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    Belarus Executes Two Convicted Murderers, Prompting EU Criticism

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    Belarus has executed two convicted murderers, the human rights group Vyasna (Spring) said, prompting the European Union to redouble its calls for President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government to impose a moratorium on capital punishment.

    Vyasna cited the mother of Ihar Hershankou as saying on November 28 that she had been officially informed that the death penalty imposed on her son had been carried out.

    A day earlier, Vyasna cited relatives of Syamyon Berazhny as saying that they had been informed that the 31-year-old had been executed by shooting.

    Belarus is the only country in Europe and the former Soviet Union that executes prisoners, drawing persistent criticism from rights activists and EU nations.

    Berazhny, Hershankou, and two co-defendants were convicted of murder and kidnapping in July 2017, after investigators said they were members of a gang that killed elderly homeowners in order to acquire their apartments or houses.

    Berazhny and one of his co-defendants, Ihar Hershankou, were sentenced to death and the other two were sentenced to 22 and 24 years in prison.

    In June, the Supreme Court suspended the implementation of the death sentences against Berazhny and Hershankou amid calls by rights organizations not to execute the men.

    Amnesty International, which had earlier raised concerns about the planned executions, praised the Supreme Court decision at the time.

    The EU and rights groups have urged Belarus for years to join other countries in a moratorium on the death penalty.

    A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that "the European Union reaffirms its strong and unequivocal opposition to capital punishment in all circumstances."

    "The death penalty violates the inalienable right to life enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is a cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment," spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said in a statement.

    She called on Minsk "to introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards its abolition."

    "Tangible steps taken by Belarus to respect universal human rights, including on the death penalty, will remain key for shaping the EU's future policy towards Belarus," Kocijancic’s statement said.

    According to rights organizations, more than 400 people have been sentenced to death in Belarus since it gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

    Two convicts were reportedly executed in May.

    Kocijancic's statement said that four executions have been carried out in Belarus in 2018 and two people remain on death row.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-exec.../29625746.html
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    Ihar Hershankou was also executed on the 27th.

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    Man Accused Of Killing Two Girls In Babruisk Sentenced To Death

    By charter97.org

    36-year-old unemployed Babruisk resident Aliaksandr Asipovich was sentenced to death for the murder of two girls with extreme cruelty. On July 20, 2018 their bodies with signs of violent death were found in the bathroom of his apartment, according to tut.by.

    The accused met the victims in a cafe, from where all three of them took a taxi to his home. According to the prosecution, the defendant hit one of the victims with a hammer and his fists 77 times in the vital organs. The second victim received 16 wounds, almost all - in the head and neck. After that, Asipovich “took measures to dismember and conceal the corpses”.

    In his last word, Aliaksandr Asipovich said that he was fully aware of what had happened.

    - What could have provoked me to such actions, I do not know. I am a kind and sentimental man ... I repent of my deed and apologize to everyone. I ask the court to give me an opportunity to save my life, work and pay money to the families of the victims.

    The verdict has not entered into force and can be appealed.

    https://charter97.org/en/news/2019/1/9/319366/
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    Alyaksandr Asipovich death sentence was upheld today by the Supreme Court.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/belarusian-s.../29940461.html
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    I am pro-death penalty but the application of the death penalty is misandrist and thus needs to be rewritten since it only applies to men from 18 to 65. The EU has valid complaints about the way the death penalty is utilized in Belarus(which by the way is the most corrupt country in Europe!)

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    Those are valid concerns, but I mean, its their country so let them enforce their laws how they want. Kudos to them for carrying those laws out.

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    Another prisoner executed in Belarus

    Alyaksandr Zhylnikau, a convict under a sentence of death for murders, was executed, his family told human rights defender Andrey Paluda.

    On June 13, his defense lawyer was informed that the prisoner ‘had departed to serve his sentence’, HRC Viasna reports. When she asked whether Zhylnikau had been executed, prison officials confirmed it.

    In December 2015, Vyachaslau Sukharko and Alyaksandr Zhylnikau were found guilty of murdering three people.

    One more defendant in the case, Alina Shulhanava, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

    Sawmill workers Sukharko and Zhylnikau were accused of murdering three people, robbery and stealing documents.

    Alina Shulhanava, a nursery school teacher and former employee at the state-controlled youth organization BRSM, was charged with the organisation of causing a grievous bodily harm, which resulted in death, and preparation for abducting a person.

    The charges stem from two episodes that took place in December 2015 in Minsk. 27-year Alina Shulhanava failed to come to terms with the fact that her ex-boyfriend was dating another woman.

    Shulhanava hired Vyachaslau Sukharko and Alyaksandr Zhylnikau to threaten and beat the couple. However, the perpetrators went a bridge too far and killed them both.

    Immediately after their arrest, it became known that Sukharko and Zhylnikau were involved in another murder in the town of Kalodzishchy near Minsk.

    A 59-year-old man who let an apartment to one of the defendants turned out to be another victim.

    In March 2017, the Minsk City Court sentenced the two men to life imprisonment. However, on July 14, the Supreme Court sent the case for retrial.

    In January 2018, they were sentenced to death.

    The fate of Vyachaslau Sukharko is unknown at the moment. However, the record shows that the sentences passed on the defendants in the same case are carried out at the same point of time.

    Belarus remains the only country in Europe that still applies capital punishment.

    The West has repeatedly called on the Belarusian authorities to join a global moratorium as a first step towards the abolition of death penalty.

    The exact number of executions in Belarus is unknown, but local human rights defenders and journalists have worked tirelessly to uncover some information about death sentences and executions.

    According to the Ministry of Justice of Belarus, 245 people were sentenced to death from 1994 to 2014.

    Human rights NGOs believe that around 400 people have been executed since the country gained its independence in 1991; president Alyaksandr Lukashenka granted a pardon to only one convict.

    https://belsat.eu/en/news/just-befor...ed-in-belarus/
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    Alyaksandr Lukashenka should be executed just like Nicolae Ceaușescu was in 1989.

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    Man Sentenced To Death In Belarus

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    A man was sentenced to death in Belarus for killing a toddler, despite repeated calls by the European Union for the abolition of the capital punishment in the only European country that still carries out the death penalty.

    A court in the western city of Brest on October 25 found 47-year-old Viktar Syarhel and his codefendant, 26-year-old Natallya Kolb, guilty of murdering Kolb’s eight-month-old daughter in October last year.

    Kolb was sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum punishment for women in Belarus.

    Syarhel is the third Belarusian sentenced to death this year after 50-year-old Viktar Paulau received the death penalty in July for murdering two elderly women in December 2018.

    In January, 36-year-old Alyaksandr Asipovich was sentenced to death for killing two girls in 2018.

    For years, the EU has urged Belarus to join other countries in declaring a moratorium on capital punishment.

    According to rights organizations, some 400 people have been sentenced to death in Belarus since it gained independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/man-sentence.../30236668.html
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    On December 17, 2019, Belarus executed Alyaksandr Asipovich after being sentenced to death in January 2019 for the murder of two women in July 2018. Two others are awaiting execution, that of Viktar Paulau and Viktar Serhil. Paulau was turned down by the Supreme Court in November 2019.

    Three death sentences were handed down in Belarus and three have been executed. Belarus is the only country in Europe that dominates capital punishment in the modern day era. Four were executed throughout 2018.

    All death row prisoners who are awaiting execution are taken to the Minsk Detention Center. After all appeals have been rejected, the prisoner is taken to a room and blindfolded where the execution is about to take place at a specific time. The executioner, shoots the prisoner one time in the back of the head to ensure the death sentence has been carried out.
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