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Schulz condemns courts' decisions in Belarus
"Bialiatski should be released unconditionally along with the remaining political prisoners", says President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. Read more…
Sviatlana Chornaya continues hunger-strike against death verdict to Kanavalau and Kavaliou
The woman has been on a hunger-strike of protest against the death sentence to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou since December. The youngsters had been sentenced to death on charges of committing a terrorist act in the Minsk metro on 11 April 2011. Read more…
Uladzislau Kavalyou's mother and sister send appeal to UN
Relatives of one of Minsk metro terrorist act convicts sent a note on breaking the right for living to the Committee on Human Rights on December 15. Read more…
Victims of metro blast aren’t issued with copies of court verdict
On 12 December Inesa Krutaya, a victim of the 11 April explosion in the Minsk metro, applied to the Supreme Court with the request to be issued with a copy of the verdict to the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist act, Dzmitry Kanavalau anad Uladzislau Kavaliou. However, she still hasn’t received any answer. Read more…
Uladzislau Kavaliou files appeal for pardon
It was stated by Deputy General Prosecutor Aliaksei Stuk, reports interfax.by. Also, the General prosecution's representative stated that the convicts had not filed supervisory appeals yet. Read more…
Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou must not be executed!
FIDH strongly condemns the death sentences imposed by the Supreme Court of Belarus on Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou. Read more…
Mother of death convict Uladzislau Kavaliou writes complaints
Liubou Kavaliova applied for permission to meet with her son after the end of the trial, according to which he and Dzmitry Kanavalau were found guilty of committing the terrorist act in the Minsk metro on 11 April and a number of other crimes. She wanted to tell Uladzislau that she didn't believe that he was guilty and express support to him, as she was given just 30 minutes for a talk with him on 2 December. Read more…
Disabled man goes on hunger-strike to protest against death penalty
He also refused to take medicines. Valery Hancharenka demands to improve treatment conditions for TB patients. Read more…
Tatsiana Hatsura fined
Human rights activists and journalists were not allowed to enter the court room by two persons in plainclothes. The presiding judge was Andrei Khadanovich. Read more…
Boxes with 165,000 petitions to Lukashenka sent to Presidential Administration
“Amnesty International” demands from Aliaksandr Lukashenka to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty. It was stated at today’s press-conference by the organization’s researcher Heather McGill. Read more…
Over 250,000 people call on Belarus to end executions
Amnesty International and Belarusian human rights organizations Viasna and Belarus Helsinki Committee were today turned away from delivering a global petition to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, calling for an end to executions in Belarus. Read more…
Tatsiana Hatsura gets fined on her birthday
Civil activist and a mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsuara (pregnant at the time) turns 31 today. Read more…
Belarusian believers against execution of Kanavalau and Kavaliou
About twenty believers, who hold daily prayers near St. Symon and Alena Church in the center of Minsk, addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka in connection with the issue of the death verdict to Kanavalau and Kavaliou and the related hunger-strike of Sviatlana Chornaya. Read more…
Polish human rights defenders ask Lukashenka to pardon Kanavalau and Kavaliou
The Polish Helsinki Human Rights Foundation and the initiative “Horizon – against the death penalty” addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka with an appropriate appeal. Read more…
Bialynichy procuracy pays interests to activities of Amnesty International expert
Six years ago a terrible family murder was committed in the village of Vialikaya Mashchanitsa. Six people were killed, including two small children. A day later five villagers, aged 18-24, were detained. Soon they were charged with the murder. The investigation lasted for almost 1.5 years. Read more…
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