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Disabled man goes on hunger-strike to protest against death penalty
He also refused to take medicines. Valery Hancharenka demands to improve treatment conditions for TB patients. Read more…
Tatsiana Hatsura fined
Human rights activists and journalists were not allowed to enter the court room by two persons in plainclothes. The presiding judge was Andrei Khadanovich. Read more…
Boxes with 165,000 petitions to Lukashenka sent to Presidential Administration
“Amnesty International” demands from Aliaksandr Lukashenka to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty. It was stated at today’s press-conference by the organization’s researcher Heather McGill. Read more…
Over 250,000 people call on Belarus to end executions
Amnesty International and Belarusian human rights organizations Viasna and Belarus Helsinki Committee were today turned away from delivering a global petition to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, calling for an end to executions in Belarus. Read more…
Tatsiana Hatsura gets fined on her birthday
Civil activist and a mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsuara (pregnant at the time) turns 31 today. Read more…
Belarusian believers against execution of Kanavalau and Kavaliou
About twenty believers, who hold daily prayers near St. Symon and Alena Church in the center of Minsk, addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka in connection with the issue of the death verdict to Kanavalau and Kavaliou and the related hunger-strike of Sviatlana Chornaya. Read more…
Polish human rights defenders ask Lukashenka to pardon Kanavalau and Kavaliou
The Polish Helsinki Human Rights Foundation and the initiative “Horizon – against the death penalty” addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka with an appropriate appeal. Read more…
Bialynichy procuracy pays interests to activities of Amnesty International expert
Six years ago a terrible family murder was committed in the village of Vialikaya Mashchanitsa. Six people were killed, including two small children. A day later five villagers, aged 18-24, were detained. Soon they were charged with the murder. The investigation lasted for almost 1.5 years. Read more…
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…
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