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30,000 Spanish citizens sign against executions in Belarus
The campaign by Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of one of the convicts in the 11 April metro blast case, yielded more than 30,000 signatures at the popular Spanish website Actuable.es. Read more…
Minsk: mother of many children protests against death penalty
Mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsura has conducted a special performance together with her children. Read more…
Uladzislau Kavaliou's mother petitions Lukashenka
Uladzislau Kavaliou’s mother brought a petition for pardon of her son to Lukashenka’s outer office. Her son had been sentenced to death in Minsk metro blast case. In her address Liubou Kavaliova informs that she raised her son and daughter alone. “No one could reproach me ever with unworthily upbringing of my children,” the woman writes. She is sure that her son "could not have committed that hideous crime for which he had been convicted,” BelaPAN informs. Read more…
AI and EU speak against execution of persons charged with terrorist attack in Minsk metro
After the verdict of the Supreme Court of Belarus to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou has become known, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland has called upon Belarusian authorities not to carry into execution the judgment of death. BelaPAN has been informed about that by the press-service of the Council of Europe. Read more…
Death penalty for two men in Belarus
The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International. Read more…
Supreme Court passes death verdict in subway bombing trial
Today, the Supreme Court of Belarus sentenced Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou to death on charges of plotting and executing several explosions, including a powerful blast in the Minsk underground on 11 April 2011, which claimed 15 lives. Read more…
“Once you’ve killed an innocent person, you cannot set it back”
On 28 November the Minsk office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee hosted a press-conference on the upcoming verdict in the 11 April 2011 subway bombing trial in the context of the death penalty. Read more…
Human rights defenders demand not to execute the death verdicts to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou
Belarusian human rights defenders strongly condemn the state prosecutor’s request to sentence to death Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou, defendants in the 11 April 2011 subway bombing trial. Read more…
Mother of defendant in subway bombing trial pleas for protection
Mrs. Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, currently standing trial for alleged involvement in a number of explosions, including a metro blast on 11 April 2011, has released an online petition for the public protection to the defendants. Read more…
Stop murder – in the name of the people!
The Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty are calling upon everyone to help save human lives by signing the online petition against the possible execution of Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou. Read more…
Prosecutor demands capital punishment for accused of terrorist acts in Belarus
Deputy prosecutor general Aliaksei Stuk, who represents state prosecution in the case of a terrorist attack in Minsk metro on 11 April, blasts in Minsk in 2008 and in Vitsebsk in 2005, demands the court to sentence both accused, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavaliou, to death penalty without confiscation of assets, Interfax-Zapad news agency reports. Read more…
The Thousand Year Journey: Death Penalty Abolition in the UK
From a great King, to Parliamentarians, from the earliest NGOs and onto the public street ….. a thousand year journey to ban the death penalty in the UK. British Ambassador in Belarus Rosemary Thomas writes. Read more…
The death penalty - does it defend or diminish the dignity of man?
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind..... John Donne, 16th Century English Poet Read more…
Killer state
Death convicts are executed every year only in one European country, Belarus. The state continues to take revenge on the criminals, forgetting about the principles of rehabilitation and just punishment, and thus becomes the murderer of its citizens. Read more…
Human rights defenders remind Belarusians about the problem of death penalty (photo report)
On 10 October, the World Day against the Death Penalty, civil activists and volunteers held informational actions in different parts of Belarus. In Minsk, activists of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty” came to Nezalezhnasts Avenue to remind passers-by that the Belarusian state still kills people. People eagerly took the informational booklets that were distributed by the human rights defenders. There are many people who are concerned with this problem. Some of them even started discussions with the activists. Read more…
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