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MAY 21, 2001China
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The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Number One People's...
The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Number One People's Court sentenced Wang Qibiao to death for tax evasion
MAY 21, 2001
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A 2-year moratorium on executions of death row inmates...
A 2-year moratorium on executions of death row inmates was rejected by the Assembly Judiciary Committee
MAY 21, 2001Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia beheaded two Saudi men for the separate...
Saudi Arabia beheaded two Saudi men for the separate murders of compatriots
MAY 21, 2001Libya
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A Tripoli court sentenced seven people to death for...
A Tripoli court sentenced seven people to death for their involvement in last year's bloody riots that Libyan officials said were part of a plot aimed at derailing Muammar Gaddafi's African unity drive
MAY 21, 2001Ukraine
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President Leonid Kuchma signed the Criminal Code that...
President Leonid Kuchma signed the Criminal Code that was recently approved by Parliament, thus ensuring that it will come into force
MAY 21, 2001
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The Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association...
The Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) released its progress report in which it stated a list of objectives for democratisation in Turkey
MAY 21, 2001Qatar
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A Qatar appeals court condemned to death Sheikh Hamad...
A Qatar appeals court condemned to death Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Hamad Al Thanin, a cousin of the country's emir, and 18 other defendants for their role in a foiled 1996 coup, overturning a lower court ruling giving the plotters life sentences
MAY 21, 2001Iran
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An Iranian woman convicted of acting in pornographic...
An Iranian woman convicted of acting in pornographic films was stoned to death in the prison where she had been held for eight years
MAY 21, 2001Yemen
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Shouai Ibrahim al-Matari executed by firing squad in...
Shouai Ibrahim al-Matari executed by firing squad in Hajjah province for murdering an unrelated man, Shouai Shabayn al-Matari, and his daughter, Qamamah
MAY 21, 2001
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Iran resumes death by stoning
May 21, 2001: an Iranian woman accused of acting in pornographic films was stoned to death in Tehran. She was the first convict to be executed by stoning since 1996. Another woman is due to be stoned in public for murdering her husband. Her male accomplic
MAY 20, 2001China
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Eight people were sentenced to death in Guizhou province...
Eight people were sentenced to death in Guizhou province for abducting and selling 42 children
MAY 20, 2001
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Turkish security forces have killed six people in the...
Turkish security forces have killed six people in the mountainous southeastern province of Bingol, state-controlled Anatolian news agency said