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Amnesty International issues annual review of the death penalty worldwide
“2015 saw a dramatic rise in the number of people executed – at least 1,634 – the highest recorded by Amnesty International since 1989,” says AI’s annual report on the death penalty in 2015. Read more…
EU Speaks Out Against Death Penalty In Belarus Again
An official representative of the European External Action Service (EEAS) has called upon Minsk to join the moratorium on the death penalty. Read more…
Supreme Court confirms death sentence for Ivan Kulesh
The Supreme Court’s Criminal Board has upheld the death sentence handed down to Ivan Kulesh on charges of triple murder, as well as attempted murder, theft and robbery committed in the Lida district in 2013 and 2014. Read more…
US expert: People face incorrect question in votes on the death penalty
Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, who took part in the thematic conference in Minsk, told the Human Rights Center "Viasna" about the evolution of public debate on the death penalty in the United States and shared his views on this issue in Belarus. Read more…
Kitchen TV: The issue of the death penalty in the US
The issue of the death penalty in the United States is of particular interest for the Belarusian human rights defenders, since the US is often cited as an argument for the retention of the death penalty in Belarus. Read more…
EU envoy Stavros Lambrinidis: Civilized countries should be above revenge and abolish the death penalty
Stavros Lambrinidis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, hopes that Belarus will soon be among the countries that have introduced a moratorium or even abandoned the use of the capital punishment. Read more…
PACE insists on moratorium on the death penalty in Belarus
“A world without the death penalty will not be weaker, it will only improve,” said Andrea Rigoni, representative of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, in his speech at today’s international conference in Minsk. Read more…
Death convict’s brother subject to pressure in a colony
Aliaxei Khmialeuski complains that he has been subject to unbearable pressure in Navasadskaya correctional colony No14 after death sentence was passed against his brother. Read more…
Pope Francis Calls Death Penalty Inappropriate "No Matter How Serious the Crime"
In a letter to the President of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, Pope Francis expressed the Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty, calling it "inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime committed." Read more…
OSCE/ODIHR Director calls on Belarus to introduce moratorium on death penalty
WARSAW, 18 February 2016 – Today, following the sentencing to death in Minsk of both Sergei Khmelevsky this week and Henadz Yakavitski on 5 January 2016, Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called on Belarus to introduce an immediate moratorium on the death penalty and its complete abolition. Read more…
EU reacts to new death sentence in Belarus
Statement by the Spokesperson on a new death sentence in Belarus Read more…
Belarus replies to complaint in death convict’s case
The Belarusian government has responded to a complaint submitted the UN Human Rights Committee by Volha Hrunova, the mother of Aliaksandr Hrunou, who was executed in 2014. The woman asked to declassify the burial place of her son, and then complained to the UN Human Rights Committee about inhuman and degrading treatment. Read more…
This year’s second death sentence handed down in Minsk (updated)
According to preliminary information received by representatives of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, the Minsk Regional Court has sentenced to death Siarhei Khmialeuski, 31, resident of the town of Mačuliščy, Minsk region. Read more…
Amnesty International asks to commute death sentence handed down to Henadz Yakavitski
President Lukashenka should "halt any planned executions and immediately commute the death sentence handed down to Gennadii Yakovitskii (Henadz Yakavitski) and all others sentenced to death in Belarus", says an urgent action press-release by Amnesty International of January 25. Read more…
Death convict escapes extradition to UAE, released from jail in Belarus
Pyotr Ivanik, a Russian national sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for having ordered the murder of his business partner back in 2011, has been released from jail No. 1 in Minsk, according to Aleh Khlyshchenka, head of the international legal department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus. Read more…
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