Archive timeline
2006
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2006, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2006
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. CONVICTED MILITANT TO APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE
Assep Djaja, a militant who was sentenced to death over attacks on Indonesian islands plagued by religious violence, said he would appeal the verdict, and insisted he was taking part in jihad not terrorism.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
a Valley County jury has recommended the death penalty for Ivan Teleguz.
a Valley County jury has recommended the death penalty for Ivan Teleguz.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA ASKED INDONESIA TO SPARE BALI NINE DEATH PENALTY – FOREIGN MINISTER
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told Australia's parliament he wrote to the Indonesian government asking that the death sentence not be imposed on the "Bali Nine" heroin smugglers.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN MOTHERS CALL FOR RESTORING DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA
the Beslan Mothers, a group of women who lost their children in the deadly school siege of 2004 in Russia’s southern province near Chechnya, called for restoration of death penalty.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. HOWARD TO LOBBY OVER DEATH PENALTY
death sentences imposed by an Indonesian court on two Australians found guilty of heroin trafficking triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity in Australia, with Prime Minister John Howard promising to lobby Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES FOR TWO TEENAGERS
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence against two teenagers in Tehran, the official state news agency reported.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
KAZAKHSTAN. DEATH PENALTY MAY BE ABOLISHED - OMBUDSMAN
Kazakhstan may abolish the death penalty according to Human Rights Ombudsman Bolat Baykadamov.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. CHILD RAPISTS TO FACE DEATH PENALTY UNDER NEW PROPOSALS
new laws were being brought in to protect children in Bahrain against rapists and pedophiles
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Rajbari, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Shafiqul Islam, 26, after finding him guilty of killing his wife.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR TERROR SUSPECT
Indonesian national Assep Djaja was sentenced to death for killing eight people in attacks in the Moluccas islands that sparked fears of sectarian bloodshed in the region.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2006DEATH PENALTY
a man on death row for killing his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter should get a new sentencing hearing
a man on death row for killing his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter should get a new sentencing hearing because of errors, Maryland's highest court ruled.
- FEBRUARY 12, 2006KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL ASIA. ACTIVISTS CAMPAIGN TO END DEATH PENALTY
human rights activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan met to plan a two-year campaign to abolish the death penalty in Central Asia.
- FEBRUARY 12, 2006SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. 96% OF SINGAPOREANS BACK THE DEATH PENALTY
a survey of 425 Singaporeans and permanent residents, aged 20 and older, showed that 96 per cent supported the death penalty. Most also wanted it to remain mandatory for the crimes of murder, drug trafficking, the use of firearms, acts of treason and kidn
- FEBRUARY 11, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. IRANIAN RESISTANCE WARNS OF EXECUTION OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported that a number of political prisoners, among them supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), had disappeared, according to family members and other prisoners.
- FEBRUARY 10, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM CONSIDERS DROPPING DEATH PENALTY FOR NINE CRIMES
Vietnam is considering abolishing the death penalty for nine different crimes, including smuggling, fraud, counterfeiting and bribery, state-controlled media reported.
- FEBRUARY 10, 2006United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. PAKISTANI SPARED FROM DEATH FOLLOWING PARDON BY VICTIM’S FAMILY
Pakistani national Akthar Hussain, 70, on death row in the UAE, was to walk out a free man after receiving a pardon from the family of his Indian victim.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. PUTIN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR URGES DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION
Russia should abolish the death penalty in the near future, presidential council for civil society and human rights development Chairman Ella Pamfilova said.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED STATES. BUSH’S OK SOUGHT FOR EXECUTIONS
President Bush has been asked to authorize the executions of two men who have been on the military’s death row at Fort Leavenworth for a combined 35 years.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIA ASKS DEATH PENALTY FOR BESLAN HOSTAGE-TAKER
Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel asked judges to pass the death penalty on the sole surviving hostage-taker from the 2004 Beslan school massacre that killed more than 300 people, half of them children.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006BrazilDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. NO MERCY FOR BRAZILIAN DEATH ROW DRUG CONVICT IN INDONESIA
Indonesia's president rejected an appeal for clemency from Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, a Brazilian man sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into the country.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DECISION TO SENTENCE BESLAN TERRORIST TO DEATH SLAMMED
Russian human rights organizations slammed the decision to sentence Nurpashi Kulayev to death.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DUMA NOT TO RESUME DEATH PENALTY FOR BESLAN TERRORIST
the Russian State Duma will not lift the moratorium on the death penalty to punish Nurpasha Kulayev, the only surviving terrorist who participated in the Beslan school seizure in September 2004, vice speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament Vl
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. SENIOR MPS SPEAK UP ON DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORIST
Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma's committee on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural law, said that prosecutors' request for the death penalty for the man being tried for involvement in the Beslan terrorist attack that killed 331 people
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. MAN EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING, KILLING WOMAN
Robert Neville, a man who abducted a young woman while she rode her bicycle to work, then shot and killed her in a field near Dallas, was executed by lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS. TWO PEOPLE EXECUTED IN 2005, SUPREME COURT CHAIRMAN
two persons were put to death and eight people received life sentences in Belarus in 2005, Valyantsin Sukala, chairman of the Supreme Court, told reporters in Minsk.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006IsraelDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. TARGET KILLING IS 'EXECUTION WITHOUT TRIAL', ANNAN
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that Israel had the right to defend its citizens, but criticized the policy of targeted killings, saying that they were like, "executions without trial."
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006BahamasDEATH PENALTY
THE BAHAMAS. RIGHTS ADVOCATE OPPOSED TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Grand Bahama Human Rights Association Vice-president Joseph Darville said that he did not see anything good being achieved through capital punishment, as it only showed a disregard for the sanctity of human life.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDERING RELATIVE
a Saudi national was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of murdering a relative, the interior ministry said in a statement.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. STEPS MAY BE TAKEN TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, PUTIN
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested he might take steps towards abolishing the death penalty in Russia.
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA. MAN ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE AFTER DRUG CHARGE REDUCED
Zulkifli Latif escaped the death sentence after his drug trafficking charge was reduced to one of possession by the Malaysian High Court.