BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

29/11/2007

PACE President Calls On Belarus To Commute Three Death Sentences

Rene van der Linden, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has called on the Belarusian authorities to commute three death sentences to milder sentences, RFE/RL's Belarusian Service reported on November 28. A Belarusian court in 2006 sentenced Syarhey Marozau, Ihar Danchanka, and Valery Harbaty to death for running an organized crime group. Van der Linden also called on President Lukashenka to immediately place a moratorium on the death sentence. "The intention to introduce a moratorium on the death sentence and its future abolition are preconditions for joining PACE," van der Linden added. The Belarusian authorities recently executed Alyaksandr Syarheychyk, a former police officer sentenced to death for serial killings. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/11/3-cee/cee-291107.asp

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