Individual communication of the death convict Pavel Seliun registered at the UN
This was reported on 10
October by the coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders
against the Death Penalty in Belarus Andrei Poluda, the trustee of
the convict.
In connection with this, an appeal was directed
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus to
inform that the individual appeal of Pavel Mikalayevich Seliun was
registered by the UN Human Rights Committee under No. 2289/2013. "In
accordance with rule 92 of the Rules of Procedure, the state should
not execute a death sentence until the consideration of the
individual communication on its merrits,” the human rights
defenders remind the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In
their appeals to the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office, the
human rights defenders as the MIA not to
execute the death sentence handed down by the Supreme Court of the
Republic of Belarus against Pavel
Seliun before
the consideration of
his individual communication by the Human
Rights Committee of the United Nations Organization. The Prosecutor
General's Office is required to ensure the suspension of the
execution of the death sentence within the limits
of its competence.
The monitoring function in this case
belongs to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, in accordance with the Regulations of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, approved by the Council of Ministers
on 31 July 2006 No.
978, the human rights defenders
also ask Foreign
Minister to inform the
Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of
Internal Affairs about the
registration of the individual communication
of Pavel Seliun by the UN Human Rights Committee,
as well as to monitor
the implementation of international
treaties of the Republic of Belarus by these state agencies and
provide them with the necessary assistance in this respect.
The
need to send such appeals to the aforementioned state institutions is
due to the fact that previous death sentences were executed bythe
state before the consideration of their communications by the Human
Rights Committee, regardless the interim protection measures
requested by the Committee.
