News on the topic: capital punishment
24.10.2008 Amnesty International representative attempts to meet with heads of law-enforcement ministries
Official representative of the human rights organization Amnesty International Heather McGill will visit Belarus. During the visit she plans to carry out a number of meetings with staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, and other bodies.
11.10.2008 More than 160 people were executed in Belarus for 11 years
Europe marks the Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October. Belarus is the only country in Europe where death penal wasn’t abolished and is used rather often.
10.09.2008 2008: one death sentence and three life sentences in Belarus
In 2008 in Belarus one person was sentenced to capital punishments and three – to lifelong imprisonment. This information was voiced at a press conference in Minsk on 9 September by the head of the Supreme Court Valiantsin Sukala. According to his information, at present 130 people are serving their life sentences in Belarus.
12.03.2008 Traffic Police Senselessly Put Citizens’ Lives in Danger
Traffic police officers barred the road with car with people inside to stop a drunk driver, rushing at 180 km/h.
11.02.2008 Amnesty International and Belarusian Helsinki Committee Condemn Executions of Convicts in Belarus
On 5 February 5 the Supreme Court of Belarus announced that Siarhei Marozau, the leader of a Homel-based criminal gang, and his close associates, Valery Harbaty and Ihar Danchanka, had been executed by shooting. The three were sentenced to death by shooting in a months-long trial that came to an end on 1 December 2006. The so-called Marozau Gang, which was said to have terrorized the Homel region between 1990 and 2004, was accused of 16 murders.
07.02.2008 Council of Europe Condemns Executions in Belarus
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis has made a special statement condemning execution of three members of a gang: Siarhei Marozau, and his close associates, Valery Harbaty and Ihar Danchanka.
29.11.2007 Van der Linden calls upon authorities of Belarus to abolish capital punishment
Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene van der Linden has called upon the authorities of Belarus to vacate death sentences to Syarhei Marozau, Ihar Danchenka and Valery Harbaty, who were sentenced to execution by the Supreme Court in 2006, the statement by the PACE head reads.
