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International human rights defenders: Belarusian dictator openly supports the death penalty: the only hope is for the civil society (videos)
Chairperson of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Florence Bellivier and FIDH President Karime Lahidji video addresses on the occasion of the Week against the Death Penalty in Belarus. Read more…
"Capital punishment": intentional murder in the name of law can't be justified (photo, video)
October 7, the presentation of the joint photo project “Capital Punishment” by the photo journalist Siarhei Balai and the campaign "Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus" took place in Minsk. Read more…
Siarhei Balai: I put the question to which people need to answer on their own
Before the opening of the photo exhibition "Capital Punishment" depicting mothers of the executed death row convicts, its author, photographer Siarhei Balai, gave an interview to the Human Rights Centre "Viasna". Read more…
Mother of victim of miscarriage of justice: “Thanks God I didn't give in to the sense of revenge”
Having lost her only son, who was executed innocent, she became the mother of all death row prisoners in Uzbekistan. Having achieved the abolition of the death penalty in the country, she is fighting for its abolition primarily in Belarus. Tamara Chikunova is a guest of honor of the Belarusian Week Against the Death Penalty and one of the heroines of the photo project "Capital Punishment", which tells the story of a mother of death row convict. Read more…
Invitation to photo exhibition “Capital Punishment”
The joint protect of the photojournalist Siarhei Balai and the campaign "Human Rights Defenders Against Death penalty in Belarus" will be presented on October 7 at the gallery "Goliaths" (Valhahradskaya Street, 4a, metro station “Maskouskaya”). The event will begin at 6 p.m. Read more…
Week Against Death Penalty: News from Belarusian regions
Human rights activities within the framework of the Week Against the Death Penalty in Belarus are held in Belarus on October 5-10 under the slogan "Death Penalty Is Murder". Read more…
Week Against Death Penalty opens with poster exhibition
October 5, the Week against the Death Penalty started in Minsk. It was opened with an exhibition of posters dedicated to this issue. The majority of them belong to a project of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, “Death Is Not Justice”. The logical centre of the exhibition was formed by a series of works “Six Arguments Against the Death Penalty”, created by a Belarusian artist from Vilnius, Siarhei Ablazhei. Read more…
Aleh Ablazhei: It is difficult to convey death penalty by artistic allegories
October 5, an exhibition of a well-known Belarusian artist from Vilnius Aleh Ablazhey opens in Minsk as a part of the Week Against the Death Penalty. Read more…
Week against Death Penalty to start with poster exhibition
October 5, an exhibition of posters dedicated to the problem of the death penalty opens in Minsk. The visitors will be showed a series of short films "Six Arguments against Death Penalty", specially created by the Belarusian artist from Vilnius Aleh Ablazhei, and worksfrom the large-scale project Death Is Not Justice, submitted to the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Read more…
Andrei Paluda: “Just think for a moment, how does the killing of a killer take place?!”
In Belarus, the Week against the Death Penalty is held for the second year already. The main message of this year's Week is "Death penalty is murder". The week against the death penalty will be accompanied by very expressive images of the performers of the death penalty and the victim. Read more…
Presentation of “Who Needs Death Penalty” to take place October 9
The book was issued within the framework of the project for abolishment of the death penalty “Because We Are People!”, implemented by the international organization Penal Reform International and a number of Belarusian NGOs with the assistance of the European Union. Read more…
Human rights activists announce a Week Against the Death Penalty in Belarus
Various human rights activities will be held from 5 to 10 October under the slogan "The death penalty is murder". The events will be attended by honorary foreign visitors, ambassadors, famous creative people, relatives of executed convicts shot and sentenced to death, advocates and activists of the abolitionist movement in Belarus. Read more…
Round table on death penalty held in Homel
On September 5, a round table "Because we are human beings: theory and practice in the discussions on the topic of the value of human life" was held in Homel.It was attended by human rights activists, lecturers of universities and representatives of the Interfaith Mission "Christian Social Service". Read more…
Uladzimir Khilmanovich: “Right to Life”
A week and a half ago I had to help the mother of an executed convict to take back his belongings, which was psychologically hard. Killing one person can not fix the death of another. The principle of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" belongs to the Old Testament. Present Christian world lives mainly on the principles of the New Testament. Read more…
Last Dawn presented in Bialynichy district
On August 28, Bialynichy district hosted a presentation of the multimedia project Aposhni Zolak (“Last Dawn”). The event was arranged in the framework of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty”. It also included the screening of an animated film entitled The Executioner. Read more…
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