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    Two convicted of metro bombing in Minsk and sentenced to death

    Despite a petition campaign and outrage across Europe, two Belarusian men have been sentenced to death for the April bombing of a Minsk metro station, which killed 15 and injured 200. According to Radio Free Europe, the two defendants, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou, were also found guilty of planning and implementing additional bombings, with Kanavalau the main culprit. The 114-page verdict said he planted the bomb in the metro and carried out two other attacks in Minsk and Vitebsk, the hometown of the 25-year-old factory workers and longtime friends. Kavalyou was convicted of assisting in the first two crimes.

    Many remain uncertain if the suspects were guilty of the crime, which some have also speculated could have been staged by the authorities as an excuse for a security crackdown. Kanavalau refused to make a final statement, while Kavalyou recanted earlier admissions he had made to investigators, saying neither he nor Kanavalau was responsible for the crimes. Critics of the trial pointed to the lack of physical evidence linking the men to the explosives, as well as the judge’s failure to call key witnesses.

    Belarus is the only European country to have the death penalty.

    Former Belarusian Supreme Soviet Chairman Mechislav Hryb told Radio Free Europe, “As a person, as a citizen, and as a jurist, I was the first to sign a letter appealing for a moratorium on the death penalty. I did this consciously because I have had practical experience to convince me that judicial mistakes do happen, a completely innocent person can be sentenced to death.”

    http://www.tol.org/client/article/22...tral-asia.html

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    I should probably post this in stupid news!

    Svetlana Chornaya continues hunger strike

    Svetlana Chornaya, a woman with second degree disability, continues hunger strike demanding to cancel death sentence to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou.

    Chornaya has been on hunger strike since November 30, when verdict in the terrorist attack case was delivered, “Narodnaya Volya” newspaper reports.

    We remind Minsk resident Svyatkana Chornaya went on hunger strike after Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou were found guilty of a number of grave crimes, including a blast in Minsk on Independence Day in 2008 and metro bombing on April 11, 2011 and sentenced to death penalty by the Supreme Court. The woman has doubts these persons are really guilty of the hideous crimes. She presented her position in a letter to Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

    The Presidential Administration has not responded to the letter.


    http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2011/12/21/46031/

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    Minsk metro bomber executed despite international protest

    One of the men convicted of carrying out a bombing attack on the Minsk metro last year has been executed, an independent Belarus news agency reported Saturday, quoting the man’s mother.

    The mother, Lyubov Kovaleva, told the Belapan agency she had received a letter from the supreme court informing her that her son, Vladislav Kovalev, 26, had been executed.

    There was no official confirmation of the execution, and the fate of the second man, Dmitry Konovalov, 26, remained unclear.

    On Thursday, President Aleksandr Lukashenko rejected final appeals for clemency, despite criticism of the way the trial was handled and opposition across Europe to the death penalty. On Friday, Germany put in an official appeal to stay the executions.

    Konovalov and Kovalev were found guilty of setting off a nail bomb in a metro station on April 11 last year. Fifteen people died and around 200 were injured.

    They were also found to have carried out bombing attacks in 2005 and 2008 that injured dozens. Prosecutors argued that the pair’s main motivation was a desire to set themselves above the law.

    Kovalev initially confessed but later withdrew his confession, saying it was extracted under duress.

    They were sentenced to death in November. By law, executions in Belarus – the only European country to retain the death penalty – are carried out with a shot to the back of the head.

    Belarus executed two convicts in 2011, according to data published by Amnesty International. Some 400 executions have been carried out in the country since 1991, according to the human rights organization.

    http://bikyamasr.com/62377/minsk-met...ional-protest/
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    A combination picture shows Vladislav Kovalyov, right, and Dmitry Konovalov sitting in a guarded cage during a court hearing in Minsk in this September 15 2011 file photo. Belarus has executed two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protests from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial, state news agency BelTA said on March 17.


    Belarus executes two men convicted in metro bombing

    Belarus has executed two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protests from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial.

    Belarussian news media reported Saturday that Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov, both 25, had been executed.

    Kovalyov and Konovalov were convicted in November of staging a bomb attack in a central Minsk metro station. The April 11 blast killed 15 people and wounded more than 100 others.

    President Alexander Lukashenko had refused to pardon the two, citing the gravity of the crime.

    Belarus is the only European country that still uses the death penalty. European leaders and rights groups had urged Minsk not to carry out the death sentences on the two factory workers, and they condemned the executions.

    European Union chief diplomat Catherine Ashton said Saturday "the two accused were not accorded due process including the right to defend themselves."

    The executions are likely to further strain relations between the former Soviet republic and the European Union.

