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51,052 ARTICLES · 1999—2026The news from the three battles.
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- JANUARY 10, 2000DEATH PENALTY
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced...
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced Sammy Hachim and Khalil Algadba, two Lebanese men, to death for currency trafficking and spying for rebels holding the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 10, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution...
Fatemeh Morad-Gholi, an Iranian woman fearing persecution for making pornographic films in her home country, was denied refugee status in Australia
- JANUARY 10, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement...
Akbar Mohammadi and Ahmad Batebi, accused of involvement in the 1999 student demonstrations, had their sentences approved by the Supreme Court
- JANUARY 10, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death...
Douglas Christopher Thomas, 26, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- JANUARY 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed...
The Sunday Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper revealed that executed prisoners' organs were offered to Hong Kong patients at Guangdong's main transplant hospital for up to $300,000 each
- JANUARY 9, 2000DEATH PENALTY
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its...
South Korea's National Red Cross Society urged its Chinese counterpart not to repatriate a group of seven North Koreans who had fled their hunger-stricken communist homeland
- JANUARY 9, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against...
Fashion giant Benetton joined Italy's offensive against the death penalty with its 2000 advertising campaign called "We, On Death Row
- JANUARY 9, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was...
Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that it was his country's international obligation to wait for a European court ruling on the death sentence handed down on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan
- JANUARY 9, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and...
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that when the file of Abdullah Ocalan, the head terrorist, was taken to the parliament, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) would vote for execution of Ocalan
- JANUARY 7, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law...
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law firm, CMS McKenna, who led a team of British lawyers who acted for David Mitchell without charge, criticised the speed with which the Bahamian authorities had acted as a breach of international law
- JANUARY 7, 2000BermudaDEATH PENALTY
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing...
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing the death penalty and flogging in Bermuda
- JANUARY 7, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the...
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, were executed, a high-ranking official in the Uzbek Prosecutor-General's Office said