Say NO to the death penalty in Belarus

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.

V World Congress against the Death Penalty was held on 12-15 June in Madrid (following the Congresses in Strasbourg (2001), Montreal (2004), Paris (2007) and Geneva (2010)). On 14 June the round table "Europe: A Strategy for the Future" was held, focusing on the relations between the European Union, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and Belarus and Russia on the issue of the death penalty. Human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich, a leader of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, took part in the work of the round table. On 15 June a March against against the Death Penalty was held in the streets of Madrid.