Amnesty International demands moratorium on death penalty from Lukashenka
Representative of this human rights organization Heather McGill has claimed it today, on December 9.
She will bring more than 160 thousand petitions from 30 countries to the President’s Administration today. All of them demand to impose a moratorium on the capital punishment in Belarus.
The appeal is connected with Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou’s case. Let us remind you that they were sentenced to death for the terrorist act in Minsk metro and a number of other blasts.
BelaPAN refers to McGill and informs that the death penalty that exists in Belarus violates the right for life. The UN Human Right Committee has also admitted that it was a torture for the convict’ relatives. The idea is based on the fact that relatives cannot receive the body, are never informed about the burial place and get to know about the execution too late, states the human rights activist.
In the first picture from the left to the right: Svyatlana Zhuk, mother of Andrei Zhuk shot 2 years ago, Lyubou Kavalyouva, Andrei Paluda, coordinator of the campaign “Human rights defenders against the death penalty” Valyantsin Stefanovich, deputy head of “Viasna” Heather McGill, representative of Amnesty International.
