News on the topic: death penalty
10.10.2016 "Let our actions always be guided by the moral compass of human rights", UN Secretary-General Says on World Day Against Death Penalty
"The death penalty is a cruel and inhumane practice. It has no place in the twenty-first century," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a message on the World Day against the Death Penalty, which is observed on October 10.
10.10.2016 Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)Lawful Grounds. English version available online
"Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)Lawful Grounds", a joint report prepared by the International Federation for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, is finally available online, after the Russian original has been translated into English.
06.10.2016 CoE deplores confirmation of death sentence against Siarhei Vostrykau
"Yesterday’s decision of the Supreme Court of Belarus to uphold the death verdict for Siarhei Vostrykau is deeply disappointing," the Spokesperson of the Council of Europe's Secretary General said in statement on October 5.
06.10.2016 FIDH expert: “There were just us and the dogs in the courtroom!”
On October 5, the Minsk Press Club hosted the presentation of a joint report on the death penalty in Belarus, which was prepared by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Human Rights Center "Viasna".
05.10.2016 Human rights activist asks Pope to discuss the death penalty with Lukashenka
Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign "Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus", has sent a letter to Pope Francis, asking him to touch upon the issue of capital punishment during his future meeting with President Lukashenka.
05.10.2016 EU 'reaffirms strong opposition' to capital punishment after Supreme Court upholds another death verdict
Today, 4 October, the Belarusian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against Siarhei Vostrykau. This is the fourth confirmation by the Belarusian Supreme Court of a death sentence in 2016.
05.10.2016 Death Penalty in Belarus: New report reveals grave rights violations
In Belarus, the rights of people sentenced to death are violated at all stages of the legal proceedings, making the application of death penalty in the country unlawful and arbitrary, said today FIDH and HRC "Viasna" in Minsk during the presentation of their report "Death Penalty in Belarus : Murder on (Un)Lawful Grounds".
04.10.2016 Supreme Court confirms death sentence for Siarhei Vostrykau
The Supreme Court has upheld the death verdict handed down to Siarhei Vostrykau.
04.10.2016 Viasna and FIDH to present report “Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)Lawful Grounds”
On October 5, the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) will present a joint report “Death Penalty in Belarus: Murder on (Un)Lawful Grounds”. The event will be held within the framework of the Week against the Death Penalty.
29.09.2016 Andrei Paluda: “2 of 16 death convicts in Belarus are Roma”
Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus, took part in the working session “Tolerance and non-discrimination, including Roma and Sinti issues, including implementation of the OSCE Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti” held yesterday in Warsaw as part of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting.
04.08.2016 UN Human Rights Committee registers Siarhei Khmialeuski’s complaint
On August 3, the UN Human Rights Committee has confirmed the registration of an individual communication submitted on behalf of Siarhei Khmialeuski, who was sentenced to death on February 15.
22.07.2016 UN Human Rights Committee registers complaint of Henadz Yakavitski, asks for respite
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has registered an individual communication submitted on behalf of Henadz Yakavitski, who was sentenced to death on 5 January for murdering his partner back in July 2015.
05.07.2016 World Congress against the Death Penalty calls on retentionist states to ratify Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
Retentionist states should “follow the 81 countries that have already ratified the UN Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, says the Final Declaration of the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty, which was held in Oslo on June 21-23.
04.07.2016 Belarus denies asylum to Iranian refugee facing death in home country
The Centraĺny District Court of Minsk has upheld the decision of the Department of Citizenship and Migration, which earlier rejected a refugee application by Mehrdad Jamshidian, an Iranian national sentenced to death in his home country for allegedly killing his mother and brother, nn.by said.
30.06.2016 Death row secrets. Part 3
Representatives of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus” have gathered memories and testimonies of former prison staff and former inmates, their family members, part of which has been used to prepare this publication.
