News on the topic: death penalty
13.10.2014 Mahiliou: meeting on the World Day against the Death Penalty
October 10, Mahiliou human rights defenders held an event to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
13.10.2014 Biaroza activists call to introduce a moratorium on death penalty
On October 10, World Day against the Death Penalty, Biaroza human rights defenders and civil society activists signed postcards addressed to the President of the country, stating that "the death penalty violates the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is an extremely cruel, inhuman and degrading kind of punishment."
13.10.2014 Discussion on death penalty held in Babruisk
Babruisk human rights defenders discussed the topic of the death penalty together with students of language courses. The meeting was held on October 10 within the framework of the Week against the Death Penalty in Belarus.
13.10.2014 French Embassy invites to discussion on death penalty
The Embassy of France in Belarus holds a series of events dedicated to the struggle for the abolition of capital punishment, including a discussion in "Facebook" and "VKontakte", officially opened by Elsa Pignol, Counselor for Cooperation and Cultural Action in Belarus, and a public viewing of the film “Abolition”, followed by a discussion.
10.10.2014 Human rights defenders: a moratorium on the death penalty is needed first of all for the Belarusian society
On October 10, the World Day against the Death Penalty, Belarusian human rights activists gave a final press conference on the Week against the Death Penalty in Belarus.
10.10.2014 Who Needs Death Penalty?
On October 9, on the eve of the World Day against the Death Penalty, the presentation of a book by Valery Filipau “Who Needs the Death Penalty” was held at the office of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
10.10.2014 Baranavichy human rights defenders continue drawing public attention to the problem of the death penalty
October 9, Baranavichy human rights defenders and social activists continued their participation in the week against the death penalty. Human rights activist Siarhei Housha noted that the Baranavičy City Executive Committee traditionally did not allow for social and political actions, including those devoted to the International Day against the Death Penalty and International Human Rights Day.
09.10.2014 Karel Schwarzenberg: “I can't understand those who, having lived up to the 21st century, advocate the death penalty”
October 8, well-known Czech politician and public figure Karel Schwarzenberg took part in human rights activities together with representatives of the European embassies, members of the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Belarus.
09.10.2014 “Capital Punishment” visited by the mother of a death row prisoner
A resident of Vialeika Tamara Sialiun, whose son Pavel was executed on a verdict of the Hrodna Regional Court in April 2014, visited the photo exhibition of the journalist Siarhei Balai “Capital Punishment”. The heroines of this photo project are Sviatlana Zhuk, Liubou Kavaliova, Tamara Sialiun, Volha Hrunova and Tamara Chikunova – the mothers, whose children's lives were taken by the state under the guise of anti-human law.
09.10.2014 Human rights activist Tamara Chikunova in Homel: “Our indifference means consent to legalized murder”
On October 8, Homel human rights activists held a meeting within the framework of the Week Against the Death Penalty, which was attended by mothersof those sentenced to death: the founder of the public association "Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture" (Uzbekistan) Tamara Chikunova, Vileika resident Tamara Sialiun and Homel resident Volha Hrunova. Pavel Sialiun has been executed, Aliaksandr Hrunou is on death row now.
09.10.2014 Invitation to the public lecture of Tamara Chikunova
Today, October 9, a lecture of the human rights activist Tamara Chikunova, the founder and head of the Uzbek organization "Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture", will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery of "Goliaths" (Valhahradskaya Street, 4a, metro station “Maskouskaya”).
09.10.2014 International human rights defenders: Belarusian dictator openly supports the death penalty: the only hope is for the civil society (videos)
Chairperson of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Florence Bellivier and FIDH President Karime Lahidji video addresses on the occasion of the Week against the Death Penalty in Belarus.
09.10.2014 "Capital punishment": intentional murder in the name of law can't be justified (photo, video)
October 7, the presentation of the joint photo project “Capital Punishment” by the photo journalist Siarhei Balai and the campaign "Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus" took place in Minsk.
07.10.2014 Siarhei Balai: I put the question to which people need to answer on their own
Before the opening of the photo exhibition "Capital Punishment" depicting mothers of the executed death row convicts, its author, photographer Siarhei Balai, gave an interview to the Human Rights Centre "Viasna".
07.10.2014 Mother of victim of miscarriage of justice: “Thanks God I didn't give in to the sense of revenge”
Having lost her only son, who was executed innocent, she became the mother of all death row prisoners in Uzbekistan. Having achieved the abolition of the death penalty in the country, she is fighting for its abolition primarily in Belarus. Tamara Chikunova is a guest of honor of the Belarusian Week Against the Death Penalty and one of the heroines of the photo project "Capital Punishment", which tells the story of a mother of death row convict.
