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UN criticizes Belarus for executing Pavel Sialiun
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has published its Views adopted in the case of Pavel Sialiun, who was sentenced to death in Belarus in June 2013. The Committee concludes that Pavel Sialiun's right to life under article 6 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was violated, since “the author was sentenced to death after an unfair trial.” Read more…
Join Cities for Life campaign (video)
The campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus” calls on everyone to join the action “Cities for Life – Cities against the Death Penalty”, which takes place on November 30 to celebrate the first abolition of the death penalty by a European state, decreed by Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor of Habsburg-Lorraine in 1786 for his Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Read more…
Issue of death penalty in Belarus still a priority for EU countries
The resumption of a dialogue between the EU and Belarus will become a platform for further discussion of the issue of the death penalty, said David Spiers, Deputy Chief of the UK Mission to Belarus, in an interview to the Human Rights Center “Viasna”. Read more…
Amnesty International asks to commute death sentence handed down to Ivan Kulesh
Amnesty International has urged President Lukashenka to "halt any planned executions and immediately commute the death sentence handed down to Ivan Kulesh and all others sentenced to death in Belarus", according to a statement released on November 24. Read more…
PACE rapporteurs express dismay at death sentence in Belarus
Two rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have expressed their dismay at a death sentence handed down in Belarus last week, and urged the authorities not to carry it out. Read more…
EU reiterates calls to abolish death penalty as new sentence handed down in Belarus
The European Union External Action Service has issued a statement on the death sentence handed down on November 20 to Ivan Kulesh by the Hrodna Regional Court. Read more…
Another death sentence handed down in Hrodna
The Hrodna Regional Court chaired by Judge Anatol Zayats has sentenced to death a resident of Lida District Ivan Kulesh. Read more…
Two persons face death verdicts in Homieĺ
The Homieĺ Regional Court has started hearing criminal charges of triple murder brought against two Romanies of Žlobin, Aliaksandr and Rubina, both 23, accused of killing three relatives in October last year. Read more…
MFA: International rules met in death convict’s case
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has replied to Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, who earlier notified the MFA about the registration of an individual communication submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Siarhei Ivanou, a resident of Rečyca sentenced to death in March 2015. Read more…
UN Secretary-General: "I Will Never Stop Calling for an End to the Death Penalty"
Calling the punishment "simply wrong," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has vowed to "never stop calling for an end to the death penalty." Speaking at the launch of a new book by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, "Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Arguments, Trends and Perspectives," the Secretary-General highlighted the worldwide decline of capital punishment, noting that "more and more countries and States are abolishing the death penalty." Read more…
Prosecutor asks to execute defendant in murder trial in Hrodna
On November 5, the Hrodna Regional Court heard the case of Ivan Kulesh, a resident of Lida district accused of triple murder, theft and robbery. As a result of the hearing, the prosecutor asked to punish the defendant with the capital punishment. Read more…
UN Human Rights Committee asks Belarus not to execute death convict
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has confirmed the registration of a communication submitted by Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus”, on behalf of Siarhei Ivanou, who was sentenced to death earlier this year. Read more…
Exhibition of posters against death penalty held in Almaty
A topical exhibition of the Belarusian artist Aleh Ablazhei started in the capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty, on the World Day against the Death Penalty. Read more…
Today is the World Day against the Death Penalty
October 10, 2015 the World Day against the Death Penalty, established by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, association of trade unions, local and regional authorities, legal associations and human rights organizations with a view to universal ban on this kind of penalty, is marked for the 13th time. Read more…
International solidarity is important in solving the problem of the death penalty in Belarus
October 9 in Minsk, human rights activists held a press conference dedicated to the World Day against the Death Penalty. Read more…
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