News on the topic: death penalty
09.12.2011 Tatsiana Hatsura gets fined on her birthday
Civil activist and a mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsuara (pregnant at the time) turns 31 today.
08.12.2011 Belarusian believers against execution of Kanavalau and Kavaliou
About twenty believers, who hold daily prayers near St. Symon and Alena Church in the center of Minsk, addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka in connection with the issue of the death verdict to Kanavalau and Kavaliou and the related hunger-strike of Sviatlana Chornaya.
08.12.2011 Polish human rights defenders ask Lukashenka to pardon Kanavalau and Kavaliou
The Polish Helsinki Human Rights Foundation and the initiative “Horizon – against the death penalty” addressed Aliaksandr Lukashenka with an appropriate appeal.
07.12.2011 Bialynichy procuracy pays interests to activities of Amnesty International expert
Six years ago a terrible family murder was committed in the village of Vialikaya Mashchanitsa. Six people were killed, including two small children. A day later five villagers, aged 18-24, were detained. Soon they were charged with the murder. The investigation lasted for almost 1.5 years.
07.12.2011 30,000 Spanish citizens sign against executions in Belarus
The campaign by Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of one of the convicts in the 11 April metro blast case, yielded more than 30,000 signatures at the popular Spanish website Actuable.es.
07.12.2011 Minsk: mother of many children protests against death penalty
Mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsura has conducted a special performance together with her children.
01.12.2011 Uladzislau Kavaliou's mother petitions Lukashenka
Uladzislau Kavaliou’s mother brought a petition for pardon of her son to Lukashenka’s outer office. Her son had been sentenced to death in Minsk metro blast case. In her address Liubou Kavaliova informs that she raised her son and daughter alone. “No one could reproach me ever with unworthily upbringing of my children,” the woman writes. She is sure that her son "could not have committed that hideous crime for which he had been convicted,” BelaPAN informs.
01.12.2011 AI and EU speak against execution of persons charged with terrorist attack in Minsk metro
After the verdict of the Supreme Court of Belarus to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou has become known, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland has called upon Belarusian authorities not to carry into execution the judgment of death. BelaPAN has been informed about that by the press-service of the Council of Europe.
01.12.2011 Death penalty for two men in Belarus
The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International.
30.11.2011 Supreme Court passes death verdict in subway bombing trial
Today, the Supreme Court of Belarus sentenced Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou to death on charges of plotting and executing several explosions, including a powerful blast in the Minsk underground on 11 April 2011, which claimed 15 lives.
28.11.2011 “Once you’ve killed an innocent person, you cannot set it back”
On 28 November the Minsk office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee hosted a press-conference on the upcoming verdict in the 11 April 2011 subway bombing trial in the context of the death penalty.
28.11.2011 Human rights defenders demand not to execute the death verdicts to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou
Belarusian human rights defenders strongly condemn the state prosecutor’s request to sentence to death Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou, defendants in the 11 April 2011 subway bombing trial.
23.11.2011 Mother of defendant in subway bombing trial pleas for protection
Mrs. Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, currently standing trial for alleged involvement in a number of explosions, including a metro blast on 11 April 2011, has released an online petition for the public protection to the defendants.
20.11.2011 Stop murder – in the name of the people!
The Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty are calling upon everyone to help save human lives by signing the online petition against the possible execution of Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou.
14.11.2011 Prosecutor demands capital punishment for accused of terrorist acts in Belarus
Deputy prosecutor general Aliaksei Stuk, who represents state prosecution in the case of a terrorist attack in Minsk metro on 11 April, blasts in Minsk in 2008 and in Vitsebsk in 2005, demands the court to sentence both accused, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavaliou, to death penalty without confiscation of assets, Interfax-Zapad news agency reports.