    Mr. Lukashenko has ruled his country with an iron fist for almost 18 years, keeping it out of the European mainstream. Minsk's relations with Brussels have reached an all-time low after Mr. Lukashenko's launched a crackdown on political opposition following mass protests against his re-election in December 2010.

    http://www.sofiaecho.com/2012/03/18/...-metro-bombing
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    Documentary On Death Penalty Seized In Belarus

    Belarusian authorities have seized copies of a documentary film about the use of the death penalty in Belarus.

    Rights activists Viktar Sazonau and Uladzimer Khilmanovich from the western town of Hrodna said their car was searched at a Belarusian-Lithuanian border checkpoint on April 22 as they were returning from Vilnius.

    They said DVDs of the documentary, which was filmed recently in Lithuania, were confiscated.

    The documentary includes reports on recent executions in Belarus, which is the only European country that still conducts executions.

    Customs officials said the documentary should undergo what they called “a professional assessment” before being allowed to be shown in Belarus.

    The Belarusian regime has faced international criticism since the two men convicted of bombing the Minsk subway one year ago, killing 15, were executed in March by a single bullet to the back of the head.

    http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus.../24557015.html
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    Glad Belarus is sticking to their guns and not backing off from capital punishment!

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    Belarus sentences double murderer

    The Supreme Court of Belarus has confirmed the death sentence for a man convicted of killing two people last year after police caught him transporting a decapitated head from one of the bodies.

    Pavel Selyun, 23, was convicted of double murder and sentenced to death in June, and the sentence was confirmed Tuesday by the Supreme Court which reviewed Selyun's appeal to soften the punishment, the court's spokeswoman Maria Lappo said.

    Selyun was arrested in August 2012 on the train, where he was transporting the head of his male victim in a bag.

    Two days earlier he had killed the man in the city of Grodno, along with his own wife, apparently out of jealousy over their love affair. He stuffed the man's body into a trash chute and took the head along with him when he left town.

    Police had said that Selyun as well as his two victims were satanists. Selyun was eventually convicted of murder, desecration of a corpse, and theft.

    Belarus is the only country in Europe with the death penalty, administered through shooting the convict in the back of the neck. The sentence is usually carried out in secret.

    The country's hardline President Alexander Lukashenko issued a pardon to only one convict on death row in the past 20 years, in 1999. Selyun's sentence is the fourth known death sentence this year.

    http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Worl...er_907121.html
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    Belarusian Supreme Court Annuls Death Sentence In Murder Case

    In an unusual move, the Belarusian Supreme Court has annulled a death sentence in a murder case.

    Prominent human rights defender Andrey Paluda, who has followed the case, called the court's October 22 decision unprecedented.

    The court ruled that the case against Alyaksandr Hrunou must be reinvestigated due to procedural mistakes.

    Hrunou was found guilty of killing a young woman and sentenced to death in June.

    The Supreme Court's decision comes two weeks after the UN's special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, urged Minsk immediately introduce a moratorium on executions immediately.

    Three death sentences, including Hrunou's, were handed down by Belarusian courts this year.

    Five executions were held from 2010 to 2012.

    Belarus is the only country in Europe that retains the death penalty.

    http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus.../25145575.html
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    Activists Say Belarus Hiding Information On Death Penalties

    The Minsk regional court has said that a man it sentenced to death last month is a Moscow-born Belarusian national.

    The Minsk-based Vyasna (Spring) human rights center said earlier on December 17 that a Russian citizen, Eduard Lykov, 53, had been sentenced to death by the court on November 26 for killing five people.

    The coordinator of the Rights Defenders Against Capital Punishment in Belarus campaign, Andrey Paluda, told Vyasna on December 17 that the Lykov case was "obvious proof that the authorities in Belarus do not officially announce each case of the death penalty in the country."

    Belarus is the only European country to still carry out executions. Minsk said it executed three people last year.

    Lykov would join two other men who are currently on death row in Belarus.

    http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus.../25203870.html
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    Supreme Court upholds death sentence of murderer of Homel student

    Aliaksandr Hrunou, 25, will face the death penalty.

    On April 8, the Supreme Court of Belarus upheld the death sentence of the murderer of Natallia Yemelyanchykava, a student of Homel State University.

    Aliaksandr Hrunou received the death penalty on December 24, BelaPAN reports.

    The girl died in September 2013. Hrunou killed her a year after he had been released from prison for killing his mother's boyfriend. He died after brutal beating.

    The appeal was heard by the panel of judges at the open trial. The court decision was upheld.

    The only thing that can save Hrunou now is applying to Lukashenka for a pardon.

    The first death sentence against the murderer was delivered on June 14, 2013. It was overturned by the Supteme Court. The case was sent for a new hearing by the court of first instance.

    https://charter97.org/en/news/2014/4/8/93647/

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