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Police prevent executed person’s mother from contacts with journalist
Vitsebsk police attempted to prevent Russian journalists from interviewing the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, executed in March on charges of plotting a terrorist attack in Minsk underground back in April 2011. Read more…
Documentary On Death Penalty Seized In Belarus
HRODNA, Belarus -- Belarusian authorities have seized copies of a documentary film about the use of the death penalty in Belarus. Read more…
Belarusian MFA informed UN about suspension of execution on the day when Kavaliou was fuzilladed
Liubou Kavaliova, mother of death convict Uladzislau Kavaliou, and his sister, Tatsiana Kaziar, have received official information from the Office of the Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights. This information had been passed to it by representatives of the Belarusian government at the UN Geneva office on 15 March 2012 – the day when Uladzislau Kavaliou had been executed by shooting. Read more…
"Young Front" addresses MPs concerning death penalty moratorium
Civil organization "Young Front", officially registered in the Czech Republic, addressed all members of the Chamber of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus with the demand to initiate a voting on introducing a death penalty moratorium in Belarus. Read more…
Additional information on Kavaliou's case submitted to UN
Additional information concerning the case of death convict Uladzislau Kavaliou was submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee by his mother and sister, Liubou Kavaliova and Tatsiana Kaziar. Read more…
Uladzislau Kavalyou shot on Constitution Day
It is indicated in his death certificate. Read more…
Amnesty International: Alarming levels of executions in the few countries that kill
Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death sentences and executions. Read more…
CE Committee of Ministers condemns executions in Minsk
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a declaration on March 22 deploring the execution of Kanavalau (Konovalov) and Kavalyou (Kovalev). Read more…
BHC statement on execution of Kanavalau and Kavaliou
Belarusian Helsinki Committee deeply regrets the execution of the death penalty against Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou. Read more…
Ukraine condemned executions in Belarus
Ukraine supports the statement of the European Union which condemns the execution by the Belarusian authorities of the persons charged with terrorist attack in Minsk metro. Read more…
International civil society gorups release statement on execution of Uladzislau Kavalyou and Dzmitry Kanavalau
It was learned on 17 March 2012 that Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou, the two men sentenced to death in connection with the Minsk subway explosion in April 2011, had been executed. Read more…
UN Accuses Belarus of Violating International Obligations
The United Nations Human Rights Committee voiced its grave concern over the execution of Dmitri Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalev. The latter filed a complaint to the committee, claiming fraudulent trial of his case and the pressure exerted upon him. Read more…
Russia Calls on Minsk to Join Moratorium on Death Penalty
Russia wants all European countries including Belarus to join the moratorium on the death penalty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in his interview with radio station Kommersant FM. Read more…
Belarus must release bodies of convicts executed over Minsk metro bombing
The execution of two men convicted of carrying out a deadly metro bombing last year in Minsk has been condemned by Amnesty International as it called on the Belarus authorities to release the bodies to their families for burial. Read more…
FIDH strongly condemns the execution of two young men after a blatantly unfair trial
"These executions are a further illustration of the total absence of an independent judiciary in Belarus, since the guilt of the two young men has not been clearly established and the trial was not fair. These capital shootings look like a way to silence two disturbing witnesses", said Souhayr Belhassen, President of FIDH. Read more…
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