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Flash mob against death penalty in Zurich

Zurich activists of Amnesty International staged on Saturday a flash mob against the death penalty in Belarus.

In one of the main streets of the Swiss city the activists and human rights defenders placed dozens of symbolic tombstones with inscriptions about the death penalty in Belarus and the recent death verdict for Ryhor Yuzepchuk.

According to Amnesty International’s Facebook account, the activists were lying still around the tombstones.

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The right to life was violated. The UN Human Rights Committee responded to the Belarusian authorities on Berazhny and Hershankou executed in 2018

Among the violations, the committee found a violation of the right to a fair trial, noted that no one can be arbitrarily deprived of life, and demanded that the Belarusian authorities pay appropriate compensation to the mothers of the punished.

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Only the effective part was announced at the trial, since part of the trial was held in closed session.

The prosecutor requested the death penalty for a man accused of murder

The prosecutor requested the death penalty for Aliaksandr Taratuta, who is accused of murdering a 3-year-old child