Belarus: Death penalty: Igor Mirenkov

Index Number: EUR 49/003/1996
Date Published: 29 September 1996
Categories: Belarus, Europe And Central Asia

Fears that the above, sentenced to death on 9 August 1995, may be facing imminent execution have been heightened by an official statement that the death penalty is increasingly being used in Belarus and that President Lukashenko has not granted clemency to a single death row prisoner during his mandate.