Over 250,000 people call on Belarus to end executions
11. Dezember 2011
Amnesty International News 9 December 2011
Amnesty International and Belarusian human rights organizations Viasna
and Belarus Helsinki Committee were today turned away from delivering a
global petition to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, calling
for an end to executions in Belarus.
Over 250,000 signatures
from all over the world were collected by Amnesty International’s
global membership and the Belarusian organizations. The petition, which
began as a local initiative, became a focus of Amnesty International’s
50th anniversary campaign against the death penalty.
Die belarussischen Behörden dürfen Dzimitry Kanavalau und Uladzslau
Kavalyou keinesfalls hinrichten. Die beiden Männer wurden am 30.
November nach einem Verfahren, das den internationalen Standards für
faire Prozesse nicht entsprochen hatte, zum Tode verurteilt.
Urgent Action: Two men in Belarus at risk of execution
11. Dezember 2011
Amnesty International 2 December 2011
The Belarusian authorities must not execute Dzmitry Kanavalau and
Uladzslau Kavalyou, who were sentenced to death on 30 November,
following a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial
standards.
Ein Gericht in der Hauptstadt Minsk hat den Menschenrechtsverteidiger
Ales Bialiatski zu viereinhalb Jahren Freiheitsentzug verurteilt.
Amnesty International betrachtet Ales Bialiatski als gewaltlosen
politischen Gefangenen, der unverzüglich und bedingungslos freigelassen
werden muss.
The Belarusian authorities must immediately release a prominent human
rights activist convicted today on politically motivated financial
charges, Amnesty International said today.
Ales Bialiatski,
head of the Human Rights Centre Viasna (Spring), was sentenced by a
court in Minsk to four and a half years for “concealment of income on a
large scale”.
Belarus: Jailed presidential candidate denied access to lawyer
11. Dezember 2011
Amnesty International 17 November 2011
The Belarusian authorities must immediately grant a jailed former
presidential candidate access to his lawyer, Amnesty International said
today after it emerged he had been subjected to the latest in a series
of unannounced prison transfers.
