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- FEBRUARY 5, 2000DEATH PENALTY
The families of the martyrs staged a demonstration...
The families of the martyrs staged a demonstration to protest the postponement of the execution of the capital punishment for [Kurdish leader] Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling from two earlier...
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling from two earlier trials sentencing Susumu Kitagawa, 52, to death for assaulting four women and killing two of them between 1983 and 1990
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesia's top generals must be imprisoned but not...
Indonesia's top generals must be imprisoned but not executed if found guilty by a tribunal investigating the slaughter on East Timor, according to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta
- FEBRUARY 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was beheaded for shooting dead another Saudi...
A man was beheaded for shooting dead another Saudi man after a dispute
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three people, convicted of forcing more than 50 women...
Three people, convicted of forcing more than 50 women into prostitution after luring them with promises of factory jobs, were executed
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Tokyo requested that Lebanon extradite five Japanese...
Tokyo requested that Lebanon extradite five Japanese Red Army members wanted on international terrorism charges including the 1972 Lod airport attack in Tel Aviv, which saw 26 people murdered
- FEBRUARY 3, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A special court for the suppression of terrorism condemned...
A special court for the suppression of terrorism condemned to death [a person identified only as] Shaukat for abducting a boy, Rashid (11) and committing unnatural offences with him in the area of Ghaziabad in 1999
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six leaders of a Chinese gang which butchered 77 people...
Six leaders of a Chinese gang which butchered 77 people between February 1998 and March 1999 with meat cleavers and scissors in a year-long orgy of rape and mutilation had been executed in Henan province
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three men were put to death in central Shaanxi province...
Three men were put to death in central Shaanxi province for stealing 15 murals from the tomb of an imperial concubine, Wei Guifei, a favourite of Tang dynasty emperor Li Shiming who lived 1300 years ago
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000DEATH PENALTY
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other...
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other prisoners were executed in and around Kinshasa between January 28 and February 2, 2000
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he might...
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said he might offer amnesty to a radical Moslem guerrilla faction because it had not massacred civilians
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A petition calling for the re-introduction of the death...
A petition calling for the re-introduction of the death penalty was handed to Port Alfred magistrate Walter le Grange just before three men accused of the brutal murder of Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter appeared in co