News on the topic: death penalty
10.04.2014 Brest resident to be punished for picket against quick execution of death sentences
The action, which was attended by Dzmitry Rabtsevich, took place on 28 March, when he went into the city center with a banner on which was written "No toFast Executions" and "Life or Death".
09.04.2014 Mikhail Hladki: 8 years in jail for nothing, no compensation provided
In 2003, Mikhail Hladki was sentenced to 8 year of imprisonment for allegedly killing his brother. He served almost the whole prison term before it was found that the real killer was Eduard Lykau, who is now kept in the Minsk remand prison after being sentenced to death.
09.04.2014 Animated film “Executioner” to be shown at “Cinema Perpetuum Mobile 2014”
The animated film “Executioner”, created by a group of volunteers of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in the campaign "Human Rights Defenders against the death penalty" was selected for display at the International Short Film Festival "Cinema Perpetuum Mobile" (Cinema Perpetuum Mobile in 2014).
09.04.2014 Prosecutor's Office refuses to reopen Uladzislau Kavaliou's case due upon new evidence
The mother and sister of the Vitsebsk dweller who had been charged with staging the blast in Minsk metro on April 11, 2011 and sentenced to capital punishment, addressed the Prosecutor General AliaksandrKaniuk with a request to reopen the criminal case in view of discovery of new facts, RFE/RL informs.
08.04.2014 Another death sentence issued in Belarus
26-year-old Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou has been repeatedly sentenced to death. According to the lawyer, the young man does not believe that he can be pardoned by the President, and therefore he is not sure whether he will apply for clemency.
07.04.2014 Hary Pahaniaila: It's time to review the law on death penalty
Human rights activist Hary Pahaniaila tells why the death penalty is torture for relatives of the executed, about the "right to kill" and the subjectivity of judges.
31.03.2014 Human rights defenders fighting for reprieve of death verdicts
A number of Brest human rights defenders sent to the Council of Ministers a proposal to amend the Criminal Code in order to allow a five-year stay of executions, says one of the campaigners, human rights lawyer Raman Kisliak.
21.03.2014 Relatives of death convict Uladzislau Kavaliou ask Supreme Court to declassify place of burial
Mother and sister of Uladzislau Kavaliou executed on charges of organizing a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro in 2011 have sent a supervisory appeal to the Chairman of the Supreme Court. They ask to cancel the decision of the Court of Minsk’s Kastrychnitski district and the Board of Civil Affairs of the City Court. Both courts refused to institute civil proceedings against the KGB, the Interior Ministry and the Department of Corrections over their refusal to provide information about the burial place of their son.
20.03.2014 Death convict Lykau’s appeal to be heard on 15 April
It has become known that the cassation appeal in the case of Eduard Lykau, who was sentenced to death, will be considered by the judicial board for criminal cases of the Supreme Court on April 15. The hearing will open at 9.30 a.m.
17.03.2014 Brochures with UN HRC decision in Uladzislau Kavaliou case distributed in Brest
Belarus has once again ignored a decision of the UN Human Rights Committee, as the authorities have not printed or distributed the international body’s opinion in the case of Uladzislau Kavaliou executed on charges of committing a terrorist act in the Minsk metro. As a result, the death convict’s mother, Liubou Kavaliova, printed the Committee’s decision at her own expense.
12.03.2014 Innocent man walks free after 29 years on death row
A man who has spent three decades on death row has walked free after a US judge set aside his conviction.
12.03.2014 Liubou Kavaliova: Decision of the Human Rights Committee of the UN concerning the violations in the case of my son must become a reference book for all judges
March 12, mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, executed by shooting on the verdict of teh Supreme Court, paid a visit to the Chairman of the Vitsebsk Regional Court Mikalai Khamichenka Hamichenka. He did not allow her to distribute brochures with the decision of the UN HRC decision and threatened that such actions would be regarded as illegal picketing.
12.03.2014 Relatives of Uladzislau Kavaliou address Prosecutor General
Liubou Kavaliova, mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, one of the two people executed by shooting two years ago on charges of committing a terrorist act in the Minsk metro, and his sister Tatsiana Kaziar have filed an appeal to Prosecutor General of Belarus Aliaksandr Kaniuk demanding that the investigation into the case to be re-opened due to new circumstances, with the subsequent rehabilitation of the convict.
03.03.2014 Anatomic theater in Uppsala, Sweden
The last death execution in Sweden was conducted in 1910 –by the guillotine. And in the XVIIth century executions were carried out by hanging and gathered many spectators.
20.02.2014 Supreme Court to consider appeal against repeated death sentence for Aliaksandr Hrunou
The Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court is expected to hear on April 8 an appeal filed by Aliaksandr Hrunou, 25, who was repeatedly sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a woman.
