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Statement by the International Commission against the Death Penalty on the execution of Aleh Hryshkawtsow and Andrey Burdyka in Belarus
They were sentenced to death in May 2010 and, according to several human rights organisations, have been executed without neither of them nor their families being notified in advance on their execution date. Read more…
UN committee says executions in Belarus violate international obligations
27 July 2011 – The United Nations Human Rights Committee today accused Belarus of violating its international agreements by executing two persons while their cases were still under review by the committee. Read more…
Amnesty International condemns recent executions in Belarus
The recent execution of a Belarusian man convicted of assault and murder does nothing to advance the cause of justice, Amnesty International said today. Read more…
Valiantsin Stefanovich: “Belarus should leave the UN and live under its own national laws”
“Under the UN procedures, Belarus should not have executed the death verdicts. However, our country, as I see it, once again ignores its obligations undertaken under the UN instruments”, said human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich in an interview to www.zautra.by, following reports of two death convicts being executed in Minsk last week. Read more…
Dead or alive? (updated)
Have the death sentences to Aleh Hryshkautsou and Andrei Burdyka been executed or not? This is the question incited by numerous reports quoting a publication in the state-owned “Vecherniy Grodno” newspaper of 20 July. Read more…
Two more death convicts executed in Belarus
Hronda residents Aleh Hryshkavets and Andrei Burdyka sentenced to death for alleged triple murder have been executed, the state-owned Vecherniy Grodno newspaper reports. Read more…
HR defenders release documentary on death penalty (video)
On 29 June, Minsk “Ў” gallery hosted the presentation of a documentary entitled “The cause of death is -------”, created as part of the “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty” civil campaign. Read more…
Parliaemntary Assembly of the Council of Europe urges US, Japan and Belarus to abolish the death penalty
On 14 April the Assembly today urged the US and Japan, as observer states to the Council of Europe, and Belarus, which aspires to membership, to join the growing consensus among democratic countries that protect human rights and human dignity by abolishing the death penalty. In a resolution based on a report by Renate Wohlwend (Liechtenstein, EPP/CD), PACE said: “The European experience has shown conclusively that the death penalty is not needed to check violent crime, and that political leaders who led the way towards abolition did not suffer any backlash from public opinion.” Read more…
President Lukashenka dismisses petition for pardon by two death convicts
President Lukashenka has dismissed the petition for pardon by Andrei Burdyka and Aleh Hryshkautsou, said deputy chair of Hrodna Regional Prosecutor’s Office Mrs. Sviatlana Rakhman in an ONT TV channel program “Nonclassified Materials” on 22 February. Read more…
Council of Europe Secretary General calls Belarus to adopt an immediate moratorium on executions
‘I am deeply disappointed and concerned by the decision taken on Friday by the Supreme Court of Belarus to confirm yet another death sentence in the country,’ said Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland. Read more…
Supreme Court leaves standing death verdict to jujutsu master Mialik
10 February the college board of the Supreme Court of Belarus, headed by the Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court Valery Kalinkovich considered the cassation appeal of a death convict, Homel resident Ihar Mialik. Read more…
Death convict calls upon President Lukashenka to suspend execution
Aleh Hryshkautsou, sentenced to death on 14 May 2010, has addressed President Lukashenka with a request to suspend executing the sentence until his case is considered by the UN human Rights Committee. Read more…
Death convict Hryshkautsou complains to the UN HR Committee
On 6 December the UN Human Rights Committee received an individual communication by Aleh Hryshkautsou, sentenced to death on 14 May 2010. The death convict argues that his right to fair trial provided by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was abused by the Belarusian judiciary. The communication also demands to apply measures of interim protection and suspend the execution. Read more…
Sviatlana Zhuk continues struggling for the right to know the place of burial of her son
On 13 December the Minsk City Court considered the cassation appeal of the mother of the executed convict Andrei Zhuk against the verdict of the Leninski District Court of Minsk concerning the refusal to bring an administrative case against the inaction of the MIA Punishment Execution Department that had refused to issue to her the body of the executed son or inform her about the place of his burial. Read more…
Bishkek: Cities for Life/Cities Against The Death Penalty
On 30 November the Chairperson of the Human Rights Center Viasna, vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski took part in the action Cities For Life/Cities Against The Death Penalty in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. Read more…
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