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Informational action in central Minsk
December 10, “Viasna” activists congratulated passers-by on the Human Rights Day in the centre of Minsk, handing out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and information booklets on the death penalty. Read more…
Belarusian issues discussed in Lithuanian Seimas (photo)
On December 9, the eve of Human Rights Day, Vilnius hosted a discussion attended by Belarusian and Lithuanian human rights activists, community leaders and relatives of political prisoners, as well as a photo exhibition dedicated to the death penalty in Belarus. Read more…
Mother of executed Homel resident applies to Constitutional Court
On the eve of the Human Rights Day the mother of the executed death row convict Aliaksandr Hrunou, Volha Hrunova, asks the Constitutional Court to pay attention to collisions of the Criminal-Executive Code which prohibits to issue the bodies of the executed to their families or inform the families about the places of their burial, contrary to the Constitution of Belarus and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Read more…
Death row convict Eduard Lykau petitions Lukashenka for clemency
As reported by the Supreme Court, Eduard Lukau, sentenced to death by Minsk City Court, has filed a petition for clemency. Read more…
Salihorsk joins “Cities for Life – Cities Against Death Penalty” action
Salihorsk human rights activist have joined the annual action “Cities for Life – Cities Against Death Penalty”, held by the Catholic community of Sant'Egidio. Read more…
Bialynichy activists join “Cities for Life” campaign
Civil society activists distributed the book “Who Needs Death Penalty?” by Valery Filipau. The action was timed to the joint action "Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty", which is held on November 30 in many countries. Read more…
UN Human Rights Committee deplores Belarus execution
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is gravely concerned that Belarus has executed a person whose complaint was under consideration by the Committee. The Committee was informed that the death sentence against Aliaksandr Hrunou was carried out on 22 October 2014. Mr. Hrunou had been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by the Homel Regional Court in December 2013. Read more…
Join “Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty” campaign on November 30 (VIDEO)
The campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus” urges everyone to join the initiative “Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty”, which will take place on November 30. Read more…
Court refuses to disclose burial place to death convict’s mother
The Homel Regional Court, who earlier sentenced local resident Aliaksandr Hrunou to death, refused to disclose the death convict’s place of burial to his mother. Volha Hrunova has received a written ban signed by the Chairman of the Court Siarhei Shautsou. Now she is going to seek changes in the Belarusian legislation, which imposes a taboo on information about the burial site of executed prisoners, gomelspring.org reports. Read more…
Authorities keep torturing death convict’s mother (PHOTOS)
Volha Hrunova, the mother of Aliaksandr Hrunou, who was executed on October 22, 2014 for the murder of his friend Natallia Yemialyianchykava, has received his prison uniform. It was after receiving the package that the death convict’s mother realized that the death sentence was carried out. Read more…
Human rights defenders from Homel appealed to the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings
Homel Center for Strategic litigation sent a message to Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings. Human rights defenders in the report inform the Special Rapporteur on the serving an execution in respect of Homel resident Alexander Hrunou, which individual complaint is pending before the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Read more…
UN Human Rights Committee admits violation of Vasil Yuzepchuk's right to life by Belarus
The case of the resident of the Drahichyn district Vasil Yuzepchuk was considered by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in October 2014. The Committee admitted violation of paragraph 3 of Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as Yuzepchuk was not brought before a judge promptly to address the issue of his arrest. Read more…
Aliaksandr Hrunou's mother officially notified about execution of her son
As reported to the regional newspaper “Homelskaya Prauda” by the lawyer Siarhei Krasnou, the Homel Regional Court has sent an official notice to Volha Hrunova about the execution of Aliaksandr Hrunou. Read more…
Amnesty International: Belarus Must Stop Imminent Execution: Eduard Lykau
Amnesty International is deeply concerned that death row prisoner Eduard Lykau is at imminent risk of execution in Belarus. Read more…
Wife of Iranian Mehrdad Jamshidian tries to prevent his deportation from Belarus
The individual communication of the wife of the Iranian citizen Mehrdad Jamshidian Helena,sent from Belarus on October 23, was registered at the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and includes measures of urgency. Read more…
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