Belarus: Death Penalty

Index Number: EUR 49/003/2002
Date Published: 6 March 2002
Categories: Belarus, Europe And Central Asia

Valery Ignatovich, Maksim Malik, Aleksey Guz and Sergei Savushkin are due to be sentenced at Minsk Regional Court in the Belarusian capital on 11 March. Should they be found guilty of several charges of abduction and murder, including that of Russian Public Television cameraman, Dmitry Zavadsky, who went missing in July 2000, they may face imminent execution.