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- 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, 2003DEATH 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
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- 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