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Baranavichy human rights activists hold street action on World Day against the Death Penalty
On 10 October the Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil activists marked the World Day against the Death Penalty. Read more…
"Cause of Death __" documentary shown in Mahiliou
The showing, organized by the local human rights defenders, wasdated to the World Day against the Death Penalty, 10 October. Read more…
Streamers “NO to Death Penalty” appeared in the center of Minsk
Youth activists hanged out the banners to mark the World Day against the Death Penalty and draw the public attention to the problem of the ongoing use of this kind of punishment. Read more…
Today is the World Day against the Death Penalty
The idea to mark the Day against the Death Penalty belongs to the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which includes about 40 human rights organizations, including “Amnesty International”, as well as bar associations, unions and local governments from all over the world. In September 2007 the Board of Ministers of the European Council decided to mark the European Day against the Death Penalty within the framework of the World Day, as far as Europe is a space which has been factually free from the death penalty since 1997. Read more…
Mahiliou: volunteers detained for stickers against death penalty
Several volunteers were detained for distributing stickers on 8 October, on the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October. Read more…
EU Ambassadors present a démarche to Foreign Ministry of Belarus to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty
On 2 October, to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October), the Ambassador of Latvia to Belarus, together with the Ambassadors of France and Italy in Belarus and representatives from the European Union Delegation in Minsk presented a démarche to the Foreign Ministry of Belarus to repeatedly draw attention of Belarusian authorities to the issue of abolishing capital punishment in Belarus. Read more…
Mother of executed death convict Uladzislau Kavaliou files review appeal to Supreme Court
Liubou Kavaliova demands the reversal of the death sentence according to which Uladzislau Kavaliou and Dzmitry Kanavalau were executed on charges in committing a terrorist act in the Minsk metro on 11 April 2012. Read more…
Mother of executed terrorist keeps demanding to regain son’s prison notes
Mrs. Liubou Kavaliova, mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou executed for plotting a blast in Minsk metro in April 2011, keeps demanding to return her son’s prison notes. Read more…
Liubou Kavaliova still trying to get her son's notes returned
The mother of executed Uladzislau Kavaliou wants KGB chief Vadzim Zaitsau to send a written reply to her demand to return her son's notes. Liubou Kavaliova told this BelaPAN news agency. Read more…
Mother sends fresh appeal to KGB chief over Kavalyow`s jail notes
The mother of Uladzislaw Kavalyow, one of the two young men executed in the subway bombing case this past spring, has sent a fresh appeal to the chief of the Committee for State Security (KGB) over the notes that her son made during and after his trial, reported the Belarus service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Saturday. Read more…
Liubou Kavaliova receives no answer concerning secrecy surrounding bodies of death convicts
Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou who was executed on charges of terrorism, addressed various authorities, including Aliaksandr Lukashenka, with the request to be given the rationale for keeping in secret the place of the convicts' burial and the impossibility to issue their bodies to relatives. Read more…
Lyubou Kavalyova: “If they write like that, it's possible the wrong persons were executed!”
The mother of executed Uladzislau Kavalyou has received a letter with factual errors from the Prosecutor General's Office. Read more…
Liubou Kavaliova applies to KGB head
Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of the executed convict Uladzislau Kavaliou, didnt receive an answer of the KGB pre-trial prison administration towards her inquiry within the legal term (one month). In her letter to the KGB head Vadzim Zaitsau she writes that his subordinates violate the presidential decree about citizens' applications. Read more…
Berlin residents join campaign for abolition of death penalty in Belarus
Amnesty International’s office in Berlin held an action in support of a campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Belarus. Read more…
10 days of arrest for stickers “No to death penalty!”
On 24 April Ihar Shalai was detained near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Minsk for posting stickers “No to death penalty!” and guarded to the Savetski District Police Department by two police officers. Read more…
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