named Zeinab was sentenced to flogging and hanging by the local court
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming...
Amnesty International issued a statement welcoming the release of the "Hsichih Trio": Su Chien-ho, Liu Bing-lang and Chuang Lin-hsun, death row inmates who were acquitted by the Taiwan High Court of all charges brought against them for the murder of a cou
- JANUARY 14, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of...
A lawyer representing the family of the victims of the 1991 Hsichih double murder said he would ask the prosecutor to appeal against the Taiwan High Court's acquittal of the Hsichih Trio
- JANUARY 14, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad E
Ahmad E
- JANUARY 14, 2003DEATH PENALTY
KENYA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
January 14, 2003: Kenya´s new government wants to abolish the death penalty within the next six months, Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi stated. HOC said Kenya’s decision, coming on the heels of a historic election, reinforces its belief that abolition an
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed...
Ahmad Ali Gholestaneh, Mostapha Ghanjali and Seyed Khalil Pour-Anvari were executed for drug-trafficking January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China sentenced 10 people to death in two separate...
China sentenced 10 people to death in two separate cases in central and eastern China involving drug trafficking and armed robberies along highways, state media said
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking...
Taiwan's most famous death row convicts emerged blinking into freedom and a media scrum after the island's High Court declared them not guilty of a vicious double murder more than a decade ago
- JANUARY 13, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for...
Taiwan freed three men who had been on death row for more than a decade in a brutal robbery-murder case that had put the island's human rights record in the spotlight
- JANUARY 13, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Eighteen people were sentenced to death in Kazakhstan...
Eighteen people were sentenced to death in Kazakhstan in 2002
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri,...
Karam Abdollahi, Nader Sadati and Khalil Mansouri, convicted of armed robbery were hanged on January 9 in the courtyard of the Evine prison in Tehran, the student news agency ISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia,...
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, sentenced Ang Kim Sui alias Tomy Wijaya, 50, to death for producing and distributing ecstasy pills
- JANUARY 13, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, sentenced...
The district court in Tangerang, Banten, sentenced Ang Kim Sui alias Tomy Wijaya, 50, to death for producing and distributing ecstasy pills
- JANUARY 13, 2003South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Six South Korean men were sentenced to death in China...
Six South Korean men were sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 13, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Fifteen people were executed in secret on January 7...
Fifteen people were executed in secret on January 7 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Amnesty and MISNA reported
- JANUARY 13, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of...
Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo condemned the execution of 15 people sentenced to death
- JANUARY 13, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenya's new government wants to abolish the death penalty...
Kenya's new government wants to abolish the death penalty within the next six months, Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi said
- JANUARY 13, 2003GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International released a report describing...
Amnesty International released a report describing as "draconian" the Criminal Law (Offences) Bill, popularly called the "terrorist bill", which came into effect as of September 2002 in Guyana, warning that it could seriously jeopardize human rights and s
- JANUARY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Afarinesh daily reported that a young man identified...
The Afarinesh daily reported that a young man identified as Reza was sentenced to death in Tehran
- JANUARY 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six South Korean men were sentenced to death in China...
Six South Korean men were sentenced to death in China for drug trafficking