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Belarus: Further information: Two men executed in Belarus
19 March 2012

Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavalyou have been executed in Belarus. The authorities should now release the bodies of the two men to their families for burial ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/003/2012

Belarus: Further information: Two could be executed in days in ...
16 March 2012

Two men on death row in Belarus, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavalyou, are likely to be executed within the next few days. The President has denied clemency ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/002/2012

Darfur: New weapons from China and Russia fuelling conflict ...
8 February 2012

A new report by Amnesty International highlights how arms sales from China and Russia fuel human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region.

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Belarus: Further information: Wife expresses fear for Andrei ...
30 January 2012

Belarusian prisoner of conscience, Andrei Sannikau, met with his wife for the first time in three months on 24 January 2012, when he told her that he had been tortured ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/001/2012

Over 250,000 people call on Belarus to end executions | Amnesty ...
9 December 2011

Amnesty International were turned away from delivering a global petition to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, calling for an end to executions in Belarus ...

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Belarus: Two men in Belarus at risk of execution
2 December 2011

The Belarusian authorities must not execute Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavalyou, who were sentenced to death on 30 November 2011, following a trial that has ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/025/2011

Abolish the death penalty | Amnesty International
1 December 2011

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Belarus: Two sentenced to death over Minsk metro bombing | Amnesty ...
30 November 2011

There are concerns the two men were ill-treated and forced to confess before facing a deeply flawed trial and death sentences.

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Belarus: Further information: Human rights defender sentenced ...
25 November 2011

A court in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, has handed down a sentence of four and a half years to human rights defender Ales Bialiatski. He is a prisoner of conscience ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/024/2011

Belarus activist conviction “politically motivated” | Amnesty ...
24 November 2011

Ales Bialiatski, head of the rights NGO Viasna, was sentenced to four and a half years for financial crimes after assisting detained activists.

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