Archive timeline
2004
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2004, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2004
- MAY 22, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting...
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting international support for five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death by a Libyan court on charges of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- MAY 22, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting...
Bulgarian officials and politicians continued soliciting international support for five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death by a Libyan court on charges of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus
- MAY 22, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a man in Ahwaz was sentenced to five times execution
a man in Ahwaz was sentenced to five times execution
- MAY 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The death of the Attorney General, Francis Ayume, halted...
The death of the Attorney General, Francis Ayume, halted the hearing of a petition in which 417 condemned prisoners were challenging the death penalty
- MAY 21, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court in Japan upheld a lower court's death...
An appeals court in Japan upheld a lower court's death sentence for Yasutoshi Matsuda, a 36-year-old man found guilty of robbing and murdering two women in Miyazaki Prefecture in 2001
- MAY 21, 2004TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Taiwan said it could find no fault...
The Supreme Court of Taiwan said it could find no fault with the case of Hsu Tzu-chiang , a death-row inmate whose conviction had been surrounded with controversy for almost a decade
- MAY 21, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Fukuoka High Court, Japan, quashed the death penalty...
The Fukuoka High Court, Japan, quashed the death penalty for Reiko Yamaguchi, a woman convicted of murdering her husband and son and reduced it to life imprisonment, saying she had been lured by her male accomplice and could be rehabilitated
- MAY 21, 2004MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Mat Jusoh was sentenced to death by the High...
Adnan Mat Jusoh was sentenced to death by the High Court of Malaysia after being found guilty of killing his girlfriend in
- MAY 21, 2004TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer signed into law...
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer signed into law a set of constitutional amendments aimed at bringing the country closer to European Union democracy standards, his office said
- MAY 21, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani...
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani terrorist, Maqsood Ahmed, alias Ashraf Abbu Mujahid, for attacking a police encampment in Jarodha Kalan on the outskirts of Delhi, killing a man and grievously injuring his colleague on the night of Oc
- MAY 21, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian court sentenced a South African man to...
An Indonesian court sentenced a South African man to death for smuggling heroin, an official said
- MAY 21, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani...
A Delhi Sessions Court sentenced to death a Pakistani terrorist, Maqsood Ahmed, alias Ashraf Abbu Mujahid, for attacking a police encampment in Jarodha Kalan on the outskirts of Delhi, killing a man and grievously injuring his colleague on the night of Oc
- MAY 21, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
There was song and dance at the High Court in Nyeri...
There was song and dance at the High Court in Nyeri when six men sentenced to hang for robbery were set free by a two-judge appellate court
- MAY 21, 2004South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian court sentenced a South African man to...
An Indonesian court sentenced a South African man to death for smuggling heroin, an official said
- MAY 21, 2004PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A Creek County jury found Robert Wayne Lambert was...
A Creek County jury found Robert Wayne Lambert was not mentally retarded and could be returned to death row for the 1987 murders of 2 young Tulsans
- MAY 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
- MAY 20, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador...
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador to Croatia to discuss how Croatia could help solving the problem of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya after they were convicted of deliberately infecti
- MAY 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted...
An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi, Pakistan, convicted four kidnappers and sentenced them to death
- MAY 20, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador...
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador to Croatia to discuss how Croatia could help solving the problem of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya after they were convicted of deliberately infecti
- MAY 20, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Umbrella exile Iranian opposition party, the National...
The Umbrella exile Iranian opposition party, the National Council of the Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that some 3,800 members of its Iraq-based military wing, the People's Mujahideen, must not be extradited to Iran, where they would face torture and ex
- MAY 20, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
The Umbrella exile Iranian opposition party, the National...
The Umbrella exile Iranian opposition party, the National Council of the Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that some 3,800 members of its Iraq-based military wing, the People's Mujahideen, must not be extradited to Iran, where they would face torture and ex
- MAY 20, 2004CroatiaDEATH PENALTY
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador...
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador to Croatia to discuss how Croatia could help solving the problem of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya after they were convicted of deliberately infecti
- MAY 20, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador...
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic met the Libyan ambassador to Croatia to discuss how Croatia could help solving the problem of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya after they were convicted of deliberately infecti
- MAY 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Le Duc Thi, 32, was sentenced to death after being...
Le Duc Thi, 32, was sentenced to death after being found guilty by a court in Vietnam's central province of Binh Dinh of beating to death his 73-year-old great-aunt on March 6, 2004 after she refused to lend him money
- MAY 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi People's Court, Vietnam, sentenced to death...
The Hanoi People's Court, Vietnam, sentenced to death Le Minh Duc, 20, for killing and robbing his 52-year-old neighbour in November 2003
- MAY 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to death in Vietnam for...
Three people were sentenced to death in Vietnam for drug trafficking, state media reported
- MAY 19, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister said he hoped for a quick...
Bulgaria's Foreign Minister said he hoped for a quick solution to a dispute with Tripoli over death sentences imposed on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus
- MAY 19, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
United States Human Rights and Democracy report for...
United States Human Rights and Democracy report for the past year stated that the Nigerian government's human rights record had remained poor while the government had continued to commit serious abuses
- MAY 19, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Bangladesh High Court rejected appeal and confirmed...
The Bangladesh High Court rejected appeal and confirmed the death sentence to three young men awarded by the lower court for harrying to death a 10-year-old schoolgirl from Gaibandha in 2002
- MAY 19, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
On the eve of the first court-martial in the Iraq prisoner...
On the eve of the first court-martial in the Iraq prisoner abuse by American soldiers ion the county, relatives of those still held at Abu Ghraib prison said the only suitable punishment would be death