In 2007 the world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of the capital punishment. A historical landmark is the resolution on a moratorium on executions ...
1) Africa: Mali; Nigeria; Tunisia 2) Americas: Guatemala; USA 3) Asia and Pacific: China; Indonesia; North Korea 4) Europe and Central Asia: Belarus 5) Middle East ...
1) UN votes for global moratorium on the death penalty; 2) Nigeria misleads world about executions; 3) Iran executes yet another child offender; 4) Japan executes ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 49/005/2008 (Public). 31 March 2008. Belarus: Demonstrators beaten during Freedom Day march. ...
Igor Koktysh is no longer at immediate risk of extradition from Ukraine to Belarus, where he could have been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment or the ...
Prisoner of conscience, Alyaksandr Kazulin, was granted temporary leave from the prison colony in Vitebsk, to attend the funeral of his wife, which took place on ...
On 22 February 2008, the Supreme Court of Belarus commuted the three-year prison sentence of Alyaksander Zdzvizhkou to three month, resulting in his immediate release ...
Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, ex-deputy editor of a weekly independent newspaper, whom ...