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Former US executioner signs the petition against the death penalty in Belarus
Referring to his experience, Jerry Givens, now an activist of the association "Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty" and author of the book "Another Day is Not Promised” believes that only a complete refusal of the State from the death penalty can prevent a miscarriage of justice. Read more…
A modern and just society cannot be based on the ideology of death: Abolish the death penalty!
The 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty is marked today, on October 10, 2013. Throughout the world, civil society activists and abolitionism associations unite to remind the international community about the absurdity of the punishment and the cruelty of executions. Read more…
Rock for human rights: Human rights defenders and musicians unite to oppose the death penalty
This issue of the human rights podcast is dated to the World Day against the Death Penalty, marked on 10 October. Read more…
Mechyslau Hryb and Andrei Paluda hold a discussion on the death penalty
Students and young people of Minsk took part in the discussion on the issue of the death penalty. The event was held in Minsk on 8 October under the sign of the "Week Against the Death Penalty", held by "Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty". Read more…
Death penalty in Belarus: UN expert calls to stop executions after recent court rulings
GENEVA (9 October 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, urged the Government of Belarus to start an immediate moratorium on executions before the relevant legislation and court system can be reformed and capital punishment can be removed from the country’s Criminal Code. Belarus is the only European country that still retains the death penalty for certain crimes during times of peace and war. Read more…
Tamara Chikunova about the irreversibility of the death penalty: “The posthumous vindication won't bring an innocent victim back to life ...”
On 1 January 2008 the death penalty was abolished in Uzbekistan. The human rights community of Uzbekistan contributed to this, but the greatest contribution must have been made by Tamara Chikunova, the founder of the human rights organization "Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture ", after her only son was executed by shooting. Read more…
Hrodna human rights defenders remind about the Universal Day against the Death Penalty
Hrodna human rights defenders Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Aliaksandra Vasilevich reminded Hrodna residents about the issue of the death penalty on the eve of the World Day against the Death Penalty, by going to a mass skating. There they skated in T-shirts with the slogan “Say NO to the Death Penalty!” Read more…
Belarusian musicians campaign against the death penalty
Belarusian musicians joined together in the project "Last Dawn", dedicated to the struggle for the abolition of the death penalty in the country. Read more…
Pavel Seviarynets: the system can punish innocent people with death
Co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Seviarynets strongly opposes the death penalty, as well as other leaders of the party. Although not all members of the party advocate the abolition of the death penalty, says Pavel Seviarynets: Read more…
PACE: the release of political prisoners and a moratorium on the death penalty are the obligatory per-requisites for the beginning of a dialogue with Minsk
The release of political prisoners and the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Belarus are the obligatory conditions for the dialogue of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with the Belarusian authorities. This is stated in the statement of the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, published on 3 October on the site of the Assembly. Read more…
Belarusian musicians speak against the death penalty
The rock concert “Last Dawn” was broadcast on-line by the web-page of the newspaper “Nasha Niva” and the websites tut.by and naviny.by. Creative persons united to remind that Belarus is the only country in Europe where the death penalty is not only permitted, but actively used. Read more…
Results of “Satio” survey: society is under-informed about the death penalty
Sociological company Satio conducted a large research on crime and punishment in Belarus. Read more…
In the death row cell (video)
The new video, dedicated to the topic of the death penalty, successfully combines video shots from real death row cells and a fragment of a performance which was demonstrated during the V World Congress against the Death Penalty in Madrid. The film was edited by film director Viktar Tratsiakou. Read more…
Journalists are invited to a press-conference on the World Day against the Death Penalty
The press-conference will be held with the participation of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty” Valiantsin Stefanovich and Andrei Paluda, as well as the relatives of death convicts. Read more…
Priest Aliaksandr Shramko: “Death penalty contradicts the Gospel”
The Orthodox priest Aliaksandr Shramko, who serves in the church of St. Archangel Michael in the Sukharava neighbourhood in Minsk, reflects on the reasons to abolish the death penalty. Read more…
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